New Imigration Reform

[Jester]

I disagree, and I vote. There is a very real limit to the number of immigrants that roads, schools, sewage, police, fire, and healthcare systems can absorb in a given period of time. As a resident of San Diego, I can clearly see that effect - we are definitely not very far from that point.

Like I said. There are social costs, and they must be accounted for. Trying to run your infrastructure on the cheap while also increasing your population is a recipe for disaster. But, then, nobody likes taxes.

I'm not sure how well the remittance thing is quantified, but I'm not going to vote for somebody who thinks "all those Mexican remittances will go to Japan and China... then return to the US centuries from now".

Money flowing from a 'community' the size of the US will return to the US very quickly. US dollars are used primarily to buy US products. (Maybe not directly, but fairly quickly.) The money that goes out finds its way back to the US much sooner than the more ethereal case of a small town's wal-mart increasing overall prosperity.

-Jester