Letter to the editor published in the White County News by DIS friend (and mine)Nick Nickerson
Friday , January 18, 2007
Immigration is bringing country down
To the Editor:
It’s probably politically incorrect, but don’t we have enough poverty in America now without having to import it?
Offered here are some facts that our mainstream media fail to report since they’re too busy keeping up with Britney.
The Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) recently completed a report on the impact of immigration. Immigrants, both legal and illegal, now total 37.9 million people. This number, or 12.6 percent of the total population, or one person in eight, constitutes the highest percentage of foreign-born residents since the end of the previous great wave of immigration in the 1920s.
More immigrants arrived in the seven-year period between 2000 and 2007 (10.3 million) than during any other seven-year interval in U.S. history. Please notice most of this period is after our supposed wake-up call known as 9/11. Approximately one-third of the 37.9 million foreign-born are illegal aliens.
The poverty rate of immigrant-headed households and their U.S.-born children (17 percent) is almost 50 percent higher than that for natives and their children. Thirty-three percent of immigrant-headed households receive support from at least one welfare program, compared with 13 percent of native families.
Thirty-four percent of immigrants have no health insurance, compared with 13 percent of natives.
Aside from the above cited CIS report, it is said that for each child born to illegal immigrant households, it cost us, the taxpayers, $10,000 per year, every year for services rendered: education, medical etc.
That’s enough statistics for now. Suffice it to say, and it should be obvious, that America needs first-aid now, meaning “stop the bleeding first”.
We must immediately secure our borders- build the fence- and start enforcing laws that are already on the books. Does this mean rounding up millions of illegal aliens all at once?
No, it means “attrition through enforcement”- with equal application of the law to all citizens.
As much as my Christian values say to not turn away a stranger, they also do not say that we must flood America with poverty-stricken ignorant cultures- foreign to our forefather’s traditions. Sorry, but all cultures are not equal.
Christian values teach that we must love and be responsible for those closest to us first. We cannot expend finite resources on strangers to the detriment of those we hold close and dearest to us- our wives, children, parents, brothers and sisters, neighbors,
Yes, fellow U.S. legal citizens.
Question for President George W. Bush: How many illegal aliens do you currently have living in your White House bedroom?
What to do? Call your U.S. Representative. Call your Senators. Write a letter.
Why? Because you do not want it on your conscience that while your country went down the tubes, you stood by and did nothing.
Nick Nickerson
Cleveland