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One Reporter's Opinion: Millions More, Illegals Galore George Putnam
It is this reporter's opinion that we have now reached the borderline of insanity as the Bush administration is contemplating granting amnesty to between 3 and 5 million illegal aliens! Giving large numbers of people who are unskilled, exploitable and dependent on taxpayers – people who have violated our sovereignty – an equal status as civilians, granted our immigration – legal and illegal – is insane!
Why further complicate the current sad state of affairs?
We've heard all the arguments that the illegals mow our lawns, bus our tables, wash our cars, clean our houses, work in the hotels – do the dirty work that Americans will not do. But as a child of the Depression, I can tell you that when it comes to making a living, Americans will perform any of these tasks and more! I remember working for a $1.00 a day in the fields of Minnesota – shocking, threshing and harvesting in temperatures of 120 degrees – just plain lucky to have any kind of work.
It's as simple as this: The Democrats want the votes of these new arrivals and the Republicans want the cheap labor.
What we are witnessing is the current U.S. immigration policy as a massive corporate welfare program, allowing corporations that rely on unskilled labor to keep their labor costs down.
Based on fiscal estimates developed by the National Academy of Sciences, it stated the lifetime net fiscal drain – taxes paid minus all services used – for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a negative $55,200. Mexican immigration acts as a subsidy to businesses that employ unskilled workers, holding down labor costs while you, the taxpayer, pick up the cost of providing services to a much larger low-income population. Like any subsidy, businesses that receive it want it to continue, but for this nation it's a BAD DEAL!
Recently Matt Wolfinbarger, a physics student at UCI, gave a convincing answer to the exploiters. Matt said, "The small benefits of reduced prices are greatly outweighed by lower wages and increased unemployment for the poor or higher taxes for the middle and upper classes." Matt asks, "What good are strawberries for 90 cents a pound to the average consumer when business benefiting from low labor costs, without paying benefits, pass on the cost of health care, housing and education to the same consumer in the form of taxes? Higher housing, education and health care costs more than cancel out the benefit of cheaper goods due to unskilled illegal labor."
Do George W. and his friends in Washington ever read the studies available – objective reports on the part of those who have lived this immigration fiasco on a day-to-day basis? Do they realize that illegal aliens are costing our state of California $5 billion a year? We've become a magnet for the unskilled that provide low-wage services in restaurants, fields and factories. Poverty remains pervasive.
We are suffering from totally uncontrolled immigration, with an estimated 800,000 a year coming across our southern border from Mexico to Arizona.
We need a complete re-evaluation of immigration, legal and illegal. It's time to face the dire results of massive, unskilled immigration and its effect on the native-born poor – disproportionately black, Latino and American Indian – unskilled immigrants competing for jobs with unskilled native-born Americans. The result: lower wages for the native-born poor and expanding the income gap between our rich and our poor.
What is the solution to this mess?
Wall Street, the ball is in your court! You love cheap labor.
At present, 70 percent of public school students in LA are Latino. The rest are a mix of Asian, black and a variety of others. The huge array of government services these newcomers expect and get are bankrupting the state! And if the population increase continues at this present rate, we will find ourselves at the level of a Third World nation. "Mexifornia" is only the beginning.
Virtually 100 percent of California's population explosion between 1990 and 2000 and continuing to the present is the result of the massive inflow of illegals and births, not from internal growth. According to U.S. Census Bureau figures, California grew from 29 million in 1990 to 34 million+ in 2000 – greater than the combined increase in population of all the northeastern states.
This ongoing problem demands a combination of border patrol and assimilation. But also, along with enforcement of our borders, we've got to eliminate all of the social welfare benefits that are attracting illegals to our country in the first place! This population growth is bringing traffic, pollution, overcrowded schools, lack of affordable housing and criminality as never before.
... and with all of this, the administration talks of amnesty for 3-5 million more. As if we needed more mouths to feed, more taxes to pay and more jobs to give away.
References
Irvine Review: June 2003 – U.S. Immigration Policy by Matt Wolfinbarger http://www.irvinereview.org/wolfinbarger1.htm
Creators Syndicate: June 2003 – Straight Talk About Immigration by Mona Charen – http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.
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