For the Xenophobes Perusal

So...Republicans have noticed that losing elections is no fun...and as they scramble wildly around to get votes, while simultaneously working as hard as they can to keep others from voting, they drag out the old saw "immigration reform".  Of course, the real version of reform they would love to adopt involves internment camps and trails of tears, that might offend a whole new class of dupes they hope to drag to the polls....only to deny them the vote as soon as they get there. The cognitive dissonance hurts....
Anywho...here is a quite informative comment from a Huffpo article on the subject to rattle off when people start bitching about "the real problem is them damn Mexicuns!":


" Immigrants are 30 percent more likely to start a business in the United States than non-immigrants. 18 percent of all small business owners in the United States are immigrants. Immigrants are also more likely to create their own jobs. 7.5 percent of the foreign born are self-employed compared to 6.6 percent among the native-born. According to the National Venture Capital Association, immigrants have started 25 percent of public U.S. companies that were backed by venture capital investors. This list includes Google, eBay, Yahoo!, Sun Microsystems, and Intel. According to the Census Bureau, despite making up only 16 percent of the resident population holding a bachelor’s degree or higher, immigrants represent 33 percent of engineers, 27 percent of mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientist, and 24 percent of physical scientists. Additionally, foreign-born inventors were credited with contributing to more than 75 percent of patents issued to the top 10 patent-producing universities. Increased immigration to the United States has increased the earnings of Americans with more than a high school degree. Immigrants boost demand for local consumer goods. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, under the 2010 House-passed version of the DREAM Act, the federal deficit would be reduced by $2.2 billion over ten years because of increased tax revenues. Comprehensive immigration reform could support and create up to 900,000 new jobs within three years of reform from the increase in consumer spending, according to the Center for American Progress."