Posted on 02/13/2008 7:25:53 AM PST by 3AngelaD
...America's broken immigration laws are hurting U.S. workers and overburdening our taxpayers. In 2006, America had 12 million illegal and 26 million legal immigrants. These 38 million immigrants total one-eighth of our population. A third of legal immigrants, and nearly two-thirds of illegal immigrants, haven't completed high school. Nine percent of American citizens aged 18-64 are without a high school degree....admitting large numbers of poorly educated immigrants reduces job prospects and wages for less-educated/skilled Americans. Between 2000 and 2005, jobless Americans without a high school degree increased by 2 million. During the same period, immigrants without high school degrees grew 1.5 million.
The large, disproportionately undereducated influx of immigrant workers has depressed wages for less-skilled/educated Americans. In the last 25 years, hourly wages for high school dropouts decreased 20 percent relative to inflation. For American high school graduates, they decreased 10 percent. African Americans have been particularly hard hit...Immigration accounted for a third of the jobs lost by African American high school dropouts over the last few decades.
Typically, pro-amnesty voices claim that illegal immigrants are needed because there aren't enough Americans to fill low-skill jobs. If this were true, then wages and employment rates for less skilled/educated American workers would rise as employers competed to hire them. Yet just the opposite has happened....
When illegal immigrants were removed from the Cruder poultry plant in Stillmore, Ga., wages increased significantly....
America's immigration policy has...heavily burdened taxpayers. In 1997, the National Academy of Sciences estimated that immigrant households consumed $20 billion more in public services than they paid in taxes annually. Adjusted for inflation and the current number of immigrants, this figure would be $40 billion...costs to taxpayers would triple if illegal aliens received amnesty and began to use services and pay taxes like legal immigrants with equivalent educations....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
None of them give a damn.
Open borders. Welfare state. A nation can choose one or the other - not both.
More inaccurate BS.
There are at least 20 million in this country. I'd bet under Bush, in the past 7 years, we went from that old number of 12 million to 20 million ((PLUS)) and counting.
Didn't someone say this guy has Hispanics/Mexicans in his family? Is there anyone out there that fails to see what is happening here?
This big-gov 12 million number is just more government BS.
John McCain does not want to hear you guys complaining about these wonderful people.
Quick, someone ping John McCain. He probably should be told about this :-)
Consequently, one must then ask what sort of allegiance does a citizen truly owe a government that has made a de facto abrogation by choosing to not upholding its duty to a nation's citizens?
Yes, time for a review seminar on the Social Contract.
When Duncan Hunter endorses John McCain will you change your mind? Or will you consider Hunter a “RINO”?
Ping.
Would you grow the hell up little girl.
With childish comments like that, it is you who needs to grow up. Care to actually address my post?
Why should I address your post? Your comment had nothing to do with the topic of the thread in the first place. Maybe you should go back to pretending you can play moderator and suggest banning people who don’t agree with you.
LOL
ping
How 'bout, "None of the above?"
It's similar to cities that continually try to help the homeless: The more they help, the more they get.
But until it hits home in their own household they still won't do anything more than bellyache at the pols on the TV set from their armchair.
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