What is affecting the economy more, immigrants or uncontrolled imports?
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I have seen factories close factories in the USA just to save 10 cents to make a jacket, outsourcing to China or Mexico, I have also seen the traffic in the streets increasing because suppliers have to transport the imported water, the imported clothes, the imported electronics. Aren't we capable enough of producing more and only importing the necessary? Yes, a lot of people benefit from imports but is only 1%, the rest have to pay extra to bring it here, then get stuck on traffic 2 hours a day because "it" has to be delivered to someone who much rather to kick out every cheap immigrant who can make things here, spend at least some money in rent, food and other basic things, money which will stay here no matter what. One way or another there must be a balance here, we must think about why we must drink water from the French Alps instead of local water, that has nothing to do with hating every immigrant, as if we are not all immigrants in some way. Balance Imports, Keep American Goods and Work in America.
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First, immigrants know that America offers many freedoms not available elsewhere, and they are aware of the fact that it is easy to "slip through the cracks." They can find labor easily because employers want to hire cheap laborers. It works out for both parties. In addition, the crime market is easily accessible to them and they know that heavy profit lies in drug trafficking. Drugs are available and very profitable to them.
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Anti-immigration...that will have a great impact on the labor resource market, won't it?
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disadvantages: we would lose a large part of the west coast's workforce.  we would lose millions of dollars in work left undone.\nexample: in the east coast, there were rumors that the gov't would do sweeps for immigrants, as a result tens of thousands didnt show up to work.  Millions of dollars were lost in tons of work that wasnt done.  put that on a scale of 10 times and u get a major drop in the US's economy.
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Yes I do.100%.  According to the anti-immigrant people, "immigrants are a drain on society."  If this is true, then during the day on May 1st the stock market will surge, and the economy will boom.  If not, we prove them wrong once and for all.  We know what will happen! \n\nThe people who say that they will buy more things on that day say that because they know that this boycott will affect the u.s. economy and then they say it's pointles!Don't pay attention to them if it was "pointless"  they will not say that they will buy more things on that day.
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They are not being blamed for driving down the economy.\nPeople are torqued about immigrants coming into country illegally.\n\nPreganant women time their entry into country.\nThey cross the border and wait in hospital parking lot until they are well into labor. Then they go into the hospital.\nIf a child is born in America. The child is officially American. Irregardless of whether the Mom crossed border illegaly eight hours earlier. That has to change.\n\nPeople are upset with the concept of Mexico  dictating domestic policy to us.\n\nMexico is corrupt.\nThey use America as pressure release.\n\nThey like the money that is sent from relatives working in America illegally.\n\na lot Americans resent display of foreign flags en masse on U.S. soil. \na lot Americans resent the display of American flags in upside down position.\nWhen an employer uses illegal workers the employer that is in compliance with the law suffers financial loss.\n\na lot Americans resent the attitude of the immigration reform groups. They are saying ...basically..."screw American immigration laws."\n\nHow does "screw Ausralian immigration law" sound\nOr Japanese immigration law.\nor Norwegian immigration law.\n\nwe are here and we are going to do what we like.\nwe will avail ourselves of all the social services we possibly can.\n\nWe will strain the school systems to the limit and DEMAND bilingual education. \nDEMAND DEMAND DEMAND!!!!\n\nWe will form all the dangerous gangs we like and we will deal drugs whenever we like.\nCrime and drugs rampant in Georgia.\n\nThey are saying.....\nYou can't fingerprint us, you can't check to see if we have criminal records.\nWe don't have to have social security cards and we don't need identification. \nand we can work off books and not pay social security taxes and Federal income tax.\n\nI am American.\nWhat country are you from?\nWould your country tolerate this attitude?\n\nIf these people are so keen on social justice.\nIf they are such ardent social activists.\nIf they are so concerned about the welfare of their own people.\nThen why are they not marching in Mexico City to change their own corrupt government?\nwhy ?...cause they'll be shot!\nI haven't  heard of large protests in Mexico.\nThey cross the border illegaly...then they protest.\nwhat that all about?  \nThey come across border illegally and then make demands on us..\n\nWhat country are you in?\nWhat would the authorities in YOUR country do if people entered YOUR country illegally and than said to hell with YOUR laws?\n\nRacism???BILGEWATER!!!\nMexican, Honduran etc...these are nationalities ...not races..\nRacism is an emotionally charged buzzword...that is all..\n\nRacism?\nIf I went into Holland illegally. \nThe authorities would handcuff me , take me to airport and send me back to America....and I am white guy...so ditch the racism argument.\nno temporary visas...no slack.\n\nHow would your country react to all this?\nWhy does the world hold America to higher standard and demand that everybody that wants to enter America is ENTITLED to enter America. And once in the country are subject to different standard than people from further away countries who  submitted their immigration requests through proper channel.\n\nAnd by the way...If America is so unjust and America is a racist state and Americans are intolerant to the point of xenophobia.\nthen\nWHY IN THE HELL DO all these people want to come here.\n\nIf everybody that wanted to live in America was able to just come on over.\nThe popululation of America would exceed that of CHINA.\n\nWhy is this unjust racist predatory capitalist war mongering country so desirable?\n\nthink about that.
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Obviuosly you are one of those who think only rich housewives benefit from immigrant labor. Agribusiness and a lot of manufacturers in the south rely heavily on illegal immigrants. Why would it not go up? I'm surprised it didn't go up more, but I guess the big guys waited to see what the backlash was.
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Dont Make Me Laugh\n\nThe Economy Will Stabilize When Theyre All Deported
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During his testimony during the Senate hearing last week, economist Professor Richard B. Freeman, Program Director of Labor Studies at the National Bureau of Economic Research noted that in no job category do immigrants constitute a majority. I believe he said 30% was the highest concentration. So literally there is no job that Americans don't do. Not theory, but fact.\n\nHowever if shortages of labor do occur the normal economic responses would apply. Raising compensation to attract workers or increasing the efficiency of workers through mechanization or other methods is what's usually done. There may be certain jobs that don't make economic sense. The existence of a huge pool of willing workers of has encouraged the use of labor where it would not have occurred had our immigration laws been enforced. It's not like the economy won't adapt. That's what markets do. \n\nYou also have to realize that just as illegal immigrants don't take jobs from legal residents in a zero sum calculation, their absence will also mean that fewer jobs will need to be done. Illegal immigrants, like everyone else, aren't just workers. They are also consumers of goods and services and when they leave that role, a certain number of jobs that are related to that consumption will also not be needed. \n\nMy hope the increased demand for labor will allow teenagers  once again to enter the world of work. And even more important for our society, the disturbing level of unemployment among black males and the social problems that creates could be reduced. I would also like to see prisoners work. There is no rehabilitation without work. Work is what responsible members of a society do.
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A normal healthy economy does not depend on immigration. Mass immigration normally does more harm than good by promoting social unrest, breaking infrastructure, destablizing population, and increasing poverty. Immigration requires three conditions to be a good thing: 1) there is somewhere for those people to go, 2) there is something for them to do and someone to pay them for it, and 3) they are willing to assimilate into the existing culture. Without those three then you have high crime, poverty, and/or invasion.
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cheap import due to their cheap labour
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Worst possible senerio would be the default of the Treasure and the collapse of the US and then the World Economies. What needs to happen is for the USA to stop spending increases and raise taxes. Tarriffs on imports would also help the American economy by making the price of imports higher relative to domestic products. The Unions are not helping situations either. I agree that the objective for all workers is to make as much money as you can, but to insist that you make so much money that you bankrupt the company is stupid. If the company does not make money , then neither do the employees in the long run. It is very dangerous for the United States to run a trade deficit, especially with a country like China.
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There are many issues here.\n1) Imports may be cheeper and still be as good or better.\n2) Importing goods is "exporting" jobs. Can lead to unemployment and downturns in the local economy.\n3) Limiting imports stops local firms from improving production processes as they make good profits under their production.\n4) Sometimes imported goods don't have the warranty and after sales service as local goods.\n5) Importing from one country often opens the door to exporting to the exporting country.\n\nCan be advantageous but has disadvantages as well.
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Another aspect is the intellectual capital that we get to import when we make immigration a simpler process for certain immigrants.  In other words, the U.S. gets smarter when we bring in smart people from other economies.
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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.
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If illegals are sent back to their countries (not all illegals are mexicans), it is going to hurt our economy. Lots and lots of them have bussines around and debts and ongoing credits, the loss of moneys would be too great for commerce. Also, there are jobs that won't be filled, like right now, in florida farmers are starting to complain about the shortage in help to pick their oranges, tomatoes and strawberries, I'm already expecting an increase in vegetables price for next year.
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yes it does.... when ever money is being spent it helps the economy.  I don't agree with illegal aliens working here but it still doesn't change the fact that it does help the economy..........