Why dont american people accept that illegal immigrants help the economy and would hurt the USA if they leave?
601266
You must be a nonlaw abiding person. Illegal means illegal. They are breaking the law. So how are they helping are economy?
343685
I Agree With ohchiz(Above) To STOP This We Must Stop Employing Them, Make The Employers Responsible\nAnd They Will Go Home On Their Own\n\nThe economy is not going to collapse if the illegals go home, because they only make up 5% of the work force, and there are plenty of under employed americans to fill in after the illegals leave. Of course, we have to pay americans more and give them better work conditions.  These americans will spend their money here and invigorate the economy instead of sending some 20 billion a year to families overseas like the illegals do.  \nBusinesses like desperate laborers from poor countries because it's the next best thing to slave labor available.\nFinally, the illegals are good people, but it's not a question of who it is a question of how many.  Infinite growth in a finite space is illogical. On our way to collapse, we will lose our freedom.\n*************************\n***In Response To Ignatious(Below Me)\n\nNot NEARLY Impossible\nAnd We Can Do It Easily And Cost Effectively\n\nCongress Needs to pass a law that says, quite simply, that the CEO (ANY EMPLOYER) of any business that is caught employing ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS went to jail for a year - \nNO EXCEPTIONS - \n\nAnd We Must STOP Handing Them Social Services IMMEDIATELY\nA COLD TURKEY Approach - \nNO Health Care(Except Emergency)For ANYONE Not A Citizen\nNO Education Benefits For ANYONE Not A Citizen\nNO Welfare Benefits Of ANY KIND (Yes Including WIC Programs)\nFor ANYONE Not A Citizen\nSound CRUEL???\n\nWithin a month there would be ten million (more or less) people lined up at the Mexican border trying to get out of the United States And Back To Whatever Country They Came From. \n\nWhen They Cant WORK \nOr MOOCH Off The Systems \nThat Are Set Up For, And Supported By Taxpayers \nThey WILL Leave On Their Own\nOnce The Hammer Drops, And Is ENFORCED, \nThey Wont Come Back\n\nWe Wont NEED A "Wall"\n\nIf You Keep Feeding A Stray Cat, \nIt Will Hang Around Your Back Door\nWhen You Stop Feeding Him, He GOES AWAY
467998
Most of the world lives on less than 2 dollars a day. So a immigrant from Mexico can send money back and give an ok life to his or her family.  The minimum wage for US citizens is not a livable wage.  Thus, that's why people are not going to do these jobs.  You can't own a house, have a car, and have a wife and kids on minimum wage, that's why.  Secondly, undocumented people don't get many social services.  What's taking money away from our schools and other things is this war which cost 400 billion dollars.  If undocumented people would be taking this from our economy, that would be about $33,000 each person (12 million undocumented people).  Let me just tell you, you wouldn't see them standing by the Home Depot looking for any type of work then.
533892
if we didn't have illegal immigrants in this country working for such low wages, the economy would never survive. i doubt many american citizens would get down on their hands and knees to do all the dirty work that illegal immigrants do. if all of them in america decided to strike, we'd probably all go into inflation by the end of the week.
441474
Hi there,\n\nThere HAS to be an illegal immigration for the simple reason that without it you'd see huge masses of people coming in from poor countries and moving towards the richest ones, and not all necessarily willing to SUPPORT your economy. Living in Italy (A nation with many defects, including that of subventioning and supporting any single immigrant coming in, in a way or the other) we all noticed how to some extent the lack of control on immigration is affecting economy. If it's true that many immigrants work, it's true that MOST of them don't have a full time job (not even a part time most times). This causes our government to pay for all their needs (this happens also in most european countries with a peak for countries like the Netherlans where they give you a monthly amount of money, a house and a job as soon as they find one for you, but you can refuse and just lazy around because the government pays for you), increasing our social costs and therefore TAXES. Hence, leaving aside all the social, racial, political problems that may have not sense for an American, the illegality of immigration is required to keep an economic balance between the needs of the people living in that nation and the possibility to help those coming from outside, without affecting the life of nation citizens too much. \nTo those who claim things like WHO ARE WE TO SET BORDERS AND PREVENT OTHERS FROM ENTERING OUR COUNTRY i'd argue that they should say the same when they will begin to pay 60 or 70% of their income in taxes, mostly due to the fact that the government needs money to grant a life to all those FREE IMMIGRANTS wandering joblessly in your (or in my) country.
577571
The economy in this country is already horrible. It's going to keep getting worse. The politicians don't care because they will keep benefitting from the situation while more Americans plummit into poverty. There will be millions more homeless people and those who are wealthy will continue to say it's the poor's fault, spouting the usual lies.\n\nIllegals draw welfare by stealing people's social security numbers and identities. That means there are a lot of people being directly hurt by these people as well. Innocent people are having their credit ratings ruined, having IRS problems, and social security problems. If someone who has had their social security number stolen gets married, if either spouse dies or become disabled then they can be denied their benefits.\n\nMy family moved to the US before WWII. Those of my family that didn't make it over got killed by the death camps. Our family assimilated to the American culture. We didn't expect the Americans to change to suit us. The illegal immigrants from Mexico are not civilized like that.\n\nThey not only changed the National Anthem to Spanish, they changed the words. They already burn our flag and hang our flag upside down. They waved the Mexican flag during a lot of their protests. Some schools have stopped hanging the American flag and forbidden students from wearing clothes with any part of the American flag on their clothing all to keep from offending the Mexicans. It's nothing short of an attack of our country, not only by the illegal aliens, but those who seek to appease them.\n\nI am tired of the stereotype that Americans wouldn't do the work that illegals do. Illegals do all kinds of jobs for less than minimum wage which drives the wages down for U.S. citizens. Construction jobs are an example. There are lots of illegals doing construction jobs that Americans used to do because the companies can keep more of the profits if they pay less for the workers. All that does is make companies wealthier and Americans poorer. Illegals are stealing jobs that Americans have done for years.
649934
I'm against immigration entirely.\nwe have huge unemployment to care about. why are we bringing people from outside? \nmany claim that immigrants take less money and work jobs that Americans don't.\nbut i think that its the immigrants them selves are the main reason for that. no one should be paid less the minimum wage. and when no immigrants are working on their (so called) immigrants jobs, Americans will have to work there. I think that most of the immigrants are harming the structure of the American community and disrupting its balance.
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Immigrants legal or not do a whole lot of jobs that 99% of Americans wouldn't do and even if we somehow forced everyone of the unemployed to work there wouldn't be enough people to fill ALL the jobs that immigrants do.\n\nThe US economy wouldn't crash per se but would be placed in a serious world of hurt. \n\nThank God for all the hard working immigrants in our country. Remember that ALL OF OUR FOREFATHER WERE IMMIGRANTS!
934976
It is not difficult for them to find work as there as too many employers who are willing to hire them.  A lot of people believe that the immigrants are taking jobs away from Americans but that really is not true.  They are doing the jobs Americans wont do for the low pay.  Government on the state. local and federal levels needs to start being more harsh on employers who hire illegal immigrants.  A hefty fine for every illegal working would be a good start and closing down their businesses wouldnt hurt either and it is not just small businesses that hire illegals, large companies also hire them.
1122855
Illegal's are used by businesses & big business RUNS our government, together they keep wages too low to actually live on, reinforce the need for illegal's to work here & outsource other jobs to other countries, putting even more Americans out of work...Americans are being pushed out of our own country and our money and jobs are going to other countries, so big businesses can save money on wages & healthcare...I wonder why American's want imigration reform...
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Absolutely, they should stay. Our economy is extremely dependent on their labor. And as far as paying taxes go... every illegal immigrant pays taxes one way or another. Most pay federal and state taxes through their paycheck because they rent social security numbers from people not working. So not only do they pay taxes and social security, but they will never receive it. Also they pay sales tax on everything they buy. Also, if the US wasn't so discriminatory about our visa policy then it wouldn't be as big a problem. Do you honestly think an agriculture worker from Honduras can get a visa? Hardly.... we should be looking at that as well because we need the labor on farms, in the meat industry, garment industry, etc. Anyone who thinks we don't is blatantly basing their opinion on nothing. Perhaps we should start another huge worker program like we had up until 1960.....
900772
Because it is a MYTH! There are no hard working illegal aliens. If they were, they would not be here and would demand that their countries support them with a livable wage.. I avoid the myths. Americans are hard workers, we just don't whine about it!
683772
That's a great question.  I don't know but my guess is maybe they know they have a better chance of changing America than the country they came from. Most immigrants leave their country for economic, religious, or safety reasons.
570595
I have no problem with anyone who comes to this country legally taking any job they are able to do. But this is America and the jobs it produces are for Americans.  If you like our economy, our freedoms, our way of life, our laws, then by all means find a legal way to come join us, become one of us, add to our work force, our culture, support this country, and love it as we do.
1114196
Its a controversy beccause government officials and many individuals believe, with some credibility, that illegal immigration brings down wages. However, more sympathetic pro-immigration types believe that since this country was founded by illegal immigrants and that America has a tradition of incorporating everyone into the "melting pot", that illegal immigration should be allowed. There will always be controversy as long as there are competing intrests( I.E. some government officials and pro-immigrant people).
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Just for starters--it is agaisnt the law. They do not go back and they are on welfare. There are numerous programs that our tax dollars pay that support illegal immigrants.\n\nOther reasons--they undermine those that go to the trouble of getting a green card or work permit.\nThey are cheap labor and because they are illegal--often are abused by the American companys that hire them--they have no recourse because of their status.\n\nThey directly effect the wages Americans earn.\n\nI lived in El Paso for 20 yrs and we would go to the over pass and watch them run over. We all knew we could not go to that part of town because it is dangerous as not everyone coming over is doing so for work.\n\nToday--with the terror threat--we need to control our borders or we are sitting ducks.\nI am not anti-immigration but we have laws and I can tell you that it is not hard for those in mexico to get work permits.\n\nWhere I live now we have many from Eastern Europe and they do not go back either--they dont like us but they want to stay here.\nThey too tap into special programs and buy houses, cars and recieve business loans.\n\nI could go on and on just with my own personal experience but I will leave at the simple fact that for every honest hard working illegal there are two more with him/her that are up to no good.
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Absolutely NO!  \n\nI posted a question earlier asking anybody to give a benefit of illegal aliens being in the US. I did not receive one.\n\nThey HURT our economy in so many ways. Some examples? You got it!\n\nThey send a large percentage of their earnings back to their home country. (The money doesn't stay in the US)\n\nThey work for less money for unethical employers. The unethical employers can then sell their product for less which severely hurts the honest companies that hire legal workers.\n\nLoOK at all of our high school students protesting to allow illegals. The illegals are already brainwashing our children to think it's ok to disobey federal laws!  What else do you think they're teaching our kids?\n\nIf an illegal breaks the law to enter our country so he can work for less than minimum wage, what would he do for $5,000 or more?  Terrorism? Smuggling? Drug dealing? Treason?\n\nNO.  Illegals aliens should not be welcomed!  They hurt our economy. They take jobs from our children, our homeless, our unemployed.  They add absolutely nothing to our society. They have nothing to teach our children, they don't add to our culture. They have nothing to add to our communities.