-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <27d58da7c4bee6ce203bf0ba25b3005a@anon.efga.org>, on 11/20/97 at 11:36 AM, Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org> said:
William H. Geiger III, well known Nativist (if not Native) American, writes: > In <199711192035.VAA20768@basement.replay.com>, on 11/19/97 > at 09:35 PM, Anonymous <nobody@REPLAY.COM> said:
Actually, many studies have found that immigrants, legal and illegal, make a net positive contribution to the economy, even considering their access to government services.
Yes and 4 out of 5 doctors in an independent study prefer Buffren. Would you care to back this up with some actual facts.
From the Cato Institute, a well known libertarian think tank, http://www.cato.org/dailys/4-22-97.html:
Myth number four: Immigrants impose a financial burden on taxpayers. Immigrants do make somewhat heavier use of means-tested welfare programs than natives. There have been especially flagrant abuses by immigrants of particular welfare programs, such as Supplemental Security Income. But because immigrants tend to come to the United States during the start of their working years --between the ages of 18 and 35 -- they make very large net contributions to the two largest income transfer programs: Social Security and Medicare. When the payroll tax contributions of immigrants are taken into account, the Urban Institute found that the foreign born constitute a net fiscal windfall to the public sector of some $20 billion a year. To the extent that welfare use by immigrants is a problem, this can be addressed by restricting the welfare eligibility of immigrants, not by keeping immigrants out.
More details can be found by searching for "immigration" on www.cato.org.
You should have done your research better. This report by the Cato Institute based on a report by the Urban Institute is based on *Legal* Immigrants.
Studies that report a decline in immigrant income and education levels often referred to as immigrant "quality" fail to take into account the fact that U.S. census data do not differentiate by immigration status. Legal immigrants, refugees and illegal immigrants are all included in U.S. censuses. But refugees and illegal immigrants have tended to be poorer and less educated on average than other immigrants.
In after reviewing the some of the documents at the Urban Institute web site http://www.urban.org I would hardly call them a libertarian orginization. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNHSyK49Co1n+aLhhAQGb0gP+KpRAill+gZOcWULQrNDOXuxaJIVCkDdY Vqf6YjMbMQKmBSQQV1un+FHWOrFr4uN2UtXuVuHoc2xfbikt7gwoC7RDX2aBHGuH K+iohgyzfWWSHWEesP0jSoHpmckAniENqy10lW07p/BDpZEe9xS+v6OpXTdLWSaU ze5Ne5Mk98s= =Xm3E -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----