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USC Goes All Out in Support of Amnesty – Part III

Published on May 11th, 2013

Listening to the recent pro-immigration event at USC made me think of George Orwell, because of the 1984ish flavor of the conference. I’m not talking all-out dystopia, but a real sense of propaganda and calling things not as they are.

One speaker, Dowell Myers, a USC professor of population dynamics, was asked about the cost of health care and anchor babies – how do relative benefits versus costs get reconciled?

“There’s lots of economic data,” he said, “and it’s hard to know who to believe.”

From his response, he’s chosen to believe a particular set of data. He said, “The cost is high initially.” But, “They (anchor babies) pay off bigger down the road. Any kid offered to America is a real treasure. They’re an enormous payoff by the time they’re 30.”

Myers had an interesting way of looking at taxation too. He thinks the federal government should pick up more costs. If you’re opposed to a large centralized government, you won’t like that idea. As well, if you’re a state that doesn’t have huge illegal alien communities, you’re probably not going to like paying for, oh, a state like California, which does.

Also on the anchor baby issue, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, a USC professor of sociology who studies gender, migration, Mexican immigration and the euphemistic informal work sector, said she had met many people who had returned to Mexico to have their babies, so their babies didn’t qualify as Americans, a situation she regarded as “a huge travesty.”

Hrrmmm.

The conference closed in the afternoon with former President of Mexico Vicente Fox and his perspective on U.S. immigration reform.

“Walls don’t work,” said Fox, who predicts that Mexico’s population growth will stop in 2030 and that the income gap between Mexico and the U.S. will close. He said Mexico has the strongest manufacturing structure in all of Central America and that Mexico is more competitive than all of China.

From his “outside” perspective, Fox said the No. 1 beneficiary from immigration is the U.S. economy. He said that with immigration, “It’s going to regain capacity to grow and conquer markets. This nation is great because of its capacity to compete.”

Fox added the caveat that regulation has to be loosened. He also said not everyone wants to be a citizen. “Many like to come, make some money and go home to their families and land.”

The most bizarre comments from Fox were related to the drug war raging in Mexico that reportedly has claimed 50,000 lives since 2006. He was asked about the troubling correlation on the border with violence and the drug trade and how could we tackle the drug trade to help “perception.”

Fox responded, “There is not too much correlation between the drugs and immigration. The truth is we just happen to be in between the huge consumer market for drugs in the U.S. and the distribution.

"We do produce marijuana, but maybe not as much as in California. So we’re involved in a war that is not ours.”

Talk about being in denial! But denial seems to be the standard M.O. with pro-amnesty pushers.

Listen to all the event speakers at http://priceschool.usc.edu/immigration-forum.

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