Thread: Five Reasons Why US Immigration Should Be Stopped Immediate

Immigration is a tough issue to take on. A sacred right it seems that no one, most especially any one single member of Congress, is willing to address. Yet it’s impact on the United States is staggering. From employment, to the environment, to infrastructure, education…you name it, immigration takes its toll. To be sure, there are many positive benefits to a rigid immigration system that allows for individuals to come to the United Sates and bring with them desperately needed skills. Today however we have programs like the “Diversity Lotteryâ€

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I totally agree with the idea of having a temporary moratorium even on legal immigration. The whole immigration system is such a mess. We definitely need a lot of reform, just not Gutierrze or Schumer's type of reform.

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[b]America desperately needs an immigration time-out. Here are five reasons why immigration to the US must be temporarily halted immediately.

1. With 14 million unemployed Americans in the worst recession since the great depression we cannot afford the luxury of adding 1.5 million new workers and their families each year. Until the US stabilizes its economy and finds work for the existing citizens and permanent residents, it has no business allowing more immigrants to settle here.

2. According to 2008 US Census Bureau projections America will grow from 308 million people to 400 million people in 2040. That is a 33% increase in population in just 30 years and per a Pew Research study, 82% of it comes from immigration and births to immigrants. That is a number equivalent to the entire population of the western US today, added in just 30 years. The drain on infrastructure and impact on education is enormous particularly in California where we must construct a new school every single day in perpetuity just to handle the influx of children to legal and illegal immigrants.

3. It is not just infrastructure that is impacted but the environment also takes a big hit. In a world gone mad over Global Warming the last thing we should be doing is increasing everyone’s carbon footprint. Right? Yet according to a study conducted by Californians for Population Stabilization, immigrants to the US quickly become Americanized and their carbon emissions skyrocket (see video below). The result is a quadrupling of immigrants' carbon footprint compared to the amount of carbon emissions they produced in their home countries. California is quickly becoming an environmental nightmare and while immigrants should not be blamed entirely for this, every bit of impact needs to be reviewed and analyzed before more people are added.

4. Economics is another area for review. Are immigrants, both legal and illegal a net gain or net drain on the economy? Statistics seem to suggest that immigrants, at least initially, are indeed an expense to the taxpayer. At one time, immigrants needed to prove they had a job and a means to support themselves and their families. We need a return to those policies.

5. Stabilizing the population of the United States and in particular states like California needs to be a primary concern for all Americans. This state is broke. It got here by taxing the daylights out of its working citizens and giving the money to people whom either shouldn’t be here or should be paying their own way. Unchecked population growth is not only irresponsible it is downright dangerous to those who live and work here.

Immigration to the United States is not right, though it seems there are many who believe it is. Their political motivations couldn’t be more clear. Every immigrant that comes into the country, legal or illegal, will one day vote for the politicians and the party that brought them here or gives them the most free stuff. How else can you explain the outright unwillingness by members of Congress to address this issue. You have to answer the question: Who Benefits? Those who are paying for the goodies will continue to lose.

The answer is an immigration “time-outâ€