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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRick Santorum Says ‘Legal’ Immigrants Hurt ‘Native Born’ Americans
http://bluenationreview.com/santorum-legal-immigrants-hurt-native-born-americans/So when people tell me the problem is just illegal immigration, theyre wrong. Theyre wrong We are almost at the same level of non-native born in this country they were at in 1920. And in 1920 they realized, wait a minute, its affecting our workers Median income is going down. Why? Part of the reason is that were bringing floods of legal, not illegal, legal immigrants into the country.
I hate to burst Santorums bubble but, since 2009 the number of immigrants coming to the US has declined. Its down by 12.4 percent, according to the Department of Homeland Security....
Santorum, who would not be living or working in this country were it not for legal immigration, seems to be struggling with one of the most basic concept of the United States that we are a nation of immigrants.
Oh, and be sure to Google "santorum" early and often.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)"I got mine, FUCK YOU if you want yours now"
The last thing he is, by the way, is a KREESCHUN...
It god damn INFURIATES me to think he claims to be.
I know REAL christians, only a handful, and he aint one of em.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Aren't most of the immigrants that folks like Santorum get snooty about from South of the border? In which case they're probably a lot closer genetically to the folks called Native Americans than the pasty white European ancestors that no doubt inhabit Santorum's family tree. Prior to the last couple hundred years, there wasn't really a 'border' down there, and really, most of the folks who lived in what we call 'the southwest' were Natives or Hispanics.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)it would indeed tend to bring the median income down, as younger workers generally earn less than older workers. It also fills in the demographic gap in SS funding. What that frothy residue neglects to mention is that both of those facts are net positives for the economy as a whole.
outside
(70 posts)Silicon Valley Fights for Immigrant Talent.
The technology industrys most important legislative goal? Its to let the foreigners stay.
About half of science, technology, and engineering workers in Silicon Valley are foreign-born, compared to a quarter in the rest of the United States, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The technology industry, including FWD.us, a lobbying group launched in April by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, want a startup visa for entrepreneurs like Beckers who raise money from American investors, a simpler track for foreign science graduates to win residency, and, most controversially, an increase in the number of H-1Bs, the visas available to specialized temporary workers, from 65,000 to 110,000 per year.<snip>
The foreign-born engineers working with visas will work for less and are keeping wages low in that field. We also see this in oil and steel. Older American engineers are being pushed out and wages are dropping.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)a well paid lobbyist in the DC area and lives in a Va. exurb in Loudon County. I tell my PA friends in Pgh that I'm going to send him back there, but they'd glad to be rid of him, don't want him back. While living in NoVa he said that his kids were PA residents in order to get freer (online) schooling, so he cheated PA out of taxes and more. He's a worthless unending menace.
MiniMe
(21,718 posts)I'm sure that most people, and I am one of them, can only go back to my parents or grandparents. My grandparents came over to Ellis Island around 1920 or so, and it was my great grandparents on the other side. I guess that is at least better than Mitt, his father was born in Mexico.
dembotoz
(16,832 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)wages would go up because if more workers are needed, the business wouldn't expand. They couldn't. And they wouldn't raise the wages of the already existing workers because they can't expand. People like Santorum think work can be considered part of supply and demand just like a product.
Illegal immigration may hurt because those workers can't complain of violations of the wage and hour laws, etc. Legal ones can, so they would not "bring wages down."