What do you think about this:
America does not have a vast labor shortage that requires waves of low-wage immigrants to alleviate; in fact, unemployment among unskilled workers is high—about 30 percent. Moreover, many of the unskilled, uneducated workers now journeying here labor, like Velasquez, in shrinking industries, where they force out native workers, and many others work in industries where the availability of cheap workers has led businesses to suspend investment in new technologies that would make them less labor-intensive.
Yet while these workers add little to our economy, they come at great cost, because they are not economic abstractions but human beings, with their own culture and ideas—often at odds with our own. Increasing numbers of them arrive with little education and none of the skills necessary to succeed in a modern economy. Many may wind up stuck on our lowest economic rungs, where they will rely on something that immigrants of other generations didn’t have: a vast U.S. welfare and social-services apparatus that has enormously amplified the cost of immigration. Just as welfare reform and other policies are helping to shrink America’s underclass by weaning people off such social programs, we are importing a new, foreign-born underclass. As famed free-market economist Milton Friedman puts it: “It’s just obvious that you can’t have free immigration and a welfare state.”
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Its pretty obvious...the only way to fix this is by destroying the demand. Bust those who are providing jobs to the illegal immigrants, and they will go back to Mexico. Combined with my plan I made public a few months ago, game, and things work out quite well. Most importantly, if you want to change something, you need to start at the top. Which is to say, employers.
I agree...
I still want actual inforcement of our immigration policies and a nice big wall
Scorpion says---
Sometime someone should interview and speak to legal immigrants the real immigrants who
want to be in this country correctly or are in the process of
being an American the right way.It
is really interesting to hear this
viewpoint,and what is thought of those who aren't doing it the way it was always meant to be done.
The problem is not the immigration, but the welfare state.
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