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Originally posted by irseg
Agreed. In a true free market capitalist scenario, people should be able to immigrate freely. Problem is, we aren't fortunate enough to have that here in America-- it's a combination of capitalism and socialism. Immigrants come here because they can get "free" money, health care, education, and so on--paid for with money stolen from American taxpayers.
The ideal situation would be to ditch all the social programs and open the borders. People who want to come here to work and succeed on their own merits are more than welcome to do so. They are highly desirable. But the idiot freeloaders who just want to get something for nothing will no longer have any incentive to do so because we wouldn't have a nanny state government protecting them at the expense of productive people.
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I heard Bustamante quote the latest research which indicates that illegal immigrants pay more into the tax base than they use. This is an interesting twist on an old rationale. Usually its poor, black 'breeders' that are accused of leeching the system. I posit that lazy immigrants and ethnic minorities is a cultural myth. While conceding that you will find a few examples of abuse such cases are not the dominant drain on our public money.