Serious crimes reported to police went down 0.3 percent in the first six months of this year, extending the crime decline to eight and a half years. The decline, however, was minuscule compared to the 7 percent drop in 1999 and the 9.5 percent fall for the same six-month period last year. This is the criminal justice limbo stick, we just can't go any lower. In California, for example, power shortages are so severe that U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson took the unprecedented step of ordering other states to send electricity to California. Contrary to your recent article, there are some very good reasons to curtail immigration.
Immigration undermines our commitment to a middle-class society.
People with less than a college education are getting no wage increases in the current economic regime. As long as we keep taking in poor people, we will never end poverty in America. We are running our economy like a chain- letter scam. Tight labor markets are the right- wing answer to poverty. Employers provide health care when labor markets are tight, and employers of sweatshop labor do not pay their share of the health care costs for uninsured workers.