the biggest problem with immigration is it does increase the us population faster then the economy. if they employers need labor the welfare and unimployment systems need to be exhousted before imigrant labor. also wages must support “cost of living”. massive profits wont be possible in a workable system.

MYTH: America has “uncontrolled” and “unprecedented” immigration.

While the immigrant population is the highest it’s ever been in absolute numbers, it isn’t so when compared to the equally increasing total U.S. population. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the percentage of immigrants has fluctuated within 5-15% of the U.S. population. As of 2006, immigrants are 12% of the U.S. population. (U.S. Census Bureau, “Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-born Population of the United States: 1850-1990.” February 1999, and Pew Hispanic Center, “A Statistical Portrait of the Foreign-Born Population at Mid-Decade.” October 2006)

I have to laugh when I see people defend our poor teenagers without jobs. The reality is, we have raised a generation without work ethics that thinks service with a smile should come with a 401K and a company car.

We need immigration reform. As a conservative, I was proud to see most conservatives voted with me in nominating John McCain and rejecting other hostile candidates. Sadly, once red states turned blue - coincidentally where the immigration rhetoric and raids have been most bitter: Virginia and Iowa, to name a couple.

Consider the world as a whole. Voluntary and involuntary slavery co-exist as long as human exist. Mercy is the hope to ease the pain. There is no cure but applying the pain-killer.

The problem with Diana Furchtgott-Roth’s proposal is that, as a “former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor,” the DOL would be based their decision from the “globalist ivory tower’ that utterly disregards the impact of H-1b on U.S. workers.

First Diana slimes the stats to make it appear that the H-1b impact is statistically insignificant. The “tech sector” impacted by H-1b is comprised of only about 3,600,000 workers. Over the past 6 years over 600,000 H-1b workers have flooded into this sector, displacing hundreds of thousands qualified American tech workers out of their professions. The largest users of H-1b are Indian consulting firms that, by bringing in H-1b labor at 25% below market wages, are able under-big U.S. consulting firms for public and private sector contracts.

Why does Diana not address this? By reforming the H-1b program to only be used in cases when “no qualified Americans are available,” the 65,000 cap would never be reached, and her arguments would be moot.

The testimonials at http://www.HireAmericansFirst.org support this harm by H-1b.

Given the massive tech and financial (that employ IT workers) over this year, the only quota that makes any sense in SUSPEND THE H-1B PROGRAM until the economy and job market recover.

As president of the Programmers Guild I challenge Diana to a debate on this issue. Meanwhile get the facts at our website.

immigrant workers, especially mexican ones, lower the bar, they work longer and harder for less, they are akin to wal-mart for small business’s. why hire an American when you can hire 5 Mexicans who will work twice as hard because their economy is worse. I am a reasonable accepting person who holds no prejudice, this is simply how it is.

in the case of Mexico, they are one of the poorest countries in the world. right next door to the richest. if you have ever crossed the border you know that it goes from rosy American houses and well paved streets to complete desolation and poverty, within 100ft.

if we only give them the incentive to come here and solve their problems, Mexico will not only remain poverty stricken, but will loose more and more of it’s population and flood our country with desperate and uneducated people, some of whom can’t or even refuse to learn english.

i say bolster the borders.
this is not 1880, we are full and our cities are rife with gangs and poverty. there aren’t enough jobs right now, and to change immigrant law according to unemployment rates is quite frankly absurd, it would be like a sick game of red light green light.

so for now, keep the red light on.

as a side note, the “jobs nobody wants to do” comment is insulting to people who do these jobs, some people don’t want the crazy go go lifestyle and only want to work out a modest living and be free.

THE AMERICAN OUTRAGE!

If you want to see how far the “immigrants” have reached into our society, just look at all the organization that have been invented to help the poor “immigrant” while ignoring America’s resident poor. Even the veterans have been betrayed by these collaborators who look after their own.

Since when has the majority of the poor become Hispanic/Latino/Mexican or any of the other phrases designed with the sole purpose of creating another catagory to feed.

Let the fact show that Mexico has a population that is less than 2% of the population of the World, that if you took all of what is considered Latin America, it still wouldn’t amount to more than 8% of the World population. These are UN statistics.

Yet , the longer we allow these people to cross our borders, the more corrupt and evil our own society becomes. Mexico has admitted that they can no longer control the drug gangs in their country and these people use our borders as a revolving door.

Our economy is in serious trouble due to all the resources that leave our country undercover of “money sent home” by “poor hard working immigrants”. Billions and billions of dollars that could have proped up this sagging economy are missing. Gone south of the border.

The only solution is to cut off all aid to the countries where these “immigrants” are from and hold those countries responsible for their own people’s action when on this side of the border.

Next, remove all funding of “immigrant” groups and their collaborators on this side of the border.

I was shocked to learn how much help our own religious organizations give these infiltrators. A 2008 Annual Report of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development showed tens of thousands of dollars being funneled to organizations that help only Latino immigrants. I checked further on the earlier years of this report to discover that this practice has been going on for years. As if no American poor existed.

One of those organization boasted on how they managed to raise the $7/ hour rate for day labor to $13/ hour. This is no longer cheap labor as immigrant groups always wave under the nose of businesses.

Charity begins at home! I propose that our US government start showing loyalty to those families who fought for this country. That American families of veterans come first. That “FEED AMERICANS FIRST” be a pledge that the US show it’s citizens before one dollar is spent on foreigners.

I thought the first Thanksgiving was because the native indians saved the early settlers from famine and starvation, not because of a plentiful harvest.

The argument presented here argues that immigration has only 1 goal: to benefit employers by keeping labor costs down, and therefore by induction, benefitting the economy as a corollary.

No other country in the world practices an immigration policy like this.

This is why we need change. It’s absolutely immoral to purely benefit employers at the expense of workers and labor.

Adam is right on the money. The ability of businesses to employ illegals for cash has to somehow be stopped. Those workers are completely off the radar, provide no direct benefit to the US tax base, and - along with any dependents present - are a financial strain to our health care facilities and public school systems. Except for subsistence, most of their money will go back to relatives in their home country.
While it is unfortunate that a majority of illegals are only trying to make a living - they have knowingly violated the law and should NOT BE GIVEN CONSIDERATION for permanent residence or citizenship simply because there is a LONG LINE of people who are already waiting for adjudication. Those people have followed the letter of the law, filled out the forms, in some cases - paid for professional assistance to handle their requests…..so you are going to look at them and say “well, we have a huge illegal immigrant problem and we’ll fix it by granting status/citizenship to that group while you folks will just have to wait longer until your paperwork clears”. That is clearly rewarding bad behavior!!

Look at the economies in your border states, they are overloaded with both illigals and the drain they cause on our system. California where I live in ready to file bankrupty. The hospitals and schools and jails are full of illegals at the taxpayers expense. The TERMINATOR is trying to raise Californians taxes to cover these expenses while citizens in construction and other simililar fields are losing their jobs to cheap illegal labor. You cant tell me that a man or woman watching their family go hungry and homeless will not do these more MENIAL, UNWANTED JOBS to keep his or her family in their home. Bleeding hearts like the one who wrote this article should stop pushing their FALSE bleeding heart agendas and think about taking care of their own. There is no reason those south of the border should come up here for work, a lot of our business is now in their homeland. What they should do is stay in their own country and fight for reform to push out the corrupt officials and make THEIR HOMELAND a better place.