Douglas Holtz-Eakin was an adviser to John McCain’s presidential run in 2008. We all know how well that turned out. Now, Holtz-Eakin is pimping amnesty. Republicans of course want amnesty to that their big business overlords will be flooded with cheap, low skilled labor. Democrats want amnesty for their low information votes and another excuse to explode the size of government. But Holtz-Eakin has another reason. American’s aren’t have enough babies or something. That’s why we should let others into this country illegally. McCain really knew how to pick ’em huh?
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On Thursday, a former adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and the president of a think tank that supports the Senate’s amnesty bill said America needed sweeping amnesty legislation and more immigrants because native-born Americans are not making enough babies.
“Like all important policy issues, it comes down to sex,” Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who advised McCain during the 2008 campaign, said Thursday at a National Journal event on immigration. “The blunt fact is the native-born population does not have a fertility rate high enough to keep the population growing.”
His comments on a panel with five others echoed former Florida governor and potential 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush’s remarks earlier in the year, when Bush said “immigrants are more fertile” than native-born Americans. As Breitbart News reported, Bush also has said that America’s current “fertility rates” will not produce enough younger workers to enable aging Americans to retire “with dignity.”
Holtz-Eakin, the president of the American Action Forum, which backed the Senate’s amnesty bill, added that there is “no more important economic policy issue than immigration over the long term” and claimed that the “policy debate is over” on amnesty because “there [are] no serious disagreements” over border security and amnesty.
“In the absence of immigration, the U.S. shrinks,” Holtz-Eakin said, noting that that means the country’s population, labor force and “capabilities to grow as a nation and compete internationally” depend on “the choices we [make] like immigration.” He said the nation “absolutely” needed more immigrants.