That is from an opinion piece stated by an advocacy group. Now let us take a look at current day reports:
The current Administration has flung open the doors for the poverty stricken, poorly educated, low skilled, disease carrying, mentally impaired and criminal populations of Central America to flood into the United States, and is now handing over $4.38 BILLION IN CASH to the flood of foreigners swarming our border, and that handout is in addition to the Biden Administration housing the surge of foreigners flooding into our country from Central America in expensive hotels at taxpayer expense! See: Biden is spending $86 million on hotel rooms for migrants as his administration struggles to handle the surge of families and kids trying to come to the US
March 20, 2021
“The latest decision to secure hotel rooms comes as the US is seeing the biggest surge of migrants at the border in decades, pacing towards a potential 2 million migrants at the US-Mexico border this year, The Washington Post reported. The surge is putting a heavy strain on government resources and border towns.”
And let us not forget how the children of illegal entrants are overburdening our public school systems and the children of American taxpaying citizens are paying the price. See: US schools — and students — will pay a price for Biden’s open borders for minors
March 16, 2021
"Their education will cost thousands of dollars a year more than for the average student because they’ll need linguistic experts, tutors, psychological counseling, vaccinations and other support.
*They’ll also consume most of a classroom teacher’s attention, leaving the rest of the class to make do with less. *
Even so, only 66 percent of students without English skills ever graduate.
They will struggle, but so will our own kids. This migration wave is hitting schools just as they’re reopening after the pandemic. Students have missed an entire year of school activities."
It is also important to point out how our prisons are filling with criminal aliens let into our country. See: One in five US prison inmates is a ‘criminal alien’
" For starters, 91 percent of federal criminal aliens were citizens of Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Colombia or Guatemala.
There were more than 730,000 criminal aliens in U.S. or state prisons and local jails during the period measured. They accounted for 4.9 million arrests for 7.5 million offenses. (The numbers, according to the GAO: 197,000 criminal aliens in federal prisons, arrested 1.4 million times for 2 million offenses, between 2011 and 2016; 533,000 in state or local facilities between 2010 and 2015, representing 3.5 million arrests for 5.5 million offenses.)"
The article continues by pointing out costs to America’s taxpaying citizens . . . “federal taxpayers shelled out more than $15 billion during the period studied — or $2.5 billion a year — to keep criminal aliens behind bars in federal, state and local facilities.”
And let us not forget the cost to American Citizens for the healthcare needs of illegal entrants. See: New NY health care law might spend over $500M on illegal immigrants
February 24, 2019
“New York legislators are pushing a new law to have the cash-strapped state spend more than $500 million to provide virtually free, taxpayer-financed health care to more than 400,000 adult illegal immigrants.”
The article continues . . . “The Gottfried-Rivera measure piggybacks a similar $100 million program touted by Mayor de Blasio that guarantees illegal immigrants in the city get basic medical care through doctors at city-run hospitals.”
Aside from all the above, the question remains:
Should the United States, in promoting the general welfare of the United States and her citizens, enforce a merit based approach restricting the entry of foreigners?
JWK
