Talk:Illegal immigration

Welfare
I'm a libertarian, and the the "there's no food stamps, no state run medical care, no social security, and so on." is a counterproductive argument. It's not going to convince conservatives to accept free immigration, it's just going to make conservatives and even libertarians more opposed. It sounds like it's saying that people who need (or want) welfare unavailable in other countries should be allowed to move to America to take advantage of the American wellfare state. If everyone in the world who wanted to take advantage of our welfare state (and could afford to move here) did so, how are we supposed to pay for it. The American Welfare state would collapse, and conservatives are (ironically) opposed to that.

I guess I woke up in the mirror universe: Instead of the conservatives wanting to abolish the welfare state and the liberals wanting to keep it, the liberals want to collapse the welfare state and the conservatives want to keep it. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 20:44, May 10, 2014 (UTC)