Interesting article talking about the decline if immigration from Mexico into the United States:
CNN Opinion wrote:Another change in Mexico that is just beginning to affect migration streams is a steep decline in birth rates. In 1960, the fertility rate in Mexico was 7.3 -- meaning, on average, a Mexican woman could expect to have seven children in her lifetime. In 2009, it had dropped to 2.4. Declining birth rates have pushed up the median age of the Mexican population. This has meant that the age group in the prime years for emigration, 15- to 39-year-olds, is a shrinking share of Mexico's population.
This points out an often overlooked factor in immigration:
People come here because they want high paying jobs. They want high paying jobs because there is such an oversupply of labor in their own country that it drives down the cost of labor. When you reduce the supply of the labor pool, you increase the demand, which drives up salaries, which means more Mexicans can afford to stay in Mexico.
Talking overtly about birth control in a country that is over 80% Catholic is not a popular subject, but if you want less immigration, give women more access to birth control.
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Talking overtly about birth control in a country that is over 80% Catholic is not a popular subject, but if you want less immigration, give women more access to birth control.
I agree with that statement. I also agree that we need to get an immigration reform bill to be able to pass in the House of representatives.
McCain: 'We are not winning' push for immigration reform
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McCain said proponents - who include businesses, churches and labor - will wage an aggressive campaign in selective congressional districts next month to make the case for a comprehensive overhaul of U.S. immigration laws.
"Here is a fact: We are not winning," the Arizona Republican told reporters. "So we have to wage a campaign. That doesn't mean a negative campaign. It means a positive campaign."
"You need to respond to things that are said. You need to build support. You need to network," McCain said.
The Democratic-led Senate last month overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill crafted by McCain and seven of his colleagues, but it was declared dead on arrival in the Republican-led House.
Most of the opposition to the White House-backed bill is over a provision that would provide a pathway to citizenship for up to 11 million illegal immigrants now in the United States.
Backers say the pathway would draw undocumented immigrants out of the shadows and make them productive and tax-paying members of the American way of life, improving the U.S. economy.
Critics argue that the pathway would amount to "amnesty," and attract more illegal immigrants into the country.
McCain and two fellow co-authors of the Senate bill, Democratic Senator Charles Schumer and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, recently met with tech giants, including Google, Intel and Microsoft, to discuss the campaign for immigration reform, aides said.
They plan to target more than 100 House Republicans who are seen as at least open to the possibility of voting for immigration reform, which would help provide business with needed high- and low-skilled workers, aides said.
"There are many members of the House who don't want to take up any bill at all," said McCain.
McCain and others initially predicted that if the Senate passed an immigration bill with strong bipartisan support, it would pressure the House to consider it.
The comprehensive bill passed 68-32, but House Republican leaders have refused to even bring it up. Backers are now hoping that the House simply passes a limited bill.
That would trigger a House-Senate conference where negotiators could try to combine the two measures into a single new piece of legislation.
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Will the new immigration law change the fact that the government does not enforce tax law against employers who pay under the table?
The only thing that really seems to have stopped women from having so many children is economic growth. When a woman has an opportunity cost between having a child and having a good job, women in the developed world have chosen not to have so many children. Women do have access to birth control in Latin America. They have kids because they choose to have them.
Illegal and mass immigration means cheap votes for the left and cheap labor for the elite on the right. That's a real screw for the average taxpaying American, but in this case the average American has no say on this issue of border enforcement. Immigration continues to accelerate and the tax burden will continue to increase for those of us who the government chooses to enforce their payment.
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