What good in there in illegal immigration?

Question

Answer the question please, I want to know and I am not trying to be rambunctious. Also try to leave personal feelings, sympathy, pity or Christianity out of the answers. Probably most of it is going to be economics or jobs. Anyway please answer.

Answer 1

The best thing about illegal immigration is cheaper prickly pear tunas. Man those are good, and 6 for a dollar.

Answer 2

None or not much that I know of. I guess it could be said there's a little good in that it may provide some cheaper labor than might otherwise be available --so as far as that goes, it may provide an immediate good for the employer-- but on the other hand the illegals also cost our society something, which their employers here, as well as others, are required to pay for, in taxes, so it isn't clear that their cheap labor yields a net benefit to the country. In other words, whatever good they bring may be more than offset by what they cost us. They're having much the same problems in Europe with their immigrants from 3rd-world countries.

Answer 3

There is nothing good in the act of illegal immigration, but there is some pros in the illegal immigrants. Those who do pay taxes never get anything back, making it a surplus to the economy. Also cheaper labor means cheaper products. I'm not trying to compare, but most illegal immigrants come here to WORK and it's what they do best. They tend to be more efficient than low-class citizens who really don't care they just want the money.

Answer 4

First off, "illegal immigration" is an artificial construct, given meaning only with respect to laws and regulations.

In terms of the United States, illegal immigration (for lack of a better term) provides cheap labor. Companies and providers of goods and services presumably would pass on the savings in labor costs onto cosumers in the way of lower prices. Similarly, individuals who employ cheap labor (i.e., housekeepers, gardeners, care providers, etc.) will have more expendable money to buy other goods and services. Lastly, the illegal immigration population itself is a viable market since it too needs to buy consumer goods, including taxable items that generate tax revenue.

From a broader humanitarian view, illegal immigrants, who would otherwise starve and/or turn to criminal activity such as theft or drug trafficking, have the alternative of working as cheap laborers.

Answer 5

There is a problem in the phrasing of your question. You call it "illegal immigration", which means that you have already bought into the system and its terminology. Remember, politicians give things names because they help win arguments, not because the names are accurate.

A better question would be: are there positives to a laissez-faire immigration policy?

Many economists will argue that there are. The general argument is that anything that makes doing any type of business more difficult (for example, having to go through borders checks, when a business's normal territory - were it unrestricted by such borders - would be able to cover a greater area), is harmful to the economy.

We don't have border patrols between states (or taxes for importing goods from one state to another, or quotas on potatoes from Idaho, etc.). The argument here is that every successful national economy in the world has many states inside of it which act as a free trade area. If this is done in the global sense, the overall health of the international economy increases, and everyone gets richer (remember, a rising tide lifts all boats).

This argument for laissez-faire immigration policy defeats many possible counter-arguments before they get off the ground. For example, in the specific case of the United States, maybe the best counterargument to laissez-faire immigration is that Mexicans who did not pay into the social security system will be able to benefit from it. Not only is this counteracted by studies that show that immigrants as a whole (who tend to be in their 20s) are net payers into the tax system, but the economist making the argument for laissez-faire immigration would point out that the government has already intervened in the economy with the social security system, and as such you should expect problems like this to occur.

There are several other economic arguments for laissez-faire type immigration. However, immigration economics is not my area of expertise, so I won't be able to make many arguments here.

One complaint is that "illegals" take American jobs. Studies have indicated that this is largely not the case (for the obvious reasons that they accept lower wage jobs, and accept jobs in sectors that are labor intensive, where basically the firm or employer will hire as many employees as are available). Furthermore, one must point out that money never stops flowing. The immigrant gets paid, and has to eat, and buys food (probably from Wal-Mart). They pay for places to stay, clothes and entertainment. If they send money back to Mexico, that helps to develop and sustain the Mexican economy, and the richer Mexico gets, the more American goods Mexicans can afford to buy.

One of the more interesting arguments in terms of Mexican "illegal" immigrants is that they have no interest in adapting to American culture. In counter-argument, one will point out that many Caucasian-Americans have grandparents or great-grandparents who still speak German and or listen to traditional folk music from where they are from. The large-scale Mexican immigration is not very old, and it tends to take at least a generation or two for people to Americanize. In fact, I just read a study a couple of weeks ago that indicated that by the average Mexican-American immigrant is not able to speak Spanish fluently be the third generation.

So, there is absolutely more to this issue than meets the eye. I hope I have shown that.

Answer 6

I don't see anything good in illegal immigration the same could be accomplished without all the law breaking and deception through legal immigration.

Answer 7

There is no good in people violating another nation's soverienty and laws. It creates a situation in which there is hatred, hostility, and sometimes even violence. Especially when those who illegally immigrate show no respect for the country they are entering and protest that nations laws. It is hard to keep personal feelings out of it due to the fact it affects us all at a personal level.

Answer 8

I don't think it has any good about this.
I was mad when I saw the news two weeks ago about the home owers in San Diago feel sorry about the illegal immigrant from Mexico are camping in the desert in a poor condition.
Why don't they open their doors, let them stay in their house? right?

Answer 9

There is no good in it for us. Only for the illegal immigrants and the businesses who hire them and save money paying them low wages.

Answer 10

There's plenty of good in it for illegals and their home countries, but nothing good comes of it for the citizens paying the bill. That is the problem. They take and take then have the nerve to say we couldn't make it without them. I think it's time to test their theory.