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Immigrants: Can't Live With Them? Study Says America Can't Thrive Without Them

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If you watch Fox News you know that illegal immigrants are really the reason our economy has been in the dumps. They suck up government benefits like leaches at a blood convention, they pop out anchor babies and, to top it all off, they commit mad crime.

Securing the border has been a top priority even under the socialist President Obama, even as reports indicate that the undocumented contribute a net gain to our economy, illegal immigration from Mexico has slowed to a trickle, and crime is down along the border.

And now this:


A new report from the Partnership for a New American Economy, a bipartisan group that counts L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg among its supporters, says we need ... more immigrants.

Wait, what?

We thought they were the problem. According to a summary of the report (PDF) America is facing ...

... A shortage of workers in innovation industries, a shortage of young workers and slow rates of business startup and job creation.

Um. We're confused.

Well, a lot of these wanted immigrants aren't your average Mexicans hitchhiking to L.A.

The United States, it seems, needs engineers and other nerds. Because we don't make geeks like we used to:

As jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) increase three times faster than other jobs, there are not enough American students entering these fields.

But wait: We do need Mexicans too, it would seem. The service industry is going to be begging for help as baby boomers retire, which is right about now:

The U.S. also faces a shortage of workers as baby boomers retire en masse, and growth in the labor force slows to historic lows of less than one percent.

The Juan percent to the rescue, again.

[@dennisjromero / djromero@laweekly.com / @LAWeeklyNews]


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Armando Cedillo
Armando Cedillo

That's right - Los Angeles needs MORE people, MORE density and MORE traffic. The service industry just can't get enough Latinos with 1.2 GPAs dropping out of our high schools and reproducing themselves for lack of anything other ambition. Our beaches can't get enough litter, our citizens can't get enough of hearing "Press 1 for English" in their own country. The United States needs MORE poverty, a LARGER carbon footprint and LESS fresh water. Open the floodgates now! 

Dave Francis
Dave Francis

 

The loversof the illegal immigration are ganging-up against Alabama, as they have withArizona, Georgia, South Carolina, Utah, Florida and others in the mix. The GOPelites, hard core liberals, Democrats certainly have their ’feet to the Fire’now as the majority of the American people are not going to give in to thisfinancial irrationality. Illegal aliens and their friends in Washington canprotest all they like, but TEA PARTY people have had enough of several decadesof incompetent administrations and the astronomical costs associated with this unspokeninvasion. The TEA PARTY constituent plans are resounding throughout our countryand are not about to give away, to ultra left anti-American socialistic ideasthat we ought to be the payee for anybody who arrives in our lands.  All that money should be spent on our ownpeople for schools, for medical, for all the LEGAL POPULATION, no matter theirrace, religion or color.  If foreignerswant respect enter through the same door as every person LEGALLY comes here anddon’t ask for handouts? If it wasn’t for pro-sovereignty organization as theHeritage Foundation, NumbersUSA, Alipac, Center for Immigration Studies,Judicial Watch, American Patrol, F.A.I.R and so many more, our nation would be headingfor total disaster.

 

If it wasn’tfor these outspoken groups over the years, the regular public would beharnessed in a dark place and knowing nothing of the truth, with the morons inCongress passing any bill they like and we would be even more suffocated, withnon-English speaking foreigners and their children and a completelyuncontrollable mass of poverty stricken humanity by the millions surging here. Thousandsof Americans being victims to criminal illegal aliens, our roads and highwayswould be awash with American blood.  Almost each day without fail, some U.S. familyhas been mowed down by some drunken driver, who is here illegally. There is avery high crime rate amongst foreign nationals, which covers a whole spectrumof nefarious acts.

 

California,Nevada and some of the unauthorized havens are enraged now, as thousands ofwelfare illegal aliens are fleeing Alabama and heading to the Western states.  California is probably the most overtaxedstate in the union and is now contending with a 16 billion dollar deficit,brought upon them by freely giving those welfare handouts.

 

Thepro-Constitutional TEA PARTY is beginning to show their strength in numbers, asincumbents are losing their seats. Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana lost hisentrenched place, to a Tea Party State Treasurer Mourdock, who is displayinghis mettle, by stating that he will fight to secure our borders and ensure thattaxpayer dollars are only spent on those legally allowed to live in thisnation.  Lugar had a extensive record offighting aggressively for amnesty for illegal immigrants and was a primarysponsor of the DREAM ACT, which would have fast-tracked amnesty for millions ofillegal immigrant offspring, plus chain family migration nationwide. Theliberal Democrats have a campaign to undermine the TEA PARTY membership, whichthe political group is fading away, when actual fact is the numbers areclimbing into the millions. Do you want to fight to keep more of your tax moneybeing confiscated in continually coddling either the 20 million plus illegallyimmigrants settled here, or the millions more that still locate a way in slippinginto America.

Join yourlocal Tea Party and unseat all the tired incumbents and elect fresh Tea Partyleadership. Remove all Senators and House Representatives, who are pro-illegalimmigration corrupted by the special interest groups. We should start with aclean slate and investigate the current records of bad politicians-both federaland state at the web site of ALIPAC.

 

SCRUTINIZE BOTH PARTIES AS THEY HAVETHEIR OWN RANCID AGENDAS? REPUBLICANS CHEAP LABOR!  DEMOCRATS MORE VOTERS! FURTHER WITH THEONCOMING ELECTIONS IN FULL SWING, WE SHOULD BE WARNED THAT NON CITIZENS AREVOTING AND WILL VOTE IN FEDERAL, STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. THE ONLYWAY TO PREVENT FRAUDULENT VOTING, WILL NOT COME AS NO SURPRISE IS THE EPICENTEROF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND ONLY THE ISSUANCE OF A FREE GOVERNMENT PICTURE IDWILL OUR DEMOCRACY FREE FROM VOTER FRAUD?

Sam Infusia
Sam Infusia

And by the way dennis, you don't have to watch fox news to know that illegals are leeches. 

Dennis Romero
Dennis Romero

Hell yeah, Sam. The guys who washed your dishes the last time you were at a restaurant are sucking you dry. But I tell you what, if you want to mow my lawn for $25 next week you got it. I'll even take pictures and post a story.

leo mann
leo mann

loves me some latinos but let's keep it real here, dennis. During the housing boom "they" were getting 20-30 bucks an hour in various construction trades. There is always a need for immigrants but the reality is we are undergoing a full blown tsunami of mexican citizens coming here and disrespecting the US. $25 for your lawn? I'm game but we both know La Raza will do it for $20. Just sayin'

Sam Infusia
Sam Infusia

seriously? 

It's a deal!

Sam Infusia
Sam Infusia

Honestly, Dennis, I don't think you want me knowin' where you livin'.

I'm about az crazy as it gets. Really. But I do disagree with your assertion that the only jobs illegals take away from us law-abiding US citizens are dishwashers or lawn mowing; we could look at the construction industry, for one example. Journalistic integrity would mean remaining unbiased, but why even go there.

As you are an employee of LA Weekly, your comments make it clearly evident that LA Weekly supports illegal immigration. I wonder if all of YOUR advertisers know that LA WEEKLY is in favor of illegal immigration?

Dennis Romero
Dennis Romero

My email address is at the bottom of the story.

Sam Infusia
Sam Infusia

Cut off all services and resources for illegals and as they go away, our economy will slowly begin to improve.

Bob Crossman
Bob Crossman

There is a difference between LEGAL IMMIGRATION and ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. Legal = Good for America, Illegal = Bad for America. 

Dennis Romero
Dennis Romero

So just remember that next time you eat any fruits or vegetables. In fact, if you want avoid any contribution to the bad kind of immigration -- and I don't blame you -- the only way to be sure is stop eating entirely.

Paul Steven
Paul Steven

 You can burritos, a clean restroom, and hotel room to that list too.  We take far to much to granted...sure, lets kick out all the wet backs, what happens next?  We import almost all of out stuff stuffs.  Food prices will styrocket.  we loose.

augustoperez
augustoperez

Villaraigosa and Bloomberg are both Democrats...And while jobs are cropping faster than grads, we have a lot of unemployed and underemployed STEM workers who are UNEMPLOYED because they were displaced by insourced visa workers from India and other places like that.

We need to boot out illegal aliens, reduce legal immigration to the point that wages keep pace with other financial statistics so that profits don't just go to the 1%ers who benefit from the throttling back of wages created by cheap immigrant labor.

With the economy the way it is and its going, the only place boomers will retire to is a cementery.

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