Monday, June 14, 2010

A Smart Exception

This piece gives some interesting statistics about immigrants and how much they have done for this country in the past century. - - Donna Poisl

by David Gergen

As H.L. Mencken once observed, “There is always a well-known solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.” So often true. But when it comes to creating American jobs, there is also a partial solution that is neat, plausible, and right.

It lies in our immigration policies. For more than five years, Washington has wrestled so hard with the vexing problem of illegal immigration that we have forgotten how much we can gain from legal immigrants. Indeed, they can be an enormous source of vitality -- and jobs.
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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Most illegal migrants come in the US with different purpose and it's really hard to solve this problem, and hope one day Mexico should share their knowledge on how to control these illegals because they said that most 67% of US budgets are strained by the illegals.

But of course there are many legals immigrants as well who help the country.