Yes, you will.

BTW, according to this, the U.S. has taken in 7.9 million immigrants since 2000, half of them illegals. Last year (2005) Canada took in about 230,000 , which is just under 2 1/2 million in American terms. I can't find stats for 2000-4, but they wouldn't be much different. Britain is taking in far more immigrants than the continentals and the economies of all three countries are leading the world in health and growth. There is no anti-immigrant constituency in Canada to speak of and not a really serious one in Britain compared to Europe.

Statistics also show that the average Canadian immigrant earns 60% of the average national wage in his/her first and that this rises steadily to 105-110% in year 10.

Were Labor still in control, I'd guess they'd solve the problem by having France send them all their spare, disgruntled youths (Muslim and otherwise), who would then have a new country not to work in.

I can't believe I actually used the opening phrase "Statistics show..."

Sorry...must go and lie down a bit.

"For Victor Pérez (Canada here I come)
Muciño, 33, a municipal worker in the town of Huixquilucan, recent news coverage of the Minuteman Project, a civilian patrol on the Arizona-Mexico border, was the deciding factor.

"We're always hearing about what they're doing to our fellow citizens . . . all these things with vigilantes, migrant hunters," he said. "Who wants to live with that?"
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Indeed

Welcome to Canada Amigos!!!

"The recent demonstrations against border controls have revealed the political aspects of the illegal immigration problem. These demonstrations were marked by the number of Mexican flags, anti-American slogans and outrageous revanchist claims.

Ludwig von Mises once observed that it did not matter if Australia was inhabited by both Japanese and Englishmen so long as they shared the same classical liberal values. There was nothing liberal in the classical sense about these demonstrations. They revealed contempt for American values and history. Moreover, the demonstrators’ claim that they are “the economic backbone of the country” is palpably false. Cheap labour has never been part of America’s economic backbone. As I have tried to show, importing so-called cheap labour can have a very high price indeed.

It is argued that deporting illegals will destabilise their countries of origin, mainly Mexico. But their disgraceful behaviour shows that they are a destabilising political element in the host country that will not hesitate to overwhelm American streets and police departments with Latin American-style politics.3 Is that what Americans want? I doubt it, even though the treasonous America-hating left welcomes the thought. "

Gerard Jackson
BrookesNews.Com
http://www.brookesnews.com/060304immigration.html

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Ya gotta love Teddy

Comments:
Agreed. People sometimes call me an Aussie to which I respond "no I'm American now".

While I do have some fondness for my country of birth I'd never attend a rally , or anything else, waving an Aussie flag. In fact I don't even own one (in any form). I do however fly a 3x5' American flag right outside my front door.

For some people, including a few at my own Naturalization ceremony, The Oath Of Allegiance is just a bunch of words without meaning. For me they were spoken with full understanding and commitment. In fact I consider myself more American than some others (e.g. RatbastardCommies).

This whole immigration debate is pissing me off. I spend the last 10 years jumping through all the legal hoops to get where I am and now these Congresscritters (D & R) are saying Pedro the pool boy can stay because he evaded (not that they ever looked) the authorities all this time. I say fuck you Pedro do the paperwork like everyone else. If you don't want to then get the fuck out of MY country asshole.

There, I feel (a bit) better now.

# posted by AnnoyedOne : 8:57 PM EDT

Welcome to America Oz! You're not only da' man, you are a man but frankly I wish you'd stay'd home and kicked the hell out of the Leftist that are destroying your home country but, on the other hand at least you know where you are and you have a fighting spirit. Some of our more "enlightened and looking for a "third way" citizens" have forgotten. God bless you Sir, tell your friends to come on over and if you have a younger sister have her drop me a line.

Yes, because that's what makes a true American: paperwork.

NC3:

Great stuff, but didn't you forget to mention all those un-American smells from their kitchens?

From http://www.brookesnews.com/060304immigration.html (a site recommended by another commenter):

After the Black Death struck England in 1348 the population was reduced by about a third. The result was a rapid rise in real wage rates. So swift was this rise that in 1351 the crown felt impelled to pass maximum wage laws based on the average wage for the period 1325-1331. It did this in the belief that there was something unnatural and unjust about rapidly rising wages, even though it was brought about by a sudden reduction in the size of the workforce.

Any economist would simply state that the sudden rise in real wages was caused by a rapid increase in the ratio of land and capital to labour. (This process was detailed in Paul A. Samuelson’s Economics, tenth edition, McGraw-Hill). It follows that lowering the ratio of land and capital to the population would also lower living standards. And this is what eventually happened as the population expanded.

I'm all for making every immigrant jump through paperwork hoops.

The problem isn't that Pedro the pool boy won't do so, it's that current immigration quotas for Mexicans and Central Americans are ridiculously low. Pedro knows that he won't be given the opportunity to jump through the hoops.

So, let's immediately end any barriers to immigration to the U.S. from NAFTA and CAFTA states.
Everyone passing a backround check gives fingerprint and DNA samples, and gets a green card.

They're legal, hoops have been passed through. Everyone's happy.

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at April 9, 2006 5:13 AM