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David Holzman
Lexington, MA
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David commented on the petition |Big companies should not be taking advantage of workers. Workers need to be able to speak up about safety without being fired.
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David commented on the article |@Jesse Katzman
In fact, illegal immigrants take a lot more in tax money than they pay. Their children are educated at Americans' expense; they don't have health insurance, but they get care at emergency rooms because hospitals can't turn them away.
They also take jobs from Americans, as Nicholas Kristof eloquently described in the NYT here: select.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/opinion/09kristof.html
(If the link doesn't work, google "compassion that hurts."
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David commented on the article |This issue is far more complex than you people seem to realize. You might want to start by reading NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof's "Compassion that Hurts" from April 9, 2006
http://select.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/opinion/09kristof.html?_r=1
Then, understand that current policies that support mass immigration--family unification, anchor babies, guest workers, etc., will result in the population of the US going from the current 310 million to nearly 440 million by 2050 (Pew Research Center, 2008). Since--as John Holdren, Obama's head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy pointed out years ago with Paul Ehrlich--environmental impact is a function of population times environmental impact per capita, that growth will make it that much harder for the US, the most resource intensive major developed country in the world to reduce ours. For example, the average immigrant (to the US) boosts their per capita greenhouse gas emissions four-fold (Center for Immigration Studies, 2008).
Better to help people in poor countries help their own countries, for example by microlending through sites such as kiva.com.
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