It is absolute bovine manure that every immigrant takes a job from a US citizen. It is beyond asinine to purport that 57,000 (500,000 or even 5,000,000) refugee children represent a threat or burden to this once great nation. It certainly isn't Christian to meet refugees (children at that!) with derogatory signs, hate speech and naked fear mongering!
The immigrant serves as the strawman argument of diversionary propaganda that hides the loss of our jobs by the neo-liberal financial theory exemplified by GATT's,NAFTA, CAFTA and other so called "free trade" agreements.
These "trade" agreements have arguably done as great or greater economical damage to the countries of Central and Southern American as well as our immediate neighbor Mexico then our own self inflicted wounds and certainly have exacerbated the situation in these countries along with our overt and covert political meddling.
Capitalism (free movement of capital) monetary policy is conflated with the Free Enterprise system that this country was based on.
In light of the perversion of economic policy from the original capital as quantified in Adam Smiths Wealth of Nations, by the financial interests that have devalued our currency and the institutions of our society, we can hardly even call ourselves capitalistic.
Democracy (or Federalism if you will) does not equate with capitalism; the two often are mutually exclusive. Government cannot be run as a business; the goals and outcomes of the two are not the same.
Despite the musings of the Mises institute; There is no such thing as a "free market" or "Free trade": they are ideals (like Aristotle's crystal spheres or Platos perfect mirror world).
We are a nation of immigrants; the ant-immigrant meme serves to pit "us against them" while the banksters and those who hide in the shadows wielding the true power laugh all the way to the bank.
