Diane said (May 15, 2015):

Henry, when you add up free food stamps, free medicaid, housing assistance,free education, prison cost, the salary, benefits and retirement costs of the public unions, the cost of the illegals exceeds what they contribute to the US Treasury by over $300 billion a year. Sure the hierarchy in the housing and agriculture industry get cheaper, socialized labor but at what cost to the rest of us - i.e. more debt higher taxes, fees, wage deflation, higher inflation that destroys our shrinking buying power. Most of the Dems that like this are multi millionaires such as Reed and Pelosi or wealthy corporate Republicans like Jeb that are getting richer off this economically unsustainable practice.

Name one country in history that borrowed its way out of debt while laying off its productive workers and importing impoverished and unemployed people Republicons or Damacrats it doesn't matter, the 1% own both parties and have done better under Phoneybama then they did under Dufus Bush.

Henry, it's funny when people often tell me we the USA need a third party. I always pause for a moment and after looking backwards as I have when looking forward the last 40 years, tell them we need a second party first.

CR said (May 14, 2015):

One aspect of the immigration debate that seems to be largely overlooked is the effect on the countries that people are leaving. What happens when all the middle class and/or educated people leave? Sure, they might send some money home to relatives or friends but the end result is not good.

In Jamaica, 80% of university graduates leave the country. In Haiti, almost anyone with any money left after the earthquake. How do you think things are there now? The vast majority of people are functionally illiterate and have no formal training in anything. Crime is rampant. Things that these countries used to produce are now imported. The end result: more people trying to make money to leave the country, IMF loans, and NGO's controlling everything (in Haiti).

I work with a Haitian woman who left after the earthquake. She and her husband sold their house and had to pay the Canadian government basically all their money (around $13,000 Canadian) to be given permanent resident status. She says she would have been happy to stay in Haiti but life had become unbearable at that time, partly due to a massive crime wave involving constant robberies, kidnappings, and murders after all the prisoners were let go.

Rather than helping a few people who make it to our "rich countries", wouldn't it make more sense to try and help people in their own countries so that they don't have to come here and beg for help while things get even worse back home?

George said (May 14, 2015):

The immigration article is obviously correct as far as it goes. But there is another dimension. The populations of industrialized countries are aging. That means more people on pensions, some of them, such as bureaucratic government pensions, very lavish. The tax base to support those pensions is crashing, largely due to the falling earnings expectations of the young because of the shifting of the world's economic center to Asia, coupled with free trade, outsourcing, and the collapse of on-site retailing, among other factors. The solution is simple. Get rid of the useless eaters and demanding American youth though the slow-acting poisons of vaccinations, bring in a new stock of foreign cheap labor as the bottom layer of the Ponzi scheme, and profits soar as wages and pensions plunge. The problem is that while the destructive part of this agenda is working fine, the illegals are running up massive expenses of their own, refusing to pay taxes or shoulder any of the burdens of citizenship, and are shipping a large part of their earnings back home.

Al Thompson said (May 14, 2015):

I'm not sure this immigration issue is that complicated. I have a theory about it that I haven't seen expressed anywhere else. There has been approximately 40-50 million abortions in the United States since the late sixties and early seventies. This is enough abortions to cause a problem in with low population levels.

Aborted babies don't pay any taxes so then the intake of the government has to be grossly affected. However, immigrants will pay into the system when they find work. This could help to bolster Social Security and give the govtards even more money in income tax.

Some people say that peoople are "monetized". That each person has a cash value when they enter the system. Aborted babies never enter the system. By government supporting the idea of abortions, it inadvertently destroyed a part of its own cash cow. Aborted babies don't pay income tax; immigrants will.

My guess, and it is only a guess, is that the immigration is simply making up for the loss of population by reason of abortions. I don't think the "globalists" thought this one through. A small population will reap a small return in finances.

Can I prove it? No. But the reason they may be doing this is to benefit their own pocket book, and it has nothing to do with altruism. The old saying holds true to this day: "Follow the money."

I suppose I'm getting cynical in my old age. Governments are artificial entities with the power to steal. If you or I did this on our own, we'd be in prison. Yet, if the govtards do it, then it's okay. Government is a very destructive force and causes most of the problems for mankind.