[rlmorel]

I think I absolutely am going to barf.

urp...urp...

[rocksblues]

"I think we're going to have to try to enforce our way out of the problem. And fail."

So according to this dickhead we have to allow the increasing drain on our resources.

[tennteacher]

Don’t we all get this? That once they are legal, they are no longer “low-wage” earners? I see unionization in their future a la UAW.

Lou Dobbs: We have NINE guest worker programs. Let’s use them if we need them.

[Fraxinus]

It would help if this clown could get his facts right.
Despite the heat emanating from the current debate on immigration, the proportion of foreign-born residents today approximates those in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, before the Great Depression, War World II and Cold War spawned policies to restrict entry to the country, Johnson said.

The main immigration restrictions were implemented immediately after the First World War (1926 IIRC), although several groups were restricted before this. These restrictions were not eased untill after the Second World War.

[VR-21]

What if, just what if our educational system actually educated our kids to fill those positions which require the "best and brightest."

What if, just what if we reformed our welfare system so that the legions of indolent parasites we have in this country would take what jobs there were or starve.

What if, just what if our elected representatives had some respect or even some compassion for the people who pay the freight in this country.

[DCPatriot]

Hallelujah!!!

[rlmorel]

I just did a little search on NewsMeat (campaign contributions; http://www.newsmeat.com/) for the people who serve on the board of “The Immigration Policy Center”.

I was soooo surprised at what I found.

Not.

All moonbats. The one in Texas gave to Republican candidates, but...Hutchison was one of them. Geez.

[DCPatriot]

Lord, this man writes for ME!

[hschliemann]

Immigration Issue Mismanaged, Expert Says

About 300 million experts here in the US alone.

[org.whodat]

On one hand, immigrant workers are needed to fill low-paying jobs U.S. society little values; on the other, they are needed to fill high-tech jobs that fuel the innovation that made the United States a world leader, he said.

I've got some really nice black bulls, and that sentence is their waste.

[Wuli]

“The number of immigrants now entering the country, some 800,000 to 900,000 in 2006, is not keeping pace with the number of jobs created: some 2.6 million last year.”

I see, our population of 2??/3?? millions is not expected to create any net new workers on its own??? Wrong. In fact, with 301 million people, our population does add 2.6 million people a year, on its own.

In fact current immigration levels are higher than “keeping pace” and, if just to be “keeping pace” could be slightly lower. Net U.S. natural population growth is about 2 million (births minus deaths), and with our demographics we are graduating more than 2.6 million high school seniors a year (that does not count the dropouts). http://www.collegeboard.com/highered/res/hel/hel.html#grads

[gubamyster]

ping

[Perchant]

The number of immigrants now entering the country, some 800,000 to 900,000 in 2006, is not keeping pace with the number of jobs created: some 2.6 million last year.

This is the big lie. The jobs are predicated on the expectation of the continuing existence of the modern day slave trade. Those jobs never really existed.

The example I have used to demonstrate this sophistry goes like this, "I want to create the worlds largest Persian rug factory in the US. I need one million Persians imported to my factories to craft these rugs. I am not being supplied with the workers to fill the jobs I have created.".

In reality, if there was 2.6 million new jobs created, the prospective employees number in the hundreds of millions right here in the US...the creator of the new job just needs to offer enough pay and benefits to coax workers away from their current jobs to got to work at the new jobs.

This is how workers' standard of living increases across the board. Other employers need to pay their employees more to keep them from moving to the newly created job.