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Quote by: Chris the Chees And as typical, in my opinion; utterly wrongly. I would say the causes of immigration are multifaceted, an array of issues from economic, political, social issues in the migrants home country and the promise of a better life in their destination country.

In theory, you are correct. The United States borders a relatively poor country, Mexico. That is why Mexicans risk their life to cross over the border patrol in the Arizona's Sonoran Dessert. More that 500,000 illegal immigrants were caught last year.

I can dig up many examples of Mexicans living her for years and not learning English. I doubt that they come her for our culture.

While a reasonable pension system and social security do undoubtedly gie the citizens of a country a better standard of living, these humble improvements are largely not given to illegal immigrants, thus they clearly are not an insentive for migration.

Quote by: Ron Paul In some Houston hospitals, administrators estimate that 70 or 80% of the babies born have parents who are in the country illegally. As an obstetrician in south Texas for several decades, I can attest to the severity of the problem. It’s the same story in California, Arizona, and New Mexico. And the truth is most illegal immigrants who have babies in U.S. hospitals do not have health insurance and do not pay their hospital bills.

Here is another example:
"In 2003 in Stockton, California, 70 percent of the 2,300 babies
born in San Joaquin General Hospital’s maternity ward were
anchor babies,and 45percent of Stockton children underage six are
Latino (up from 30 percent in 1993). In 1994, 74,987 anchor
babies in California hospital maternity units cost $215 million and
constituted 36 percent of all Medi-Cal births. Now they account for
substantially more than half."

After all, for an illegal border jumper turning up at the job centre for your dole money is a swift and easy way of getting deported.

"NILC cleverly managed to restore to its constituency of legal and illegal immigrants: $12 billion in Supplemental Security Income, and more than $800millionin food stamps."

Illegals are guaranteed medical care and don't get deported after they have their anchor baby.

Source: http://http://64.233.167.104/search?...ient=firefox-a

Another article that might be of interest:
Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Breaking News for Dallas-Fort Worth | Dallas Morning News

Being such an obvious flaw in his argument, I am supprised Paul even made it. But then again, I read a lot of a libertarian explainations for why 'x' is in such a mess and they nearly always seem to have glaring problems the advocate utterly ignores or perhaps hasn't even noticed.

Where is the flaw? You could point it out rather make a gross overgeneralization.

Quote by: Ron Paul No other wealthy, western nations grant automatic citizenship to those who simply happen to be born within their borders to non-citizens. These nations recognize that citizenship involves more than the physical location of one’s birth; it also involves some measure of cultural connection and allegiance. In most cases this means the parents must be citizens of a nation in order for their newborn children to receive automatic citizenship.

Does your country allow for illegal immigration, guaranteed health care, and anchor babies?