Thread: Shut Our Border To Illegal Aliens

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Shut Our Border To Illegal Aliens
By Michael Scott
MichNews.com
Dec 4, 2005

Let’s go back and review President Bush’s Tucson comments of earlier this week.

Finally the President found the huevos to acknowledge that the United States isn’t secure when we don't know who is entering our country. If millions of penniless illegal immigrants can walk across our borders annually, why can’t well-trained & financed terrorists do the same? I hope there are some immediate security action steps to follow his belated recognition of our wide-open frontiers.

Then Mr. Bush slid into catawampus warp by attempting to link Border security with “guest workers�; two issues that can only be linked through careful fact-finding and honest intellectual analysis. It’s an uncontestable reality, and a frightening security risk to delay implementing border security measures while debating and designing “guest worker� programs.

Saving American jobs for American citizens is vital to our national stability, particularly when these jobs are being performed by illegal immigrants. Unemployed/low-skilled Americans insure social instability and justifiable populace anger because of the malfeasance of a distant federal government that favors the welfare of company owners and illegal immigrants over their American counterparts.

No technologically advanced industrial nation like the U.S. that has 27 million illiterate adults and another 20-40 million adults who are marginally literate need have any fear about a shortage of unskilled workers. There are more than 8 million jobless Americans.

The real demand for illegal immigrant labor comes from unscrupulous employers who pay minimum or below legal wages to insure a never-ending supply of illegal aliens, while burdening the rest of society with obscene social costs. ($8.7 billion annually in California) Illegal immigrants act as subsidies to businesses that employ unskilled workers, holding down labor costs while taxpayers pick-up the costs of providing services to a much larger poor and low-income population. Illegal immigration is basically a subsidy for employers for which the cost falls on innocent American taxpayers.

It's a myth that Americans won't do hard labor. The truth is that Americans won't live two and three families in a garage, or 20 in a trailer, and suffer similar indignities just to sell their first-world labors at third-world levels. It’s bottom-of-the-barrel wage rates, not hard work, that American workers reject.

If there’s a bona-fide need for “guest workers�, the determinant must be made by individuals or organizations far-removed from the influences of Senator Kennedy and his lock-step buddies, as well as excluding all companies that have routinely broken our immigration laws by their incessant hiring of illegal aliens. If there’s truly a legitimate need for foreign workers because U.S. workers won’t do such work, -(for legal wages and within decent working environments), then iron-clad, incontestable verification procedures must be in-place to insure that Americans are given first shot at these unskilled jobs.

Regarding your comments concerning “expanded legal immigration�, - nanoo nanoo. I’m baffled why a nationally syndicated columnist isn’t bound by normally accepted rules of rational analysis in drafting position papers that are refuted by the facts; suggested policies that are clearly inimical to our national interests.

The fundamental goals of American immigration policies should serve the long term priorities of our nation. These goals logically ought to be the selection of those newcomers who can contribute the most to the welfare of the American nation. Instead of current priorities that seek to reunite families, (chain migration), we need to change our legal immigration policies to something like the Canadian point system where immigrants with the "human capital" most likely to benefit their new homeland are sent to the front of the queue. Under this scenario scientists are placed at the head of the line, while uneducated/unskilled aren’t considered

To highlight the foolishness and nonsensical nature of our current legal immigration selection programs, let’s turn to Harvard’s Professor Borjas, our nation’s foremost economic immigration expert, who points-to Mexico & Canada as what to do, and what not to do when selecting legal immigrants. The average Canadian legal immigrant has 13.8 years of schooling, and the average Mexican legal immigrant 7.6 years. The average Canadian legal immigrant earns 24 percent more than the average American, while the average Mexican legal immigrant earns 39 percent less. The average Mexican legal immigrant is 50% more likely than the average Canadian legal immigrant to end-up using some form of welfare, and the average Mexican legal immigrant has the highest school dropout rate in our nation.

In spite of the above, during this decade (DHS) 4,629,826 people became United States citizens. Of these new Americans, 890,953 were Mexicans, (19.2%) while 84,675(1.8%) were Canadians. Here’s prima-facie evidence of the wretched intellectual cunning that illustrates America’s no-goal immigration program. We urgently need to revamp our legal immigrant selection procedures to attract those with the greatest potential to benefit their new country.

In this vein, I’m dumbfounded why you are throwing easily obtained factual information out-the-window, in favor of a fact-less & defenseless agenda that’s so clearly inimical to the United States. What wrong with identifying the facts and then letting them speak for themselves?

The lynch-pin of U.S. work force efficiency is an educated and skilled workforce. Increases in productivity allow American companies to do more work with fewer employees, but pay more without spurring inflation. The economy benefits in the long run from labor shortages (or expenses) that encourage increased productivity and technological innovation, not from legions of educationally and technically deficient workers, - who are twice as likely as native-borns to go on welfare. The surging American economy is fueled by investments in computers, information technology, telecommunications, e-commerce, bioscience, robotics, mechanized factories, and other technologies that require a labor force comprised of highly educated people with marketable skills. In other words, bluntly speaking, we need less apricot pickers, busboys, gardeners, nannies, and more scientists and similarly skilled individuals.

What is it that precludes you from identifying the facts and letting them speak for themselves? Why do you advocate the continuation of importing millions of uneducated & unskilled over selecting those potential newcomers at the top of the skills/education rung?

So why not get serious & rational about the meaning of "a nation of immigrants". The last great waves of immigrants into the United States, around the turn of the 20th-Century, entered a country of less than 100 million people, not a crowded land of 297 million. There are vast and fundamental differences between an empty continent nation accepting the bulk of its immigrants in concert with prevailing demands for unskilled labor, from relatively developed countries, as was the case one-hundred years ago, contrasted with today’s practices of an increasingly crowded high-tech nation accepting the bulk of its newcomers, and their markedly lower levels of skills and education from underdeveloped countries, as is happening today. It's clear that we’ve gone from a late 19th-century nation of immigrants, to an early 21st-century nation of too many uneducated and unskilled immigrants.

It’s also clear that you’re going down the wrong path that leads to more national misery. Your positions on these issues are inexcusable & baffling. That notwithstanding Ms. Chavez, God bless you, - and God bless the horse you rode in on.

Great Article!!

But, I don't get the comment about "Ms. Chavez." Is that Linda Chavez, the Miss Love My President's Guest Worker Program Linda Chavez?

If so, I would prefer she mount her pony and ride right on out of heah!!