What would happen to the US Economy without the half trillion dollars of income generated by Latin immigrants?
970392
The Knife Is NOT At The Throat Of The USA\n\nThe US Economy Will NOT COLLAPSE\nWhen 20 Million ILLEGAL ALIENS \nAre Unceremoniously DEPORTED\n\nWHEN The ILLEGAL ALIENS Are Deported\nAnd The Border Is Secure\nThe Nation Of MEXICO Will Suffer The Effects\nTenfold More Than The USA\n\nThe MEXICAN ECONOMY Will Fall To Its KNEES\n\n\n\n\n\nYour Article Is Propaganda From The Left\n\nIt Does NOT Distinguish Latin American Immigrants\nFrom ILLEGAL ALIENS
769029
No, already projected during puerto rico's influx. The US Society would be overwhelmed .
422364
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.
189982
It's just going to negatively effect the illegal immigrants...oh, and the Catholic Church's offering plate, oh, and the spanish language newspaper, radio and TV channels...and maybe we would only have a McDonald's every four or five blocks instead of every two. I could live with that!
494002
It will be devastating to the USA because of Family Unification/Chain Migration better known as bring in the Village. \nThe USA will increase its population from 300 million today to between 400 million to 1/2 billion in 20 Years. 40% poverty.\nhttp://www.heritage.org/research/immigration/wm1076.cfm\nCheck it out.
429525
If The United States of America will submit and grant amnesty and allow guest worker programs, the ENTIRE population of Mexico will come here, use up all our tax money, resources for their own selfish benefit.  Other countries will also protest to have the same benefit--UK, Asia, people from around other parts of the world would demand the same thing...the USA cannot allow Mexicans and not others.  So then, what would happen?  Well, the USA would become poor, unintelligent, and would perhaps eventually become a 3rd world country since students aren't being educated in English really, numerous drop outs, laziness, ando on top of it all--overpopulated.
341286
Not for long - the increased taxes would quickly slow the economy down and you'd either have to keep increasing taxes (screwing the economy), or cut the tax (defeating the purpose).
1009747
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.
331196
Immigrants contribute 7 billion in social security per year. they earn 240 billion, report 90 billion, and only are reimbursed 5 billion, "where are the 85 billion?"  They also  contribute to the U.S. economy 25 billion more than they receive in healthcare, etc., etc., etc.  According to the anti-immigrant politicians and hatemongers, "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\nTherefore, the "March 25th Coalition against HR4437 in Los Angeles," the organizers of the mega march of almost 2 million on March 25th, has called for an emergency videoconferenced meeting on April 8th between Los Angeles and any city that wishes to join the efforts toward "El Gran Paro Americano 2006."  The following meeting will take place in Chicago on April 22nd, we ask that all that wish to participate and be a part of a national effort on May 1st and beyond, to attend by finding facilities in your areas that can hold the meeting, technologically.
466477
No, Hispanics are not keeping the USA from collapse.~~yawn~~\nWe won't collapse regardless. You have no strength. If you did you'd be in Mexico fighting for your rights THERE, protesting THAT government to stop their corruption. You would unite with other Latinos that support you, go to Mexico City, MX and change your country so you could be proud, but alas, you have no noble attributes. You had rather come into the USA illegally and freeload off of us. Predictions have already been made about how much your little crybaby protest will cost the USA. It will be a mere $1 million dollars which is nothing when compared to what it would take to collapse our economy. You Latinos have been slowly putting nails into your own coffin. May 1st I will watch your funerals on t.v.
441024
The economy generally doesn't include tax revenue. The reason it's bad is that it takes the tax burden off of the 5% who control 95% of the money, and puts it squarely on the middle class.
586254
Better technology and medicine is a given. Gas prices will probably be higher. People will continue to complain about the economy but no one will do anything about it. We'll have a different president (the way things are going now, probably a Democrat), but we'll still have troops over in Iraq. TV shows like "The Simpsons" and "Friends" will continue to be on reruns every other hour. Americans will continue their dieting craze, but won't stop eating fast food. More doomsayers will emerge, just as people did right before Y2K. And as for resolving the immigration issue, I really have no idea...
678369
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.
308841
Dont Make Me Laugh\n\nThe Economy Will Stabilize When Theyre All Deported
1187669
Anti-immigration...that will have a great impact on the labor resource market, won't it?
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.
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Not all the inmigrants are mexican. So, first you should have to make a Marshall Plan for Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Dominican Republic and other countries.\n\nSecond, it's not true that there was no war. The US invaded Mexico, invaded the Dominican Republic (twice), invaded Nicaragua... Well, if you need an excuse to "pay" for what you destroy, they exist.\n\nBut, it's true that the US is running on deficit so they don't have money for a Marshall plan. You should have to start by ending all the militar cruzades in Asia. Then you will have money.\n\nTo continue, life is not so terrible, cruel and unbearable in all this countries. Point is... work is very very very cheap. So you don't have to spend money in infrastructure, you need to find the way to increase the income of this countries and reduce their debt.\n\nOne of the main sources of debt were the dictatorships that ruled many of this countries for an important part of the 20th century. Dictatorships supported by the US. So, another thing the US may do is stop supporting dictatorships and support elected authorities (even Chavez).\n\nBut another problem for this countries to develop is that their main source of income are commodities and the US (and Europe) are spending money in policies that help reducing the price of commodities. If the US and Europe stop this policies then commodities price should increase.