Post by bolverk on Jun 19, 2008 17:13:33 GMT -5
Wow, I actually found a congressman who agrees with my own personal assessment that we are creating the divide between rich and poor in this country artificially. How, by importing it from abroad, mostly from a nation with the widest disparity between rich and poor. Our neighbor to the south.
Here is the statement:
Tancredo Says “We Are Importing Our Poverty”
Broken U.S. immigration policy partially responsible for 73% jump in CO kids poverty rates
( WASHINGTON, D.C. ) – U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) today said immigration, both legal and illegal, is the cause of a significant part of Colorado’s increase in child poverty.
The Colorado Children's Campaign report released this week showed the number of kids under the age of 18 living in poverty increased 73 percent, from 104,000 in 2000 to 180,000 in 2006, in Colorado. This was the most of any state in America .
“It is irresponsible for the media and the governor to not recognize the fact that immigration is largely to blame for this increase,” Tancredo said. “If Colorado were actually enforcing its own laws, we would reduce the number of people in that category.”
The president of the Colorado Children’s Campaign came close to identifying the problem when she acknowledged, “changing demographics of the state” as a contributor to the increase in poverty levels. Political correctness stopped her from identifying immigration as the real problem.
Colorado’s foreign born population went up by over 100,000 people between 2000 and 2006 according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the Federation for American Immigration Reform. This was the same time period the Colorado Children’s Campaign used in their report on child poverty.
“The research is clear,” Tancredo said. “An increase in immigration leads to an increase in poverty.”
Tancredo concluded, “If we truly want to do something about poverty in Colorado and our nation, we must stop importing poverty. We must begin enforcing the laws, primarily against hiring illegal aliens, which will force self-deportation of others in that category.”
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Here is the statement:
Tancredo Says “We Are Importing Our Poverty”
Broken U.S. immigration policy partially responsible for 73% jump in CO kids poverty rates
( WASHINGTON, D.C. ) – U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) today said immigration, both legal and illegal, is the cause of a significant part of Colorado’s increase in child poverty.
The Colorado Children's Campaign report released this week showed the number of kids under the age of 18 living in poverty increased 73 percent, from 104,000 in 2000 to 180,000 in 2006, in Colorado. This was the most of any state in America .
“It is irresponsible for the media and the governor to not recognize the fact that immigration is largely to blame for this increase,” Tancredo said. “If Colorado were actually enforcing its own laws, we would reduce the number of people in that category.”
The president of the Colorado Children’s Campaign came close to identifying the problem when she acknowledged, “changing demographics of the state” as a contributor to the increase in poverty levels. Political correctness stopped her from identifying immigration as the real problem.
Colorado’s foreign born population went up by over 100,000 people between 2000 and 2006 according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the Federation for American Immigration Reform. This was the same time period the Colorado Children’s Campaign used in their report on child poverty.
“The research is clear,” Tancredo said. “An increase in immigration leads to an increase in poverty.”
Tancredo concluded, “If we truly want to do something about poverty in Colorado and our nation, we must stop importing poverty. We must begin enforcing the laws, primarily against hiring illegal aliens, which will force self-deportation of others in that category.”
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