How do illegal immigrants take jobs away?

Question

They work for less? So why not pay them more? Who hires them? Other illegals or is it legal residents of the US who are to blame?

Answer 1

i dunno they didnt take my job away yet

Answer 2

"because usually these workers will do work legal residents wont do!" Lie # 1: I've seen just as many American citizens (you know those who are legal) doing the same work.


"THey cant get government payouts."
Lie #2: they get all types of government payouts: free education for family, they can help themselves to our welfare without contributing. They get free use of hosipitals, etc... Then again it isn't the government's money they are stealing it is your money.

"They have to work to eat/survive!" and this they can do at home. They hold elections in Mexico they can vote people out. People all around the world have to work in order to survive, so what's the point here.

"I guess they are just harder workers ! " Lie #2: go into the work force before you make a coment about this one. If work was a top priority in Mexico and life is so good why are they coming here?

So maybe we should pay them more, wonderful idea. Lets just give them are land, our homes, hell sell them your family as well. Maybe they don't have a family and you know everybody has a right to a family, so offer that up as well. How far are you willing to take this? Empty your pockets, donate your car. Why don't we just take everyone in this country and move south of the border and let them have our land instead, after all that is the "right thing to do".

Answer 3

Businesses hire them because they do not have to 1) pay payroll taxes for each illegal they hire. 2) they do not have to pay social security and FICA taxes, 3) pay workers comp if someone gets hurt. 4) they don't have to pay minimum wage. Typically the jobs that these people take are landscaping, construction, and other unskilled positions. So citizens of the USA who are unskilled are at a disadvantage because a person will work for less than minimum wage and the business does not have to pay taxes.

So the blame lies on Congress for 1) not enforcing existing laws, 2) the employers for trying to make more profit and avoid paying payroll taxes, 3) for illegals being in this country and breaking our laws. Until a fence is built and the flow of illegals is stopped, it will be a problem.

Answer 4

It used to be that teens would work the fastfood, landscaping and some manual labor jobs, sort of a rite of passage to have a crappy job. Ive noticed living in california and arizona that that doesnt happen anymore. Employers are to blame, for hiring them, breaking the law. the government is to blame for not having the nuts to enforce the laws that they already passed on the matter. the government of mexico is to blame for encouraging illegal immigration (they distribute pamphlets and desert safety kits) designed to help them break our laws. US politicians are to blame for they are intoxicated with the notion that these illegals represent the mother lode of a voting base, so they are eager to exploit them for their political aims, even if the dems have to commit voter fraud to do it. (the dems got cemeteries to vote democrat in the 60' election in cook country illinois, swinging the election to JFK, if they can get cemeteries to vote for them, its not a big stretch to get illegals voting) and ultimately it is the illegals fault for being the ones deciding to break the law.

I saw them in nearby cities here in cali, they ditched school, blocked the freeways, took the US flag down at the high school, put the US flag upside down and flew the mexican flag above the US flag. I have no respect for those who have no respect for our laws. Their allegiance is not to this country.

When they get false papers and steal someones social security number, they can ruin their credit, and ruin their lives. It is not a victimless crime. When an american commits fraud like this, they go to prison, when an illegal does it, nothing happens.

Our social services system in this country must be reformed to turn off the magnet that is drawing them here. Its time we took care of Americans first (citizens and legal immigrants).

Answer 5

Legal residents and companies are to blame. The fastest way to solve the immigration issue is to have very severe penalties for those individuals who emply illegals. Illegals take jobs away from blacks primarily - just look at the unemployment rate in Southern California broken down by race. They shoud allow US citizens to 'shoot to kill' those crossing the border illegally. You could have hunting tour guides along the border etc. and this would make a great sport.

Answer 6

You are retarded if you can't figure out why. Not all illegals are fuit pickers. I just read an article in Latina magazine that one was a receptionist. Also they drive the wages down. Yes Americans that hire them are to blame and they should go jail for that.

Answer 7

because they get up real early to apply for a job why does everyone assume illegals will take any job maybe when they first come to this country but not after a couple of years 2 of my brother-in law are still illegal immigrants and both get pay more than $11.00 hr for college kids i think thats pretty good

Answer 8

***Plenty of U.S. citizens work in construction, yet illegal Mexicans come into the system and work for $4 an hour and put them out of a job. There are plenty of white and black U.S. citizens that never graduated high school and need those types of jobs to support themselves and their families.***

Answer 9

illegally. They get false papers some of the time,others are employed for a pittance. Their employers know their backgrounds and take advantage of it. It's not just the U.S,it's worldwide.

Answer 10

Proponents of a new temporary worker program argue that increased immigration enforcement would lead to fewer illegal agricultural workers and, as a consequence, the American consumer would face a major increase in the cost of food. This is factually incorrect according to experts. Dr. Philip Martin, a leading academic authority on agricultural labor, notes that American consumers now spend more on alcoholic beverages on average than they spend on fresh fruits and vegetables.

An average household currently spends about $370 per year on fruits and vegetables. If curtailing illegal alien agricultural labor caused tighter labor conditions and a 40 percent increase in wages, the increased cost to the American family would be $9 a year, or about 2.4 cents per day. Yet for the legal farm laborer, the change would mean an increase in earnings from $8,800 to $12,350 for each 1,000 hours of work (25 weeks if the worker worked 40-hour weeks). That increase would move the worker from beneath the federal poverty line to above it. 2

According to Dr. Martin, "…consumers who pay $1 for a pound of apples, or $1 for a head of lettuce, are giving 16 to 19 cents to the farmer and 5 to 6 cents to the farm worker." 3 Therefore, a 40 percent increase in the 5 to 6 cents a pound that the farm worker receives would amount to an increase of about 2 cents per pound that would probably be passed on to the consumer.

Although this recent finding about agricultural labor and produce costs may not have been known by those making the alarmist statements about rising market costs, they certainly should have known better on the basis of earlier studies. For example, in 1996 the Center for Immigration Studies published a study by another academic expert that reported similar results. That study found that, "The removal of illegal workers from the seasonal agricultural workforce would increase the summer-fall supermarket prices of fresh fruits and vegetables by about 6 percent in the short run and 3 percent in the intermediate term. During the winter-spring seasons, prices would rise more than 3 percent in the short term and less then 2 percent in the intermediate term."

It is also useful to keep in mind that seasonal crop agriculture is only a small share of the value of the country's overall agricultural production. In 2004, livestock production accounted for 51.2 percent of total agricultural production while crops accounted for the balance. Among the crops, vegetable production accounted for 7.2 percent of total agricultural production and fruits accounted for 6.4 percent. Mechanized crops, such as corn, soybeans, wheat, hay, and cotton, accounted for a larger share of the value of agricultural production than fruits and vegetables.And even among the fruit and vegetable crops, some are harvested mechanically rather than by seasonal crop laborers.

When evaluating the claims of seasonal crop agricultural producers that they are dependent on illegal alien workers, it is useful to keep in mind that under current law there is no limit to the number of visas for legal entry of temporary agricultural laborers. There were 22,141 legal entries in fiscal year 2004 by agricultural workers using H-2A visas.

Why then couldn't the agricultural employers use the legal temporary worker program to meet their need for workers rather than hiring illegal aliens? They could, and some do already. However, the protections in that system for both American workers - so that it can be used only if there are not American workers available, and to prevent the program from undercutting wages - and for the foreign temporary workers - setting requirements for housing and wages - make it more expensive for employers than hiring on-the-spot illegal workers.

The lack of enforcement against employers who employ illegal alien workers has allowed so many employers to hire so many illegal workers that wages in seasonal crop agriculture have decreased over recent decades after adjustment for inflation. As a result those employers who want to have a legal workforce are at a serious competitive disadvantage if they insist on hiring only legal workers. This situation will not be reversed until enforcement measures are comprehensively and effectively administered to restore a level playing field in the seasonal crop agricultural sector.

Answer 11

why not just deport them then the problem would be solved!

No Amnesty (by any name)
Attrition thru Local, State & Federal Enforcement
Repeal the 14th amendment