illegal workers contribution to the American economy?
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Emergency rooms clogged and closing down, Schools overcrowded, school lunch programs running out of money, traffic, car accidents with no insurance, going to the bathroom in public in from of Home Depot waiting for a job, having to print signs in multiple languages, denying a better education to children because the teacher has to try and help those learning english too, jails overcrowding, trash collection and public services pushed to the brink, wages depressed, teenagers having a harder time finding jobs.  This just a portion of what the costs to the American Economy are.
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The evidence in support of putting and end to illegal immigration is overwhelming. Study after study, fact after fact CLEARLY demonstrates this. Illegal aliens have broken federal law, they are in fact criminals. The U.S. Government has made but a token effort to enforce the law and in every other aspect (free food, free medical, free education, public assisted housing) encourages and rewards the lawbreakers.\n\nI find that the U.S. government is guilty of aiding and abetting a criminal enterprise. I find them guilty of importing criminals and sentence ALL former Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and members of the House and Senate to give up and forever relinquish their FAT pensions.\n\nGee if we could do that this problem would have been solved in a heartbeat
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No of course not.\n\nIf you have even a reasonable education you are in little danger of losing your job to an illegal.  It's just blatant conservative scare tactics at work.\n\nOutsourcing is a totally different issue.  Guess that's what "globalization" means, though ...
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Deporting, I would guess $50-75 per person.  I have a better idea, fine businesses exorbitant amounts for having undocumented workers.  $200,000 first offense, $500,000 second offense, $1 million third and so on.  This will eliminate business that employ illegal immigrants.  No jobs for illegal in America= no illegal aliens in America.
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Illegals drive down the standard of living for our middle class and reduce wages for our working class so that they become no longer self sufficient.  I suspect you are talking about a different country than I am.\n\nWhere I am, taxpayers are subsidizing cheap labor for corporations which benefits illegal workers who may have new opportunities we pay for and benefits corporations who expand operations abroad, but does very little for us.  They say the price of produce would go up if we had no illegals.  However, studies have shown that it would go up $10 per year for a family of four, because labor is such a small part of the price of produce.\n\nI'd pay $10 a year, heck, I'd pay $100 a year, if my kids' schools would return to the educational standards they had 30 years ago.\n\nNot to mention that my taxes would go down at least $1,500 per year from not having to pay for their services, according to other studies I have seen.
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"We help the comunites and without us you would be nothing."\nHAHAHAHAHAHA!\n\nOh I’m sorry I know laughing isn't very professional but that comment was so damn funny.  Obviously you either lack an understanding of basic economics or you haven’t thought things though.  The U.S. has a very capital intensive economy meaning we work 'smarter' in most sectors using machinery and educated workers in order to be more productive.  \n\nThis is totally opposite of third world countries such as Mexico which have to use large amounts of unskilled labor in order to produce labor intensive goods.  If all the illegal immigrants left the United States we wouldn't be dealt a crushing blow.  Quite the opposite, we'd be forced to eliminate tariffs and subsidies and then import labor intensive products such as strawberries and tomato’s at a cheaper price from South America.  \n\nThis would allow us to pursue our comparative advantage by producing capital intensive goods and services such as: software, engineering, financial management, etc. And propel our economy forward.  \n\nThe illegal immigrants filling positions which cannot be out-sourced or replaced by machines [which are very few positions] will be filled by citizens of this country.  But instead of those positions being filled by illegals' working under the table for $4 an hour and not paying taxes; the smaller supply of labor being provided by U.S. citizens will raise salaries these back up to a living wage.  Citizens will be able to make a living as a janitor or construction worker again, our economy will be better off due to lowered import tariffs and trade barriers, and we will know that one of Osama Bin Laden’s flunkies isn't sneaking across the border with a Nuclear Bomb.\n\nEveryone wins but the illegal immigrants.  But hey they shouldn't be here in the first place. \n\nBasically this all boils down to us looking out for our own interests as a nation.  I'm all for LEGAL immigration.  In fact I support it.  I think that we should allow people to immigrate to this country based on: \n\nEducational level - The more educated you are the more you bring to the table in our capital intensive economy.\n\nEconomic status - If you bring a lot of money to invest, it will benefit the U.S.\n\nAbility to speak english - English is the common language here.  Duh.\n\nEthnic Diversity - We are a nation of immigrants from around the world.  Diversity gives us strength.  Plus it's unfair to allow citizens of one country a greater chance at staying here then everyone else.  Also if you take a homogenous group of foreigners and place them together geographically it makes it harder for them to assimilate to our culture.  The idea is that THEY become Americans not that WE become: Mexicans, Indians, Koreans, etc.\n\nNeeded Job Skills - If the need for more workers in a given field is adversely effecting our economy we should import them.\n\nPolitical Persecution - If you are fleeing from an authoritarian regime such as Cuba, Iran, or North Korea you should be given extra consideration in coming here.\n\nI don't know why so many illegal immigrants, especially latinos have a huge chip on their shoulder all of the sudden.  After all THEY ARE THE ONES WHO BROKE THE LAW and they are the ones who shouldn't be here.  I wish our representitives would grow enough balls to tackle the problem head on and put these criminals in their place.\n\nEDIT:\n\n"When they specifically say mexicans instead of just saying undocumented workers or mentioning all the other groups that also come to the States illegally, they come off as racist."\n\nHey jackass: Mexico is a country not a race of people.  So how can people be racist when refering to a citizens of a specific country?  For example you can be of Filipino descent [and there are Filipino communities in Mexico] and be born in Tijuana and you will be a 'Mexican' citizen.  \nCalling someone
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yes. These illegals and their supporters are blaming Americans of all colors for their pitiful existence and using this blame as an excuse to condone and justify illegal activity.
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business has stopped this in the past. Big business will lobby and complain against letting prisoners welfare recipients do this because it takes work away from them which means less profit for them. That is why business wants cheap illegal labor.\n\nAs you know America is ruled by business and its corporate donations to the parties
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Pancah let me give you some numbers\n\n*$136 billion dollars worth US jobs are send to different countries and still corporations getting tax cuts\n*Human Trffcking is a billion dollar business acrcoss US- Mexico border. These dollars are not taxable.\n*Govt cost towards illegal immigrants $7.2 Billion/per yer\n*Economy gains $20 Billion/per year from illegal immigrants\n\nSo i can only show the gain.
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In California, the overflow of foreign-born illegal residents has given this state the most crowded cities in the country. Poverty increased more in California than anywhere else in the nation over the past decade, particularly in areas of the state with large illegal alien populations. The influx of low skilled illegal workers may well have already vastly exceeded the demand for low-skill labor, and many economists and analysts not enamored of free-market theory argue it has caused lower average incomes overall and increases in unemployment. \nI'm not sure of the number they place on how many illegals are here its been estimated at about 12 million.\nBut no one knows their true number ,it may be higher or lower.
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It is illegal to employ them, but the republicans that are in power wouldn't think of doing away with the cheap labor that their constituents use. They will protect the greedy corporations and rich individuals that pay slave wages. Some people say this isn't true, but I think if you do a little investigation you will find as I have that alot of them are paid below the minimum wage, which is illegal. They don't pay taxes on their earnings, which is illegal. They don't pay social security tax, which is illegal. They don't pay medicare tax, which is illegal. They crossed our border without permission from our government, which is illegal. They work without permission from our government, which is illegal. They use up all our financial resources,such as welfare, free health care, schools, which is illegal and immoral. Some people can't understand why they are called illegal immigrants. Can you?
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These foreigners you are referring to are most likely illegals, not just immigrants.  The people who support this type of immigration are the ones who profit from it-- 1) employers who can increase their profits to grotesque proportions by hiring them, 2) the government who looks out for the interests of the business elite.  Many politicians build their carreers on catering to the whims of big business.  Their campaigns are financed directly or indirectly by these businessmen, 3) the media who is directly  owned by large corporations and who propagates lies like illegals take jobs Americans don't want.  The fact of the matter is these jobs do not pay a living wage and by propagating self serving lies such as Americans won't do them, the media is helping the business elite keep wages down for everybody, including legal workers, who have to compete with the low wages illegals are willing to accept.  The media also intentionally confuses the issue of illegal immigration by making it seem as if it is an issue about immigrants instead of an issue of  naked employer greed, which is what it is really about. 4) Illegals and their relatives who have no trouble finding work because they are ready and willing to be exploited by these greedy employers and is in their personal interest to believe and propagate the lies about American unwillingness to do these jobs.  So the people who don't care about Americans who can't find work are only the people who profit from their lack of employment.
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Yes. Most of the construction workers in the states where the wall would be built are illegals.
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Listen up people and listen good. Illegal immigrants are not "draining the system" or "taking advantage" of the system!\n\nThe US Economy benefits from immigrants illegal or not! Why because the business's that hires them knows that the papers they have are fake but, they hire them anyways. These places use fake social security numbers and then takes taxes out the the illegal immigrants pay. Taxes help out America. \n\nIn turn, the illegal immigrants buy goods and services in this country which of course helps out the GNP. Also, Illegal immigrants and legal immigrants CANNOT even qualify for public assistance because they are not citizens. Illegal immigrants don't want to apply or use public resources because they don't want to get caught and deported. \n\nThose of you idiots out there who believe other wise need to get your heads out of your ass. Stop watching Fox News or CNN as your sole source of information and stop being a minon of the right wing. Left wingers also have to step off their high horse that laws need to be enforced and also realize that their are problems with illegal immigrants too. Some of them are scum that run drugs and committ crime and these people need to be deported or locked up.\n\nImmigrants legal or not made America a great country and immigrants work the jobs that most Amercian born or immigrants who have been here awhile would refuse to do. \nDon't be an idiot and scape-goat all immigrants as evil that will consume America. Our own greed and the selfish rich ass holes that are in the White House are the ones fucking up this country not illegal immigrants.
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http://judiciary.senate.gov/press.cfm\n\nEveryone needs to burn up the phone lines, mail and internet inboxes with this issue. There is alot of propaganda be spread around about what we spend each year to allow ILLEGALS to stay here, jobs that they are taking from Americans, taxes they do not pay into, their intentions etc.\n\nRead on\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/stoptheinvasion/\nhttp://www.humaneventsonline.com/index.php\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/lists-PMRb1p42aacMueZmc_FaRn89U4XQsyz9cyAO?n=25480\nhttp://www.numbersusa.com/interests/amnesty.html\nhttp://www.cis.org/articles/2004/back704.html\nhttp://www.theamericanresistance.com/issues/amnesty.html\n\nIF YOU KNOW OF ILLEGAL EMPLOYERS HERE IS THE WEBSITE TO REPORT THEM ALL.\nhttp://www.wehirealiens.com/
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There is a huge incentive for poor people in a desperately corrupt country to face almost certain death to come to a place where there are far too many short-sighted employers who are willing to sabotage our country by circumventing the whole idea of supply and demand for labor. The problem is not that Americans will not do the jobs that are needed, but that they are not willing to do the jobs for the wages that are offered. Supply and demand says that if you want labor in a tight market, you have to pay what it is worth. By purposefully recruiting desperate people who are entering illegal, and thus cannot defend any human rights they have, the employers are able to pay slave wages, charge for mimimum wage, and pocket the difference.\n\nWe the people are the losers. Instead of building a wall to keep out immigrants, we should deport criminal employers.
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The government does to reap benefits from cheap labor in the form of lobbyist (in support of big business) who support their campaigns financially. \n\nWhy is this not a no brainer for most people?\n\nNot only that, Mexican's aren't the only illegals in the country, there are large amounts of Asians (who cross the border illegally) and a growing number of Easter Europeans (who come as guest workers but stay even after their visa's expire) here illegally in this country.  \n\nI had a friend (Eastern European, from Bulgaria) who was brought here by a Bulgarian company that partnered with American companies to set up Bulgarian workers to work for American companies.  She worked pretty much like a slave for Six Flags (from sun up to sun down for $5.75) for months until she just quit.  In order to keep from becoming illegal, she became a student a "school" (I say school because the place was a small office in an office park that looked more like an apartment building) where she paid them $800 every 3 months.  She finally couldn't afford it anymore and stopped paying and is now illegal.  \n\nThere are more where she comes from and the number keeps growing as companies continue to ship people in to exploit them.\n\nThe U.S. Government inacted NAFTA, after which led to a huge jump in the number of illegal immigrants from Mexico.  That would be in my opinion the way in which the government is allowing illegal immigrant labor to keep wages low.  How is that a conspiracy theory?