The percentage has not yet struck our primary goal, however.
The question that needs to be answered is how many of these babies stayed and sponsored their parents. Then compared that to the number of other types of legal immigrants. It is not a potential that is important but the reality of what actually happens that is important.
illegal immigration is the biggest problem to the long-term solvency of our social programs. nobody is jumping the border to invest 500K in our businesses. they are jumping the border to work menial jobs, which means they have a negative tax obligation- they'll get more back through the earned income tax credit, etc than they paid into the system. not that this would be any different than americans taking those same jobs (likely the same tax obligations), but the scale at which these people are coming across is what's taxing the system. we cannot have more socialist policies without restricting immigration- that's just a fact.
thebaron
Sounds like reform is needed to send back these crooks from gaming the system.