Illegal Immigration: benefit or harm to our economy?

Question

I just need some help, this is for a project in my economics class.
I think is a benefit to our economy, because, who else will work in the 'No American Jobs'? Like, contruction.

So please i need your thoughts.

Answer 1

I PERSONALY THINK THAT THEY WOULD BE GOOD BECAOUSE WHO WOULD DO THE JOBS THAT AMERICAN PEOPLE DON'T WHANT TO DO? AND BESIDES THE "AMERICAN'S" ARE ALSO IMMIGRANTS REMMEMBER? THEY CAME HERE ILLEGALLY ALSO!!!!

Answer 2

The benefit is to individual businesses that do not want to pay state and federal income taxes. The businesses also do not provide health insurance coverage that normal businesses would. Thus illegals must rely on public welfare institutions (i.e tax payer) for food and medical treatment. The Supreme Court ruled in the mid-nineties that states cannot refuse to provide medical or educational aid to illegals. So we all flip the bill that these businesses that use illegals avoid paying.
Your "No American Jobs" is not exactly correct. Construction companies are by law required to hire US citizens and green card holders only. Construction companies that employ illegals do so for the reasons I mentioned above, i.e taxes, medical insurance rather than lack of labor.

Answer 3

There are plenty of Americans that will do construction work. Companies choose to hire illegals because they can pay them less. The illegals deplete our social services. Most of the income that they earn goes back to their own country. Most do not have insurance and they leave hospitals holding medical bills that they can't collect. They run from accidents, and any liabilites to escape deportation or jail time. Drug trafficking is out of control. Most meth is now coming from Mexico. Do more reseach and you will understand. The benefit is when they are on a worker program to harvest our crops. This was the work that was hard to find workers for in the U. S.

Answer 4

the full reason we're not making a actual attempt to crack down on that's due a attractiveness it enables. that's a political recreation - Say this is incorrect and make some token efforts to assuage one area, at a similar time as truthfully doing somewhat condoning and on occasion even encouraging unlawful immigrant hard artwork. it is likewise a recreation as to what unlawful immigrants we've, what they do and what help they get. To have a single unlawful immigrant who's offering a service at a cost no person else needs is one situation. To have a family contributors who's doing little and residing off our social classes is something else. i'm conversing concerning the financial equipment of if - not the ethics. ~

Answer 5

I am an employer. I DO NOT hire illegals. I have some friends who are employers to & we all agree it is to expensive to hire illegals in the long run.First the fines if you are caught for hiring illegals is stiff.The benifits are not there. Most of my 131 employees have been with me for at least 5 years, coming to work every day & on time.The employers who do hire illegals do so to make the bucks in a hurry because they know a illegal is not going to stay long because they need to stay one step in front of the law. Yes some BIG companies may be able to afford the fines & hiring of new people all the time but I cant. So I save time & money & only hire LEGALS.

Answer 6

I know many americans that work construction, construction workers get paid good. The fact of the matter is that there will always be someone to work the jobs. Illegal immigration drains our economy through hospital costs, medicaid, and welfare. Most people that hire illegal aliens are involved in smuggling themselves and they pay illegal aliens slave labor prices. Businesses get busted all of the time for pimping out illegal aliens. They get brought into this country and some become sex slaves becasue they owe so much money to the people that smuggle them in. They rent a place from the smuggler and get charged more by them in rent than they make from the smuggler for getting pimped out. IT's a no-win situation.

Answer 7

Here is an article you might be interested in.

First off it is a myth that American people will not work in those jobs. Many many American citizens have been put out of business because they refused to hire illegal aliens for less pay in order to compete.

Answer 8

It is a harm. Legal immigrants and citizens will work those jobs. I know people who do. They cost us an outrageous amount of money. We give them free medical care, most do not pay any taxes, they send millions of dollars back to their families in their home countries, we pay for their children to go to school, etc. If there are benefits to illegal immigration, I think the cost definitely outweighs them.

Answer 9

Major harm. Immigration of poor people is limited to protect wage levels from being undermined and to protect our schools for our children, hospitals for our sick and services for our poor. Look at the demographics of ESL students and test scores in Arizona and California at www.greatschools.net (click 'achievement' or 'students' when you pull up a school or school district). Education allowed upward mobility and economic competition and unfettered illegal immigration and stretching the funds we pay to cover the poor illegal immigrants' children is ruining our schools and canceling school programs. It is also closing emergency rooms and maternity wards where illegals have too often resorted to health care without ability to pay.

I would never say deny health care to someone in need of emergency care, but we should absolutely deport when they have stabalized. We are encouraging and sustaining illegals who break our laws to render our own people non-competitive.

Answer 10

Nothing but harm.(most) Illegals =crime. Did you know Mexico brings in 40000 Guatemalans per year to do the jobs the Mexicans wont.

Answer 11

I think it's both. On the pro side, they are willing to do jobs Americans don't want to do, on the other, there are Americans who need jobs too.

How weird that you have a project on that, so do I!!!