Apparently President Bush remains bitter that efforts to grant amnesty to 12 to 20 million illegal intruders was thwarted by overwhelming opposition from the American people.
At a town hall meeting in Nashville this past week, he stated that Americans will soon realize they need immigration and are "going to be knocking on people's doors saying, 'man, we're running out of workers.'"
At a town hall meeting in Nashville this past week, he stated that Americans will soon realize they need immigration and are "going to be knocking on people's doors saying, 'man, we're running out of workers.'"
No, Mr. President, the American people need one worker who will take seriously his constitutional responsibility to defend the borders of this nation. It is appalling to most of us that you refuse to secure those borders and enforce our laws until you get your way on legislation that would grant amnesty to law breakers, and encourage many more to follow in their wake. Were your job to look after the best interests of agri-business, we might understand your position; but your job is to look after the best interests of "we, the people."
Low-skilled workers without a high school diploma impose huge costs on the taxpayers. One third of all immigrants -- legal and illegal -- lack a high school diploma. A Heritage Foundation study has found that immigrants without a high school diploma will cost the taxpayers $3 for every $1 they pay in taxes. Over the course of a lifetime, one low-skilled household will cost the taxpayers $1.2 million. The amnesty bill that the President advocates would cost $2.6 trillion.
Immigrants with a college education will pay far more in taxes than they receive in benefits. Therefore, if the President were working for "we, the people," wouldn't he be creating incentives for highly skilled, college-educated workers from around the world to come to the United States?
Despite massive increases in spending for education, including a 35% increase in federal discretionary spending for elementary and secondary education during the Bush years, the US has a bumper crop of domestically produced high school dropouts. In many US cities approximately half of all students who enter high school drop out before obtaining a high school diploma. We don't need to import even more dropouts from Mexico.
