Thread: The World Won't Be Aging Gracefully. Just the Opposite.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...010202231.html

I tried to post this, but the commenting is not working.

"Immigration is a part of our culture, but we cannot sustain ever increasing immigration / population growth. Our population growth would be close to zero without immigration.

The land cannot sustain it and nor will our common culture.

Some will argue that we do not currently have the highest percentage of foreign born citizens historically. That is correct. We have about 10% foreign born now, vs. 14% max back at the beginning of the last century. But there are some big differences between now and then.

Back in the early 1900s the country was less crowded, people would spread out to new, unpopulated states, start farms, become productive on the land. Also most came from europe, the land where many others, except africans (forcibly) came from.

Now we have immigration from all over the globe. Not a bad thing, but we have too much immigration. We now have over 300 million in this country versus less than 100 million in 1900. Our land cannot sustain ever increasing amounts of people. Our land is not as fertile as india, which does have a higher population density. If we continue our current immigration rates of greater than 2 million in each year (net in total = new citizens, green cards, illegals minus departures) our infrastructure will be overused (look at the minnesota bridge, its happening), and our culture will be strained to integrate so many people from so many different cultures at once, will retaining our founding principles of democracy, free markets (ok we already gave up on that one), self-reliance and free-speech.

To the commenter from india - yes it is hard to get certain visas to the US, but 2/3rds or 3/4ths of immigration is not skills based its family preference based! So about 500,000 people each year become citizens of this country not because they have any skills we need or they really like our culture - they just have a relative here. Now I think we should end this type of immigration which is unfair. Lets let immediate family come in (husbands, wives, children), but its not fair that cousins get to come in for that reason alone just because they have a distant relative here.

Cut out illegal immigration, cut out the unfair family based immigration and we are left with about 400,000 people a year for immediate family and skills based immigration and refugee based asylum.

I think thats a fair immigration policy for american citizens, for our land and our culture. It respects immigration and continues it while cutting out the immigration which is not fair and does not benefit everyone.

I encourage everyone to take a closer look at immigration in the USA and think hard about what is fair for everyone.

www.numbersusa.com"

does this nut realize we LEGALLY accepted over a Million people in 2007 and an even higher number in 2008

go smoke some more crack... matter of fact move to Mexico to get you closer to your supply lines

the number I stated do not even include all of the VISA's

I refuse to accept any Illegal Alien .. None ... it is time for the criminal Politicians to go on trial

Illegal and legal Immigration

This is more of the same kind of insanity that has left the American people bankrupt. We do not have the resources to financially support all the immigrants legal or otherwise that want to take advantage of our country. And besides that, why should we pay for ilegals in particular?

The problems that the illegals bring to the American people are far greater than any benefit we get from them. "We the people" are being treated like the American Indians were treated in that we are being sadistically squeezed off their own land and paying via our tax dollars the very perpetrators who have created the crisis. The American people are being forced to dig their own braves.

Concerning illegals.

The groups that benefit from being in our country, are the illegals, their home country, their familes and children, coporations that pay them under the table and stick the American people with the costs of welfare, education, health care and housing for illegals. And of course, the Democractic party that wants to have a one-party system and as we have witnesses the Democrats are banking on the illegals voting them and their party into office, as this demographic explodes. The Democrats have virtually "kissed off" the American people in favor of illegals.

About Immigration
It is our country, and we should only take in the best and brightest that can help build our country instead of the leeches that suck us dry. At this point, we need use a combination of strategies, enforce our laws, send illegals and their "anchor babies" packing through attrition. And sop all immigration until our country has time to recover.