By
Joe Nocera
There are a lot of things you can say about the Trump Administration’s recently announced deportation plan. You can say it is cruel, a policy that could only come from a president who lacks a heart. You can say it has more to do with President Donald Trump’s fevered imagination than the reality of the immigrant presence in the U.S. You can say that it's counterproductive, likely to uproot the very people this country should embrace — people who have struggled to get to the U.S. with the goal of working hard and making a better life for themselves and their children.
But if Trump is able to get the money from Congress to hire the 10,000 additional immigration cops and 5,000 more border agents he wants, if he gets local sheriff’s departments to help the federal government round up undocumented immigrants, and if he does indeed begin to deport hundreds of thousands, and perhaps millions, of them, then I think you’ll be able to say something else about his policy: It will be economic suicide.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-24/trump-s-deportation-plan-is-an-economic-death-wish
I didn't have to read any further than this.... the fifth paragraph....to know what this 'piece' is. It's bullcrap.
“We’re really near full employment, and are likely facing a tight labor market for the next decade or so,” said Donald Grimes, a senior research specialist at the University of Michigan. “The only place firms are going to be able to find workers will be migrants.”
Ninety-plus million Americans are not in the workforce .... yet this author claims 'near full employment'? Lies, lies and more lies coming from the idiot left.... tsk tsk.
Too bad there are enough stuckonstupid, low information citizens out there that will believe it... because they want to believe it.
What is committing national suicide.... is continuing to import more and more immigrants into the country that will end up on the US welfare system. Immigrants that won't make enough to pay taxes into the system, and wouldn't even if they did make enough. Add to that the Earned Income Tax Credit where many of these folks can get money back that they never paid in, and you have a recipe for a bankrupt nation. It ain't rocket science.
Finally, if America gets a reputation for being hostile to immigrants — or if the Trump administration pares back the various routes to legal immigration -- it might well scare off the highly educated, highly skilled immigrants who have, for instance, helped make Silicon Valley such a font of innovation. No more Sergey Brins. No more Andy Groves. No more Elon Musks.
Where, exactly, did Trump ever claim intent to 'pare back routes to LEGAL immigration'? More BS.
The point is: America doesn’t need fewer undocumented immigrants. It needs more of them. The economy depends on it.
Uh....no. America needs legal, documented immigrants.....
not more illegals. Let's call it what it is, not the politically correct version. Illegal is illegal, no matter how you try to spin and slant it.
