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@TheUnderdog
So do immigrants, like when they are blood donors.
And they also take plenty of lives, crash cars, etc that would require a need for blood transfusions.
You're obsessed with blood donation lol.
That was done to make sure that the immigrants learn English. Granted, if we opened up our borders with the whole world, many of the immigrants would already know English since the English language is incredibly widespread amongst the world population. More people know English than the number that know Chinese(around 20%). Also, there is some instinctual assilimination that immigrants as a group already go through that would ensure that this number is over 20%. I say this because here is my line of thinking:-The US doesn't filter on the basis of religion. Despite that, immigrants from India are more likely to be Christian if they reside in the US (around 20%) than if they aren't immigrants (around 2%).I therefore think that if the US didn't filter on the basis of English proficiency, we would still get more English knowledge among the immigrants than random earthlings would present. Immigrants tend to in many respects emulate the country they immigrate too.
20% of the world's population speaks English. So, you want to open the borders to 99% of the world's population and hope that they actually speak the language?
Think of it more like this: if you let in 50 million Latin Americans into the Southwestern US, who all speak native Spanish, do you really expect them to learn English when they don't need to, and can meet all of their needs and live comfortably with other Spanish speakers? No, they only learn it when they need to and have the ability to.
There aren't that many areas in the US where this is the case. There are some, but not many. Most people in CA and TX know only English in terms of languages. Moreover, with open borders, people are mostly going to live in big metropolitan cities, far from the US border, and other immigrants would come so English would be used as a lingua franca and eventually as a primary language amongst the descendants of immigrants.
There aren't currently many areas of the US where you need to speak Spanish to get by, you are correct. But that is right now, when we have 1,000,000 immigrants per year. Now, if you let in 50x that from south of the border, that is obviously going to change. Not many cities that speak only Italian, German, or French in the US. You know why? Because we don't have 600,000 German speakers immigrating here every year.
A lebanese person and a Bolivian person having a kid will mean that the kid will easily learn ENglish and may be bilingual, but English would be their primary language.
How would they easily learn English if neither of their parents are proficient in the language? That is just silly.
Immigrants are more likely to own businesses than native born people.
They are also much more likely to strain the welfare system than native citizens.
And according to your very source, the quality of immigrant-owned businesses is worse:
Immigrant-owned firms have $435,000 in average annual sales and receipts,which is roughly 70 percent of the level of non-immigrant owned firms at$609,000. Examining the full distribution of sales reveals that 11.4 percent of iiiimmigrant firms have sales of $500,000 or more, which is similar to thepercentage of non-immigrant firms at this level.
4. Immigrant-owned businesses are slightly more likely to hire employees than arenon-immigrant owned businesses, however, they tend to hire fewer employees onaverage. Among immigrant owned businesses that hire employees these firms hirean average of 8.0 employees with an average payroll of $253,000. Employer firmsowned by non-immigrants hire an average of 11.9 employees with an averagepayroll of $429,000.
So, these immigrant-owned businesses employ less people on average, pay them less on average, and have lower sales (meaning less tax revenue and less benefit) on average.
Then why haven't we?
We haven't paid off the debt because of two reasons: we spend too much based on how much we tax. We generally lower taxes and raise spending. Also, we let in 1,000,000 immigrants every year and half of their households use welfare.
I'd abolish the income tax and replace it with a sales tax and a capitol gains tax. Anyone that buys anything for any reason would have to pay a tax on it. This applies to native born people and immigrants. I'd show them how to get good paying jobs with the education they have (there are so many jobs you can get with no college education, so hook the immigrants and anyone else who needs one with a job and they should be set). They also could own a business, creating jobs for many other people (which immigrants are more likely to do) and unemployment would plummet.
Not saying I think this is necessarily a good point, but it is true that sales taxes are regressive taxes, meaning they harm the poor and are lenient on the rich. That may hurt efforts to alleviate poverty, since the EITC (earned income tax credit) which is a tax credit for income tax has really been one of the best policies of helping lower poverty.
And unemployment is really a bad measure. It doesn't include people who aren't searching for work or those who are unemployed. You know what makes people stop searching for work? Immigrant laborers undercutting wages and making your labor near worthless.
