Who Gains from Unchecked Illegal Immigration?
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ILLEGAL ALIENS Of ANY RACE/Nationality Are A Tremendous Burden On The Hardworking , Taxpaying CITIZENS Of Our Nation \n\nThey MAY/MIGHT Work.. But Many Do Not And Contribute To The Already High Crime In Our Country And IF They Are Criminally Prosecuted, It Is YOU The TAXPAYER That \nSupports The Heavily Burdened Judicial System And YOU The TAXPAYER That SupportsThe Criminal In A Prison\n\n\nILLEGAL ALIENS OF ANY RACE/Nationality Also Contribute To The High Cost Of HEALTH CARE Because They Have No INSURANCE And Its YOU The TAXPAYER That Supports The System That Governs The Health And WELFARE That Many ILLEGAL ALIENS Take\nAdvantage Of Through Their(Possibly)Legal COUSINS Who MAY Or May NOT Be Citizens Of The US(ILLEGAL ALIENS Forge Documents Too...NoBody Said These People AreSTUPID...) But They ARE NOT CITIZENS And WE THE PEOPLE Should NOT Be Made To SUPPORT \n\n(This Is A MAJOR CONRIBUTION To YOUR EXTREMELY HIGH HEALTH INSURANCE RATES Folks)\n\nILLEGAL ALIENS Of ANY RACE/Nationality Are A Burden To OUR (AMERICAN)Education System By OVERCROWDING Classrooms,And Making It Virtually Impossible For(Underpaid) Teachers To Give The Neccessary Time And Attention To The Individual Students\n\nLegal immigration is a good and healthy thing for a nation, because it is done at a rate and in a way that allows a country to collectively decide what sort of labor/jobs ratios it wants to maintain. Limitless illegal immigration, however, leads to the modern-day equivalent of \nslavery, benefiting only the conservative corporate elites. \n\nThe pro-illegal immigrant crowd tells us that we need to be humane in our handling of illegal immigrants. These are people that violate American law only because they are looking to make better lives for themselves and their families. They tell us that these are people living in poverty with no way out. They come here to live the American dream, and they violate our laws to do so.\n\nWe're also told that these immigrants are simply doing the jobs that Americans won't do. If there were no jobs of this type, there would be no motivation to enter the country illegally. Basically, if there was no market for illegal immigrants, there would be no illegal immigrants. We have to try to empathize with those that are simply trying to make a living for themselves and their families. We need to be understanding and humane when dealing with a population at finds itself in a situation where it must break our laws to better their own situations.\n\nWell, then what about the poor young man who grows up in the inner city? All that he knows is the drug culture. He has no marketable skills as a result of an education system that has failed him. He spends every day immersed in a culture of drugs and violence, to the point that that is the only life that he knows. He finds himself with a family to support and no way to support it. The only alternative for him is to resort to breaking our laws. He must deal drugs just to get by.\n\nShouldn't we take a "humane" and "comprehensive" approach to dealing with this type of criminal, as well? After all, he is only breaking our laws because he feels that he must do so in order to make a living. He wouldn’t be able to sell drugs if there wasn't such a huge market for his poison in the United States. Individuals that turn to dealing drugs are many times just as desperate as those that brave unbelievable conditions to enter this country illegally. In fact, I would argue that a drug dealer braves even more real and serious dangers than immigrants who can’t seem to take the basic steps to enter this country legally.\n\nAll of this to illustrate the absurdity of a "comprehensive" approach to illegal immigrants, and the more radical of the illegal immigrant advocates who are proponents of an "open borders" policy. We don't take a comprehensive, humane approach with drug dealers because they are breaking our laws and causing great dam
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Illegal/undocumented are synonyms.
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Legal immigrants do recieve SSN and pay taxes. Illegal immigrants don't because they come here illegally.   Illegal immigrants don't get unemployment, disablities, and retirement benefits.
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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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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR\n\n\nAppropriate Procedures. Unemployment benefit payments to illegal aliens can, largely, be prevented by more careful verification before a first payment is made. Following is the recommended general procedure for implementing a verification system. Specific procedures must be developed jointly with the INS.\n\nWhen a claimant indicates that he or she is not a U.S. citizen, the claimant should be asked to produce his or her immigration document. If the claimant does not have a document, he or she should be advised that no determination of eligibility will be made until such time as the claimant returns to the local office with the required document\n\n        Immigrant Entry and Native Exit \n\nLooking first at all workers shows that between March 2000 and March 2005 only 9 percent of the net increase in jobs for adults (18 to 64) went to natives. This is striking because natives accounted for 61 percent of the net increase in the overall size of the 18 to 64 year old population. \n\n\nAs for the less-educated, between March of 2000 and 2005 the number of adult immigrants (legal and illegal) with only a high school degree or less in the labor force increased by 1.6 million. \n\nA national unemployment rate of 5 percent is irrelevant to the current debate over illegal immigration because illegals are overwhelmingly employed in only a few occupations, done mostly by workers with only a high school degree or less. In these high-illegal occupations, native unemployment averages 10 percent — twice the national average. Moreover, the unemployment rate does not consider the growing percentage of less-educated workers who are not even looking for work and have left the labor market altogether. It would be an oversimplification to assume that each job taken by an immigrant is a job lost by a native. What is clear is that the last five years have seen a record level of immigration. At the same time, the unemployment rate of less-educated natives has remained high and the share that have left the labor force altogether has grown significantly. Wage growth has also generally been weak. Thus it is very hard to see any evidence of a labor shortage that could justify allowing illegal aliens to stay or to admit more as guestworkers. Rather, the available evidence suggests that immigration may be adversely impacting less-educated natives. The statistical findings of this study are consistent with other research that has looked at the pattern of immigrant job gains and native loses in recent years\nhttp://www.cis.org/articles/2006/back206.html\n\n\n\nThe U.S. unemployment rate today is at the highest level in 20 years. \nMillions of hard-working Americans who are desperate for jobs can't find them, and both the short term and long term prospects do not bode well for many American workers.\n\nThe economic problems we face would be bad enough if all we had to contend with were a recovering economy, the continued threat of terrorism, and increased competition from foreign companies. \n\nBut a Congress that should be looking for ways to help unemployed Americans is busy opening the floodgates to millions of new immigrants who take jobs away from Americans - and also helping companies take the remaining jobs offshore.\n\nIt almost appears that our government is committed to making sure everybody in the world has a job - except Americans.\n\nHistorically, the U.S. admitted around 300,000 legal immigrants per year, but Congress changed our immigration policies back around 1965 and opened the floodgates. We now allow more than a MILLION legal immigrants into the country each year. A small number of these are refugees; some have special skills not easily found here. But an increasingly large percentage of those pouring through our borders are undereducated, unskilled workers who threaten the income of blue-collar workers, the backbone of America. Millions more come here each year ILLEGALLY, and the government does nothin
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ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS NOT A VICTIMLESS CRIME\nApologists for illegal immigration like to paint it as a victimless crime.  But in fact, illegal immigration causes substantial harm to American citizens and legal immigrants, particularly those in the most vulnerable sectors of our population--the poor, minorities, and children.\n\nIllegal immigration causes an enormous drain on public funds.  The seminal study of the costs of immigration by the National Academy of Sciences found that the taxes paid by immigrants do not cover the cost of services received by them. We cannot provide high quality education, health care, and retirement security for our own people if we continue to bring in endless numbers of poor, unskilled immigrants.  \n\nAdditionally, job competition by waves of illegal immigrants willing to work at substandard wages and working conditions depresses the wages of American workers, hitting hardest at minority workers and those without high school degrees. Ý \n\nIllegal immigration also contributes to the dramatic population growth overwhelming communities across America--crowding school classrooms, consuming already limited affordable housing, and straining precious natural resources like water, energy, and forestland.
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It wasn't.  Clinton inherited a clean slate from his predecessor.  The next time go to WalMart and see everthing there made in China, thank BJ Clinton. He made the godless Chinese "most favored trading partners".  He sent your jobs to Mexico(NAFTA), he anmestied 93,000 illegal Mexicans (letting them keep the US jobs they'd already stolen), encouraging the present flood of criminal entrants.
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as a former caseworker YES they do. Let me break it down, the federal government has a program called TANF which gives a monthly stipend to people on welfare as long as they participate in training or some form of education. It is received for a limited time depending on the state. If you dont participate, you don't get a check. Illegal immigrant mothers can receive the money only for their children and they are not required to do anything for this monthly stipend. Its free money for them, same thing with food stamps which many illegal immigrants get also, the welfare application even states that their information will not be shared with the department of homeland security.
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You have two different sides, touting two very biased sources... the facts are that some do pay taxes... some do not... it's silly to compare it to the European immigration because America was accepting so many immigrants then, compared to the small number now... \nAnd just because something is a law, doesn't nescisarily make it a good law... that the law in that one city that ducks have to wear pants...\nWho is benifiting most, American employers who abuse the labor from immigrants... \nwho is being hurt, probably the taxpayers to some degree... but it's probably the least of America's problems when it comes to overspending... \nI would rather give it to the illegal immigrants than in tax cuts and grants to the oil companies... those guys are much bigger crooks than any immigrants, and they are doing it "legally"... hahaha
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I think you hit the nail on the head. Some contribute to the economy; some don't. You can say the same for legal immigrants. Ditto for American citizens. More often than not, illegals contribute in some ways (by doing hard work cheaply and paying sales taxes on goods purchsed in the U.S.) and are a drain on the economy in other ways (given that their children sometimes require additional assistance in school if they're not fully bilingual). Most of them work harder than the average American does and do NOT expect or request welfare. (They are afraid of leaving a "paper trail" and hence many do not want to apply for such benefits.) But whatever the case, we should remember that our forefathers were all immigrants, legal or illegal, at one point in time.\n\nWe definitely need immigration reform, and I don't think anyone who has entered the country illegally should get automatic amnesty. On the other hand, labeling those who entered the country illegally but who have become a vital part of our society as "criminals" is pointless. We could label anyone who's ever gone over the speed limit as a "criminal", too, but that doesn't help you get a grip on excess speeding. All the jerks that run around acting superior and accusing law-abiding hard-working people who entered the country illegal of being criminals are simply ignorant, selfish, xenophobic bigots.
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No for several reasons. One, any illegal immigrant (from Mexico or otherwise) takes advantage of United States infrastructure without paying taxes, so that' just plain not fair. Two, having people in the United States with no records is dangerous. Every natural born citizen or legal immigrant has records somewhere. Three, when illegal immigrants work, they get screwed because their work is illegal and employers take advantage of that. Putting restrictions on immigration would ensure that all Mexican immigrants get fair pay and work hours.
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Based on the estimates of those in the country illegaly, my guess is nothing...
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illegal aliens work harder but white trash are rewarded more
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My belief is No!  I am a tenth generation American with many immigrant grandfathers, I am also Choctaw Indian.  My husband and I have been forced to deal with a decaying economy, and poverty because Illegal Immigrants come to America and Accept all the benefits every Legal Immigrant, and American has already earned.\nIs Stealing a crime?\nWhen you reap benefits that you have not earned you do not deserve them.\nAnd, that is what Americans are raised to believe.
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immigration has been causing the population to increase.  this has stimulated the economy, causing prosperity to many.
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Well there is really no way to know how many illegal ones come since they are undocumented. So every website you go to is just going to be estimating. This website says how many entered up to 2004: http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/statistics/
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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.