High cost of immigration

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 2/14/03 | John Dougherty

[Republic of Texas]

For all the immigration apologists who claim illegal immigrants contribute more than they take.

[Republic of Texas]

bttt

[junta]

The illusion that we have borders is falling away as fast as the American citizen is beginning to realize their importance in having any nation at all.

[Republic of Texas]

Absolutely. We are fools to waste time securing a peaceful democracy in Iraq, if we don't protect our own borders at home.

[SCalGal]

ping

[janetgreen]

Thanks for posting this article. In California we bear a huge burden because our President wants to import poverty, and our state is going broke, yet there is NO mention in the liberal rags of the huge cost of immigration, legal and illegal. This subject is never mentioned by our stupid governor, and the pro-immigration bleeding hearts are preaching on a daily basis.

Repeated letters to the ?senators and ?representatives go unanswered. Simply stated, we're being outnumbered.

[Republic of Texas]

The same thing is happening in Texas, but I think Calif. is about 10 years ahead of us on the stupid/liberal/PC meter. Even conservative Texas is being slowly overwhelmed by liberals, and immigrants who want to facilitate a socialist government in this country.

[janetgreen]

Yes, and it has been an absolute eye-opener to me and other conservatives here (there actually are some of us) that a Republican? President would do this to us. Despite some of his other policies that I have agreed with, this one huge issue of unlimited immigration will prevent me from voting for him again, or for any other politician who agrees with him on this.

[JimRed]

FAIR says "we are admitting over 1 million mostly poor people into our society every year – a society that is already challenged to deal with the poverty of its natives."

While I agree strongly with FAIR's position on immigration, I take exception to invoking "the poverty of its natives". Poverty in the U.S. is primarily behavioral. Doing your best in school (even a poor one), being an honest and willing worker, staying clean and sober, continuing to upgrade your skills and education through life and being willing to relocate for work virtually guarantees your escape from poverty. There's no guarantee you'll get rich that way, but you'll be better off than 90% of the worlds population.

These are the very things that attract the "good" immigrants here (so the RATS in the senate can filibuster them).

[JimRed]

OOPs, I forgot: < /rant>

[skeeter]

For all the immigration apologists who claim illegal immigrants contribute more than they take.

I hope you aren't waiting for those apologists to show up here...

[Digger]

Are you FReepers starting to understand that your man in Washington has NO intentions of changing this- in fact he may accelerate it. Does it not bother you that these borders are wide open? Do you now see that this "Two-Party Cartel" Has NO intentions of protecting us. The international elites have highjacked our government & only when you vote outside of this group will we be the true winners.

[gubamyster]

The most recent estimates, the group says, place costs of immigration – legal and otherwise – at $61 billion in 2000 alone. And before the chorus of "immigrant rights" groups counter that "even illegal immigrants pay taxes," this mammoth figure represents costs after immigrants' tax contributions are factored in. Indeed, legal immigrants are more expensive – they account for $35 billion of that figure.

[Joe Hadenuf]

bttt

[drunknsage]

And yet another reason to round em up and ship em back. If it wasnt for the U.S. economy Mexico would totally go under. Think about how much money is leached out of our economy and wired to people in Mexico. When I used to wait tables in a small restaraunt in the Houston area most of the busers were Mexican. They would send half their paychecks home every week. To people up north there isn't a problem. They dont have to wait in line at local hospitals behind illegal's that arent going to pay. They arent concerned with the issue of people that cannot properly communicate because they dont know English. It's about time for someone to do something.

Drunknsage

[maranatha]

There was a news article around Christmas about immigrants (legal or illegal?) send about 2 billion dollars a year back to Mexico.

[MissAmericanPie]

"We are fools to waste time securing a peaceful democracy in Iraq, if we don't protect our own borders at home."

bears repeating

[MissAmericanPie]

Make that 9 billion a year out of the US economy and into the Mexican economy yearly. We have a one party system and it's not pro-American citizen.

[Joe Hadenuf]

The beat goes on......

[Afronaut]

This thread will die like the rest of these Immigration threads.

There is cool-aid that has NEVER been matched in the history of the U.S. going around and the FR has the biggest cup. This situation is here to stay. If anyone every gets a platform for this issue he will be labeled a racist and he will be demonized so bad that no one will every open their mouth again.