Importing Poverty: Immigration and Poverty in the Unites States

The Heritage Foundation ^ | 10/25/06 | Robert Rector

[libertylovinactivist]

The National Academy of Sciences has estimated that each immigrant without a high school degree will cost U.S. taxpayers, on average, $89,000 over the course of his or her lifetime.[3] This is a net cost above the value of any taxes the immi­grant will pay and does not include the cost of educating the immigrant’s children, which U.S. taxpayers would also heavily subsidize.

In this way, the roughly six million legal immigrants without a high school diploma will impose a net cost of around a half-trillion dollars on U.S. taxpayers over their lifetimes.

[TomGuy]

An under-current on Capitol Hill seems to be that the Amnesty is not necessarily a done deal. Dems read the tea leaves and know which way the wind is blowing. They seem to know that, to retain power, they cannot push through this Amnesty.

So, Tony Snow's glee last Tuesday night and GW's glee at the presser last Wednesday at having a Congress he can work with to get a 'comprehensive immigration plan' may not be as easy as they had hoped.

[VOA]

The National Academy of Sciences has estimated that each
immigrant without a high school degree will cost U.S. taxpayers,
on average, $89,000 over the course of his or her lifetime.[3]

I PERSONALLY know one member of The National Academy of Sciences
that is very happy with the situation.
That cheap labor to landscape his house and keep his pool clean
is like a needle in the vein.

As far as I can tell, he'd keep running in more illegals so he
can get even cheaper labor.
Because all us taxpayers are suckers that subsidize the habit.

[ImpBill]

Living less than 3 miles from the Rio Grande River in Brownsville, TX, one doesn't have to read The Heritage Foundation to understand this.

[MNJohnnie]

And people were SO pissed off about this they ran to the polls and fired the ONLY people in DC, the US House Republican, who were serious about Border Security.

The irony of this would be wildly funny if the cosequences for out Country were not so serious.

[libertylovinactivist]

I agree. Gloomy as 11/7 was, it is true that many of the Dems who won ran on pro-life, pro-gun, pro-family and pro-secure borders platforms. It's not likely that they are going to become S.F. liberals. Also, their tenure in Congress could end up being very short if they fail to deliver to their constituents.

Just because many Dems have won doesn't necessarily translate to Bush getting his amnesty bill (S. 2611) passed. In fact, many Dems might not want to risk supporting any Bush initiatives which could easily backfire at re-election time.

We shall see.

[brytlea]

It's a shame (and I voted Republican, just in case anyone feels they need to say I did otherwise) but it was completely predictable. I'm not psychic and I said I thought it would happen.
susie

[Wormwood]

My favorite bit of GOP Cargo Cult thinking: any day now the vast Hispanic middle class will magically vote Republican because they can be swayed by the pied piper of social conservatism.

Meanwhile, millions of uneducated peasants are streaming into the country with their hands out.

Gosh, let's keep out fingers crossed that the permanent underclass cares more about gay marriage than government handouts.

[Between the Lines]

Sadly, until they start building colonias in non border states, the rest of the nation will remain ignorant to this.

[KTM rider]

I live in LA, almost EVERY street corner has mobs of eager illegal alien day workers,(god bless em) and every where you go you hear spanish, milk cartons are printed spanish on one side, I even saw a spanish TV ad on my primetime adcdef TV channel, The LA school system is 70% hispanic, I change lanes when I see something hanging from the mirror in the car behind me because mexis all have something hanging from the mirror and mexis don't do insurance......
The dam is breached, it doesn't matter what they do in congress now, all you can do is welcome the imported turd whirled ( hey at least they arent Islamics like in EU )

[wku man]

Bzzzzzzzz! Sorry...wrong again, Johnny Boy. According to Numbers USA, while 11.5% of Pubbies lost their House seats, only 6.7% of Tom Tancredo's reform caucus lost theirs. Sounds to me like those who are serious about doing something to stop the invasion lost at a lower rate than the RINOs as a whole.

So what flavor Kool-Aid is it tonight? Pubbie Punch? Bushberry? Rovesberry? Melman Melon?

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[ImpBill]

Love your tag line. Thanks.

[MarkL]

In pervious years, (legal) immigrants needed to be sponsored, in order to make sure that they would not become a drag on the finances of society. There were no social services available to them. It was terrific incentive to become productive and merge with the greater society, creating the strength of the "Melting Pot."

That's not how it is any more. But it's the way it needs to be done.

Mark

[GarySpFc]

And people were SO pissed off about this they ran to the polls and fired the ONLY people in DC, the US House Republican, who were serious about Border Security.
The irony of this would be wildly funny if the cosequences for out Country were not so serious.

Why the sudden shift on your part? Nobody pushed the amnesty part than you on FR prior to the election, but now you are spreading defeatest talk.

[c-b 1]

Living less than 3 miles from the Rio Grande River in Brownsville, TX, one doesn't have to read The Heritage Foundation to understand this.

I live 10 miles from the border in Soutwest Arizona, I too understand, without information from any outside source.

[ImpBill]

Yup, but I guess the information is needed in the non border states.

[therut]

I live in a rural area in the South.. Have lived here my whole life. Never have I seen a white power, black power etc type of attitude till today. Car in front at stop light had a large rearview window decal..BROWN POWER.

[c-b 1]

It looks that way. They better figgure it out quick, or they are going to have what we've got.

[BobS]

"In pervious years, (legal) immigrants needed to be sponsored"

Still the same. I know someone who was sponsored as a critical care and cardiac nurse by a hospital. 3 months for a work Visa. 6 months for a green card. She has degrees and passed the NCLEX exam. Starting pay = $80K. It's the 12-hour shifts that turn women off from nursing here. The same science all over the world.

And she is a person that has Portuguese words about illegal aliens running loose around here. It's worse than Brazil. She saw her local countries and I saw a lot of Europe. Massive migrations of people are not a healthy indicator for the future anywhere. That's when wars begin to start simmering. There is enough history in our 2-3 civilazitions to understand that they are going to happen again.

[staytrue]

According to Numbers USA, while 11.5% of Pubbies lost their House seats, only 6.7% of Tom Tancredo's reform caucus lost theirs.

GREAT NEWS. It will take less than 8 more elections like 2006 to completely eliminate the rinos infesting the republican party.