Compared with native-born Americans, immigrants are more likely to start a business, more likely to launch a hugely successful one, more likely to work, and less likely to commit crime. They’re also willing to take jobs many Americans refuse to do. …

Americans who resent having to compete with immigrants for jobs suffer from a double delusion. First, they assume the supply of jobs is fixed and that we would all be better off with a smaller population. That’s flatly wrong. Immigrants are not just employees; they are also employers and consumers. Second, talk of immigrants taking “our” jobs implies some people have prior claims to jobs they have not yet been hired for. The term for that is “entitlement mentality.”

But aren’t immigrants driving up crime rates? Nope. Take Arizona, the Ground Zero of anti-immigration sentiment. As a 2010 piece in The Washington Times noted, “In the past decade, as illegal immigrants were drawn in record numbers by the housing boom, the rate of violent crimes in Phoenix and the entire state fell by more than 20 percent, a steeper drop than in the overall U.S. crime rate.” As Arizona goes, so goes the nation: A 2007 study found that “for every ethnic group, without exception, incarceration rates among young men are lowest for immigrants.” The Immigration Policy Center, which produced that report, elsewhere has said that “a century’s worth of research has demonstrated that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes … than the native-born.”

America was once the most successful country in history because we allowed the best of the best to immigrate into our nation and help formulate better ideas which led to better businesses and better living for all. 

That’s the secret.

We import talent. We let everyone enter and those who make it, make it big and those who can’t hang eventually leave. Or at least that was our old business model. 

Now we make it impossible to enter and even undesirable to enter this country. And those who are lucky to get here find it impossible and expensive to get an education and apply that to starting a successful business. Those that can’t make it here have no reason to leave since we’ve taken away the safety net and replaced it with a Tempurpedic sofa and a lifetime supply of government goodies. Why would anyone want to try hard in this country anymore and why would those that want to try even come here in the first place?

The real answer is that they don’t. 

(via statehate)