Comments on: Jane Galt on Immigration

By: Tony Boyce

Tony Boyce — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:45:29 +0000

Bob's point is a valid one. When my ancestors came to the US, you had to be able to speak english or learn it. Nowadays, we have materials written in their native language that cost millions of dollars to produce.

Look at California's election forms, they are written in how many different languages? The money wasted could be better used for the state services.

The government must enforce the current immigration laws and shut down the boarders until we have in place a system for migrant workers to be here leagally. I have no problem with folks comming over here to make a new life for themselves, however one must do it leagally. Ellis Island long ago was the spot where immigrants stopped off and was processed for entry into this country. Currently, there is no central spot for immigrants to be processed which leads to massive confusion. INS has no clue as to who is here legally or illegally.

By: John Carroll

John Carroll — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:07:19 +0000

Isn't Sweden an example of the situation Milton Friedman talks about?

Will not legalizing the current tens of millions and continuing to import tens of millions more from the Third World be an economic catastrophe for the Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, all the other entitlement programs, hospitals, school systems, law enforcement, and especially we taxpayers who are forced to pay for all this?

With the addition of these tens of millions budding multiculturalists, will we not then begin to look like dying Europe?

By: Rick Caird

Rick Caird — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:23:03 +0000

When you get around to doing this, please incorporate the Milton Friedman admonition:

"You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state."

Hmmm, maybe it is different this time.

Rick

By: Dave Moelling

Dave Moelling — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:36:38 +0000

I do a fair amount of work in Mexico consulting at Power Plants. As in all my travels around the world, everyone eventually gets around to asking for help to get to the US. If not for themselves then for a son or relative. Mexicans know the problem in Mexico is the culture. Not the music/food part of culture, but the social hierarchy. Those who come to the US want to be American to escape this. That's what my german ancestors did emigrating to Missouri. You could still go to the German School until WWI, but they did not bring over the aristocratic class structure that still exists today in Germany.

The problem seems to be the scale of the immigration and a perceived lack of control.

By: Bob Smith

Bob Smith — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:03:25 +0000

The difference between then and now is that the Irish and Italians weren’t being bombarded by multiculturalism in the schools and propagandized by organizations like La Raza and MEChA, all of whom teach non-integration and divided loyalties. Specifically, they’re trying to destroy the “melting pot” by teaching loyalty to one’s clan, race, or sect before loyalty to the United States. That is, tribalism. Just look at stories about the 300-some different “graduation ceremonies” at UCLA. I know what the Democrats get out of this: multiculturalism leads to making everything a government-mediated tribal spoils system, which they of course want to “control”. I put control in quotes because in countries that actually have such systems, nobody is in control. Constant war, always political and frequently violent, over the division of spoils is the order of the day.