Immigration
Do you think we have traffic problems today? Just think about that number increasing by 50%! That is what will eventually happen because our door is so widely open to legalized immigration. Last year we admitted over 900,000 legal immigrants and an estimated 275,000 illegal ones. Estimated that in the year 2050 our population will be 519 million which is 97% greater than today! But this condition isn't inevitable. It is a mess that we are creating for ourselves that could be changed by more selective immigration and immigration caps. We should lower immigration and we can do that while still admitting important workers workers, some refugees and immediate family members. So why don't we do this? Congress took a good look at making a move in that direction in 1996 but receeded when they realized a bunch of immigrant advocacy groups and big businesses were doing everything in th
As taxpayers, our cost for the education of immigrants' children is over $30 billion a year. Between 1988 and 1992, alien college students received $1. From 1997 the school population has grown from 49 million to 55 million--because of immigration. This condition drives up costs of housing and scarces it at the same time. SCHOOLING- Immigrants are overwhelming our school systems. The suggested reduction from 1,200,000 to 100,000 legal immigrants per year is not an aruable number. But the entrance of any number of immigrants over 100,000 places additional unacceptable burdens on American taxpayers, minorities, and the poor, homeless, and unemployed. population growth between 1993 and 2050 will be due to immigrants and their children. A September, 1994 CBS/New York Times poll showed that 63% of those surveyed favor reduction in legal immigration. America is now the world's greatest debtor nation. A five-year period is very realistic. Of course those groups benefit from large amounts of immigration. The United States simply cannot afford to continue to accept almost half of the world's immigrants. If immigration levels stay the same or become greater, most of these multibillion dollar costs would continue to come from taxpayers money.
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