immigration a strain on our resources?

Question

legal and illigal

Answer 1

No. Because people who have the courage, knowledge and get-up-and-go to immigrate are usually good workers and provide a great deal of benefit to the US economy. Especially legal immigrants!

I don't know where our country would be without immigration. Maybe it would be a lovely paradise of Native American technology, but it certainly wouldn't be the same place it is today. Many of America's best scientists were immigrants or the children of immigrants. I am willing to bet that *you* are a descendent of some immigrants, too.

Answer 2

Both legal and illegal immigrants pay taxes for the most part. These days you generally cannot get a job without showing papers. The difference is that illegal immigrants have to use phony papers, so they have to set up phony social security accounts. Therefore, they pay social security taxes, Medicare taxes and Medicaid taxes, but they are not entitled to collect any benefits. So illegal immigrants are actually contributing way more to the social security system than they are taking out. So you could make the argument that illegal immigrants actually strain our resources less than legal immigrants.

Answer 3

illegal immigration is a major strain on our resources due to a few reasons:
1. These ppl to not pay income taxes. They are benefitting from resources but not paying into them.
2. They are no licensed, drive without insurance, etc... so when they break the laws or are in accidents, the tax payers have to pick up the cost.
3. They utilize our emergency rooms to the point they are overloaded.

Answer 4

Finacially both the countries(immigrant and emmigrant) are benefitted. Genetically legal immigration of professionals is an uneven transaction. In this America or other developed countries are benefitted and the losers are the third world countries and developing countries from which the professionals emigrate. Critics often condemn brain drain as a financial loss for the third world countries. They bring out statistics in terms of money spent on training doctors, engineers, post-graduates and other professionals.
Between 1960 and 1976, about 4.5 lakh professionals migrated to the developed countries from the Third World. The value of this skilled migration is estimated at 3.5 billion dollars a year. But the financial loss is in a way compensated by the foreign exchange earned by the home country. The real loss is not monetary but GENETIC; the irreparable damage done to a nation’s talent pool. According to the famous Hardy-Weinberg Law of population in Genetics, gene frequencies in a population remain constant from generation to generation if no evolutionary process like migration, mutation, selection and drift are operating. Forces of natural selection are mostly ineffective in human beings because of the advances in cultural evolution leading to monogamy, therapy and other scientific discoveries. So under the present matrimonial system (monogamy), the frequency of a trait, whether good or bad, remains the same in a population. In other words the number of gifted persons in a nation remains more or less constant. In this situation the migration of a talented person depletes and gene pool of that country in that trait. This, in fact, is the tragic aspect of brain drain.
But this degradation of the quality of the public life is not a universal phenomenon. Many developed nations have a different story. The benefit of brain drain from the third world goes mainly to the developed nations like the USA, Canada and Australia. In these countries, the shortage of intellectuals are partly met by the flow of intelligentsia from other nations. Racial differences may also have accounted for the differential prosperity between nations but reliable evidences are lacking.
The recent immigrations to the US are mainly to cash the job opportunities and freedom and not for farming or gold. With this goal in mind, intellectuals and professionals from all over the world are pouring into America and in 1967 one in every three immigrants in the US was a professional. These selective immigrations have greatly enriched the American Stock. US made significant gains in terms of immigrants and scientists from Asia and Europe. The influx of scientists and inventors speeded up the process of technological development which also proved to be a vehicle of economic development.

UNCTAD estimates place the gains of the host country at around Rs.2.4 million in the case of an engineer, Rs.2.1 million in the case of a natural scientist and Rs.2 million in the case of a social scientist.
However, the storey may not be the same with regard to the illegal immigrants and unskilled workers and I have no details about it for the time being.

Answer 5

Legal immigration isn't a strain because when they come into the US the US makes sure that the new citizens are healthy individuals without a criminal background who want to integrate and be PROUD to be US citizens.

Illegal aliens ARE a strain on the resources because of just the opposite reasons above. Illegal aliens by and large come very sick...TB in the US has gone up 80% because of all the illegal aliens who have the disease... They have ALREADY broke the law by coming here illegally, and many illegal aliens bring illegal drugs to sell and then there are increase of thefts where they are. Just look at how many are in our jails and prisons! It gets me sick when I think about how America is being taken advantage of. Not only this but it is very unhealthy for illegal aliens to be living 20+ to one three bedroom 1.5 bath house!

Answer 6

Legal immigration is good for the economy because taxes are paid to the government and the money is spent in America. When income is earned by an illegal, the money goes to the home country for their relatives since member of their family are not in America.

Answer 7

legal? a benefit... we are all immigrants unless you are Native American.....
and Illegal? good and bad... they keep our country running, I mean who would really clean the toilets, pick the fruits, dishwashers, our maids. I don't want my kids to pick fruits for a living, do you? I believe that we have to create some type of workers program and close and secure our borders. before you ask me, 100% American and not racist.

Answer 8

Try 12 billion dollars in cash, up and disappeared.
But, was sent with no accountability.
Or what about Iraq contractors finally getting caught for billions of unjustified expenses. Haliburton for 4 billion was it?

Thats the real drain of our resources - the republicans lack of oversight, and their willingness to grant away our tax dollars to their friends companies.

Combine this with madame X up theres answer and you have the truth, plain and simple

Answer 9

Watch this YouTube Video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7WJeqxuOfQ

Answer 10

YES