Saturday, July 19, 2008
Bad timing for good book - The Denver Post
I am AGAINST illegal immigration. I'm NOT against LEGAL immigration.
That being said; I think ALL immigration should be controlled. If you consider America as a ship, it is only prudent to control who gets on. After all, the captain must provide food and services for the passengers. No matter what it's size, a ship cannot handle an unlimited amount of passengers. We should all be intelligent enough to understand that.
We are that intelligent, aren't we?...
That being said; I think ALL immigration should be controlled. If you consider America as a ship, it is only prudent to control who gets on. After all, the captain must provide food and services for the passengers. No matter what it's size, a ship cannot handle an unlimited amount of passengers. We should all be intelligent enough to understand that.
We are that intelligent, aren't we?...
Al Knight discusses a new book by Mark Krikorian at DenverPost.com:
"The book has its share of statistics. One of them ought to shock even those who think they know everything about immigration. Krikorian writes, "Fully one-third of all the people ever to move to the United States, starting from the first Siberian to cross the Bering land bridge in search of game, have arrived since 1965."
His book is a record of how this mass immigration policy began and what it has produced. He details the impact on the public education system, showing that nearly all of the the more recent increases in enrollment are traceable to immigration. He demonstrates the impact on health care, that about one-quarter of the uninsured in America are immigrants or their children. Because U.S. law mandates that no emergency room may turn away a needy patient, such rooms are closing at an alarming rate. In Los Angeles alone, some 60 hospitals have closed their emergency rooms in the last decade.
The book is packed with useful information. There is material on the justice system, national security, the labor market, the media and a full account of how the Mexican government has managed to become an important player in domestic policies once considered absolutely off-limits to a foreign power."
