Comments on: Don’t Fix Immigration, Fix the Welfare State http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/04/dont_fix_immigr.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: JohnDewey http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/04/dont_fix_immigr.html/comment-page-1#comment-2489 JohnDewey Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:38:45 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/04/dont_fix_immigr.html#comment-2489 <p>Matthew Brown,</p> <p>I'm not sure I agree that illegal immigrants are net consumers. But we can save that discussion. </p> <p>Can legislation eliminate all publuic costs for immigrants? In Plyler vs Doe (1982) the Supreme Court ruled that children of undocumented residents, even if not citizens themselves, must be provided schooling. </p> <p>Would U.S. voters support taking away emergency medical care from any resident in the United States? That support would be shaky after immigrants start dying in the street outside the emergency room door.</p> <p>Beyond schooling and medical care, what costs are being incurred by illegal immigrants?</p> Matthew Brown,

I’m not sure I agree that illegal immigrants are net consumers. But we can save that discussion.

Can legislation eliminate all publuic costs for immigrants? In Plyler vs Doe (1982) the Supreme Court ruled that children of undocumented residents, even if not citizens themselves, must be provided schooling.

Would U.S. voters support taking away emergency medical care from any resident in the United States? That support would be shaky after immigrants start dying in the street outside the emergency room door.

Beyond schooling and medical care, what costs are being incurred by illegal immigrants?

]]> By: Matthew Brown http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/04/dont_fix_immigr.html/comment-page-1#comment-2488 Matthew Brown Sun, 09 Apr 2006 23:58:57 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/04/dont_fix_immigr.html#comment-2488 <p>I think there's a good point you're making that the New Deal / welfare provisions turned immigrants from a net positive to a net loss, in national thinking. Before, immigrants were mostly upside - new workers, new consumers. After, they're a downside - new welfare recipients, new leeches.</p> <p>I do wonder how much support a well-worded bill/campaign to change things would get. Explained right, it might. </p> I think there’s a good point you’re making that the New Deal / welfare provisions turned immigrants from a net positive to a net loss, in national thinking. Before, immigrants were mostly upside – new workers, new consumers. After, they’re a downside – new welfare recipients, new leeches.

I do wonder how much support a well-worded bill/campaign to change things would get. Explained right, it might.

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