We Need More Immigration, Not Less

But what we do NOT need is more illegals.

by Rod D. Martin
May 24, 2006

Larry Kudlow rightly pointed out on his show the other day that if, as is alledged, the Senate's bill were to allow in 100 million new immigrants over the next 20 years or so, that would do nothing more than replace the babies we've killed through abortion.

Staying even is important. We are weakened by every loss. Our unemployment is at its lowest rate in three and a half decades, showing clearly that we have more jobs than we can do (remember: Americans work harder and longer hours than any country on Earth). And our chief 21st Century rivals -- China and India -- have five and four times our population, respectively. China alone graduated 600,000 new engineers this year. The barbaric One Child Policy will eventually produce a Chinese demographic collapse. But not yet.

America needs more people, a point which would have been well understood by kings of an earlier age. All other things being equal, population is the measure of national strength, and we're ent…