The true cost to American taxpayers for low skilled immigrant workers
It should seem obvious to most Americans that the cost of low skilled immigrant workers is greater than the benefits offered by having an inexpensive head of lettuce in the grocery store. Having cheap tomatoes for your taco bell burrito is also a falsehood. The fact is that having the cheap immigrant labor in the USA is exactly the same as corporate America BORROWING money from your children. As Americans we should simply not tolerate such bad behavior as hiring undocumented workers as it is against the law.
The folks over at heritage.org have written a paper regarding the true costs to American taxpayers of the benefits received by low skilled immigrant workers versus the taxes paid, the long term cost in the form of automatic citizenship for children born to illegal immigrant parents, and the policy of granting automatic citizenship to parents of Instant Americans. You may ask, what is an instant American? In my dictionary an instant American is any child born in the USA whose parents are illegal immigrants. It is a longstanding policy of the USA to automatically grant citizenship to any child born on American soil regardless of the parents’ citizenship. As a consequence of this policy many immigrants are encouraged to enter the United States illegally so they may create an instant American as a path to citizenship. Once they have created their own instant American, this child, at the age of 21, currently has the right to petition for automatic citizenship for his parents thus creating new liabilities to welfare and Social Security. According to the heritage.org report the true cost for each low skilled worker entering America is a net loss of roughly $20,000 each year. Here’s a chart. The figures increase exponentially once the child’s parents reach retirement age. Those cheap tomatoes will cost the average US taxpayer about $40,000 in the future. We need to stop this now.
Many people believe the United States is a democracy. We’re really a democratic Republic. What this means is in a democratic fashion we elect representatives who in theory know better what we need than we do as average citizens. The new immigration bill before Congress at the present time is one of those situations where the representatives believe they know better than we do as average Americans. What they are really doing is simply telling us what we would like to hear while catering to the needs of corporate America at the expense of the American citizenry.
America is a nation of laws, if a person does not follow the rule of law there are consequences in the form of punishment. For example if you attempt to navigate the interstate at speeds in excess of the posted speed limit, you can expect that the law will be enforced and you will be detained and issued a ticket for your violation. Unfortunately, at the Federal level, we seem to have a rather spotty record of enforcing laws in a consistent manner.
It should seem obvious that we have enough laws in place for immigration and that the issue is not actually immigration itself. The issue at hand is the obligation of the Federal government to protect our borders and enforce existing immigration laws. It should also seem obvious that if we cannot keep three million illegal immigrants from entering our country we certainly cannot keep terrorists from entering our country. So what should we do? As Americans we should insist that no new legislation be passed until the existing legislation is enforced in a consistent manner and enforcement of our borders is realized. It is a fundamental function of the Federal government to protect and enforce our borders as this is a job that individual states would not be able to do except within the bounds of their own borders. The failure of the U.S. government to protect our borders in an effective manner clearly indicates our lack of sovereignty. The United States appears to be the welfare agency of the majority of central and South American countries. While America has always desired to have good relations with our southern neighbors it has reached a point of abuse. This abuse is a condition which the average elected representative does not see on a daily basis. It is certain there are no senators who, upon entering a burger king and attempting to order a number two meal, have had the person at the register fail to recognize and understand what was said. It’s also certain that no senator has ever asked to speak to the manager of a burger king restaurant and been told “everybody speaks Spanish, you better get used to it”. I can certainly order a number two meal in Spanish- however I do not live in a Spanish speaking nation. I do not believe that people who are here as guest workers or people who are here to become Americans should force their values and their language upon their host. The very fact that the many of the newest wave of immigrants to the United States are not assimilating is in fact changing the USA into the very third world nation which they seek to escape. The subjugation of English as language of the United States may seem to be merely an annoyance as many of us do speak more than one language-the reason for this illustration is not simply the matter of the annoyance itself, but rather to illustrate the indignant right and expectation of entitlement that are southern neighbors are currently expressing. At some point there may be more Mexicans in America than in Mexico-so perhaps America should consider a course of annexation for the Mexican nation as they fail to enforce their borders as well. One forgets in the course of this discussion that there are two sides to each border. Our neighbors to the north in Canada do not seem to have the same border enforcement issues that are neighbors to the south have.
What can Americans do?
- Contact your senator and express your opinion very loudly regarding enforcement of existing laws and protecting our sovereignty -a nation at war which cannot control its borders has lost any conflict whether the conflict exists directly at the borders or not.
- Wait for your elected representatives to do the right thing. For example, the annexation of Mexico solves the problem permanently and ultimately gives the USA a much smaller border to the south. We are already at war so expanding the scope to include those who are actively supporting an invasion of our nation does not seem unreasonable.
- Move to the European Union and forget about being American; skip that idea, due to immigration quotas you probably will not be allowed to move to most EU countries, although I hear Sweden is accepting many of the casualties of our war on terror. Forget about migrating to Canada too unless you have lots of education and money.
One thing is clear to me; Canadians and EU residents get more respect than Americans. I wonder why? Is it because they enforce their borders better than the USA or is it because they enforce their laws?