{"id":2292,"date":"2009-06-15T18:52:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T22:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2009-06-15T18:54:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T22:54:31","slug":"2292","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/15\/2292\/","title":{"rendered":"David Frum: Enforce immigration laws to solve the illegal immigration crisis&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The immigration problem gets bigger  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>The Center for American Progress, headed by former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta, has become the hottest Democratic think tank in a Democratic town. &#8212; Consider it an early warning signal of liberal assaults to come: While President Obama is directing the current battle, CAP is massing over the horizon for the next&#8230; <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Immigration confers a very small net benefit on the U.S. economy overall\u2014there&#8217;s not much dispute about that. That small net benefit is aggregated from a very large benefit to certain constituencies (primarily the immigrants themselves, but also upper-income earners and owners of capital assets) and a very large harm to other constituencies (primarily less-skilled, native-born workers). <\/p>\n<p>At the same time, current policies impose very large burdens on taxpayers, especially state and local taxpayers. Immigrants, being mostly low-paid, pay relatively little in taxes. They are, however, heavy consumers of health services, education services, roads and prisons. It&#8217;s been authoritatively estimated that current immigration policies cost every California household about $1,200 per year in higher state spending.<\/p>\n<p>Nor is there much disagreement that current policy allows longer-term problems to fester. The largest single group of immigrants to the U.S. comes from Mexico. While first-generation immigrants work very hard, second-generation immigrants manifest all kinds of ominous behaviors: very high out-of-wedlock birthrates, low high-school completion rates, and\u2014increasingly\u2014disturbing rates of crime. Even third- and fourth-generation Mexican immigrants attain surprisingly low educational levels<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  READ THE ENTIRE PIECE <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theweek.com\/article\/index\/97506\/The_immigration_problem_gets_bigger\">HERE<\/a> &#8211; then pass it around .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The immigration problem gets bigger The Center for American Progress, headed by former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta, has become the hottest Democratic think tank in a Democratic town. &#8212; Consider it an early warning signal of liberal assaults to come: While President Obama is directing the current battle, CAP is massing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}