What would be the positive and negative economic impacts of 5+ million employed people leaving the US?

Question

Talking what are often called illegal immigrant workers, not coming back from Mexico in January.

Impact on home values, cost of dairy products, decrease in taxes, impact on K-12 schools, safety, hotel rooms, cost of produce and meat?

Answer 1

In the short run, very disruptive. Hotels would be short of staff, various places would be without security guards, cleaners would be few and far between, and many shops would be short of workers. Laundromats and dry cleaners would not function. Some fruit would not be picked. There would be severe recession from the multiplier effects as other businesss would go under.

In the longer run, if Americans had to do those jobs the wages would be bid up until the essential jobs were done. The cost of living would rise. Technology would substitute for some work (maybe in street cleaning for example).

What a damnfool idea!

Now of course in reality nature abhors a vacuum. The jobs would be filled by people who could get, or didn't need, work visas..... such as American Samoans and Puerto Ricans.... and the rules for Vietnamese and Filipinas might just be bent a little....

Answer 2

Since you're specifying illegal --- the tax burden falls upon the state governments, not the federal government.

State/local governments pay for school systems, state governments fund the majority of medicaid.

The Federal government? They pay out social security. Guess what? Most illegals (with stolen SS#s) PAY into social security but they're never getting that money back. The Federal government, according to empirical research, comes out on top.



As for the economic impact of removing 5 mil workers who are primarily in the construction and food industries, I think it is pretty clear that food and housing prices would rise. However, in most communities there is a strong hispanic retail/service industry that has risen, so you'd likely see restaurants, doctors, stores, close up shop as well.


Immigration, as long as it is controlled/monitored, is generally healthy for an economy.
When that economy is heavy into the welfare-state stuff, then the general population tends to bear more resentment to immigrants.

Answer 3

it truly is already had a severly unfavorable impact on the state. that's what takes position at the same time as the purely right 2 govenors the following were women. Time to get the estrogen out of the govenor's mansion.

Answer 4

5+million U.S.citesons will have job's a gin.And I will get back my stolen Identity back.