It is high time that President Obama and Congress realized that the U.S. cannot achieve fiscally responsible health care reform or substantially reduce unemployment unless we first enact some sort of immigration moratorium although some immigrants are great assets. I used to prepare immigration applications.

Acording to the March 2007 Current Population Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, about one-third of all foreign-born lack health insurance; immigrants and their U.S.-born children under 18 accounted for nearly one third of all people in the U.S. without health insurance and more than 70 percent of the growth of the uninsured population in the U.S.
Meanwhile, every year one million legal immigrants, at least half a million illegal migrants, plus hundreds of thousands of “guest workers” continue to enter the U.S. Their U.S.-born children are American and will be eligible under the Obama health plan.

American taxpayers should be aware of the explosive fiscal burden if the misnamed “comprehensive immigration reform” — amnesty and massive guest worker visas — promoted by open-border advocates is enacted. That “reform” could add over 120 million U.S. and foreign-born relatives of legalized people and “guest workers” to the U.S. over the next 20 years. Not only will these newcomers need jobs, they will also require health care, education and other social services whose expenses could well exceed the tax dollars they will generate because of their low incomes.

Decades ago, China already understood that population growth would impede its economic success. It has seriously restricted immigration even for people of Chinese descent. When will American leaders follow suit?