Is it ridiculous to suggest that the the greatest country in the world would crumble without illegal aliens?

Question

The USA?? The most powerful country in the world and our 10 trillion dollar economy rests on the back of 10 million criminal tresspassers?


Especially when you ignore the billions of dollars in cost to education, medical care, and welfare benifits? How rat like are these politicians?

Answer 1

NO! We would just have to be a bit more creative with our labor force.
Here, in Oregon, a year or so ago the illegals all took a day off work just they could demonstrate at the state capitol. Most of them lost their jobs. However, the day it self - was great; you could go into a fast food place and order without someone asking for an interpreter, there wasn't much traffic and there wasn't Mexican music blarring from radios.

Answer 2

You are only looking at a part of the picture. It probably is ridiculous to suggest the nation would crumble with the loss of these people. However, there is no doubt there will be impact. First of all the current estimates are between 12 and 20 million not 10M. If you will look at ongoing fiscal impact studies in North Carolina and Nashville, TN where local government as received authorization to arrest and deport you will see estimates of financial loss in the area of $12 million dollars for the first year alone.

We definately need to do something. However, we need to react to the whole picture and not just the conservative side or the liberal side.

Answer 3

These politicians are being realistic.

Conservatives like free trade. Liberals demand minimum wage. Want to get rid of illegals? Something's got to give. Either allow Americans to work for pennies on the dollar or impose high tariffs that will make Chilean fruit cost as much as American fruit does.

If we keep the system as it is now, our produce sector will collapse if made to compete with foreign countries that do have cheap labor bases.

Just ask Washington State asparagus farmers. Chile has all but put them out of business.

Answer 4

No I doubt it would not crumble, however things would become more expensive. Specifically fruits and vegetables, gardening, cleaning, etc. Just so you know illegals cannot get welfare, they have to be citizens. The questions isn't if the United States is going to fall from it's "greatest country in the world" status, the question rather is when? Kingdom's rise and Kingdom's fall, it's a fact of life.

Answer 5

Only manufacturing lobbies are asking your government to keep them, or else they will flee to China... Let be it, lets close our toys and clothings factories and build more school and hospitals, while increasing our technological development and research using Asia as a cheap manufacturing hubs. We must keep the ideas and innovations flowing and sent the small change be done somewhere else, this is the only way that standard of living of the people in the US would raise, not by keeping sweatshop jobs over here, as they mostly bring cheap wages and social trouble, as well as more pollutions...
So why keeping something that has the potential to disrupt the social fabric of the US!! This is simply mad if they are doing so only regarding money...

Answer 6

Yep, it's ridiculous. There would be a short-to-medium term impact on the economy--how great is debatable--but after getting the illegals out and streamlining the process to bring in legal workers who have a place for their efforts the nation would be stronger.

Answer 7

Just another example of crooked politics..Tax payers pay for everything about this illegal immagrant thing going on!!!We pay for those bilingual signs,as well as when it comes tax time.The politicians all make out from this crap move.Its breaking the law..They spend all this wasted money on drugs and they never go away..What makes them think any money going to this crap cause is going to fix anything...WHY,because they all make out from it,thats why....If they didnt get something out of it ,they wouldnt bother..thats the problem with todays politics..

Answer 8

It is ridiculous. And, to call the politicians "rat like" I believe would fall under the animal cruelty act???

Answer 9

that's a good question.....we're paying bad wages which helps the economy, but then we get hit with paying for their education, health care, and walfare.....I think we may be crumbling under the present system.

Answer 10

Tomatoes and Cheap Labor



This should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent

From a California school teacher - - -"As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:

I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels.

Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens , Huntington Park , etc., where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.

Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I'm not talking a glass of milk and roll -- but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my budget was already substantial. I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America . (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less then 3 months who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them "Putas" whores and throwing things that the teachers were in tears.

Free medical, free education, free food, day care etc., etc., etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?

To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.

Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases etc., etc, etc. For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.

We need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won't have the guts to enforce it.
Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?

There are many hardworking Hispanic/American citizens that contribute to our country and many that I consider my true friends. We should encourage and accept those Hispanics who have done it the right and legal way.

It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate, and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about "politically correct" that we don't have the will to do anything about it.

If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to everyone you know.

CHEAP LABOR?
Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is about?

Business doesn't want to pay a decent wage.

Consumers don't want expensive produce.

Government will tell you Americans don't want the jobs.

But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase "cheap labor" is a myth, a farce, and a lie. there is no such thing as "cheap labor."

Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or $6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200 free.

He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.

He qualifies for food stamps.

He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.

His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.

He requires bilingual teachers and books.

He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.

If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI. Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of this is at (our) taxpayer's expense.

He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.

Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.

He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.

Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills and his.

The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.

Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people. THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR EITHER PARTY. 'AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON'T DO AS THEY SAY, WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM AT ONCE!'

THIS HAS GOT TO BE PASSED ALONG TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE OR WE WILL ALL GO DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE A FEW DON'T CARE