Consider an open border with Mexico
In addition, as the Mexican consul general in Oregon properly pointed out, if some Mexican citizens add to the cost of the Pendleton jail, other Mexican citizens also add to the revenue of the government there by working in the economy, earning and spending money and paying taxes. So as far as the county and the state are concerned, the money angle is probably a wash.
By "it's probably a wash" he means "I have done no research on this issue whatsoever and I can't cite a single piece of evidence to back up my absurd claim."
Actual studies backed up by facts on "the money angle"
Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget
Immigration Impact - Oregon
Notice how silly things like "footnotes" and actual "data" are used to prove a point rather than just silly claims of things being "a wash."
I can respect a well written opinion piece in opposition to my views but this one is just stupid. The author's name isn't listed but clearly he or she is not fit to use pen to write with as it is a sharp object and he/she could probably hurt himself/herself with it.
Send a letter to the editor about this
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"In a month-long investigation of Portland’s service industry in 2001, immigration agents review paperwork for 3,306 employees and discovered that 25 percent were illegal aliens"
Are these jobs that "Americans won't do"? If so, why are 75% of them held by non-illegal-aliens (aka, Americans)? However, the more important question is: why are a quarter of these jobs given to criminals?
daniel - it's a great and well-argued piece. plenty of research has been done; some sources in support of the argument can be found in a response I posted this morning to your mastercard spoof. These sources are far more objective than the ones you cite in this post. The 1997 volume by Smith and Edmonston was commissioned by the National Research Council. By contrast, CIS is widely recognized as an advocate of immigration reduction, despite its claim to non-partisianship. In academic circles, Camarato's work is seen as methodologically flimsy, and not capable of standing up to peer-review by other researchers. Same goes for FAIR, numbersusa, and other such outfits.
RE: Editorial
Has Hasso flipped out?
Dang. I seem to remember hanging around a day-labor pickup site in Cornelius not too long ago. As I recall, Daniel, you struck up a brief conversation with "Ron".
He had a problem with temp agencies - two, actually, as I recall:
(a) they paid minimum wage, and (b) they took out taxes.
Ron doesn't suffer these indignities as a day laborer.
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