Why do we need MORE low skill immigrants?

Question

The cost of low-skill immigrants in 2004 was 90 billion.
http://www.heritage.org/research/immigration/SR14es.cfm

These numbers included legal and illegal immigrants (16 million in total)

Wouldn't our country be better served by sponsoring Americans to relocate from overpopulated labor markets to places in need of labor?

Answer 1

THe theory is that our low unemployment rate restricts growth. The theory doesn't hold much water, because when we enter that situation, we should have a giant increase in pay. I agree about relocating people from under-employed regions, but to force people is a different story. People's pride hampers this.

Answer 2

We don't, the middle and lower class in the USA and Mexico need fair land distribution. Agra biz in both country's create these immigration problems. If you cant pick all the fruit on your land, you don't need that much land.
Considering that's not going to happen, immigrants for excess labor is great, illegally Foreign Nationals need to be tracked down and imprisoned, then sent back. Sent to the border with Guatemala, not the USA.

Answer 3

There are construction workers (and many other groups) that have joined together for Americans to get jobs that have been displaced due to over 20 million illegals. The only thing they charge is $60 dollars a day. But nooooo people want to stick to there slave labor illegal immigrants. The middle class is suffering.

Answer 4

Obviously we don't. That's why you have to meet a certain criteria to come legally! No police record, educated and able to support yourself,etc. How many of these illegals could ever be eligible for USA immigration laws? Maybe 1 of 100 or less, possibly 1 of 500. We don't need to import stupidity, we need to tax it!

Answer 5

We don't /need/ them. Many businesses and industries want them, because they can pay them low wages and place them in dangerous conditions in violation of the law, knowing that the illegals, as the designation suggests, will be unwilling to seek legal redress for such exploitation and abuse. Catering to such industries by willfully failing to enforce immigration law (the current strategy) or bringing in 'guest workers' (the proposed alternative) only perpetuates inefficient, outdated business models and retards the continuing development of our post-industrial economy /and/ the advancement of the developing economies from which said workers are enticed.

Answer 6

for this reason governments say immigration is sturdy for the rustic. It keeps down expenditures. Illegals are extraordinarily welcome considering the fact which you pays them subsistence wages and that they can't whinge. The unions do no longer help them by using fact they can't arise with the funds for to be union members. If unions helped, the illegals could ought to be paid perfect expenditures, for this reason preserving the roles of the less in a position members of society. the thank you to stop it? Make HR / workers directors of businesses in my opinion in charge for utilising illegals. Make all business enterprise directors , mutually and severally, in my opinion in charge for utilising illegals. AND make the penalty confiscation of all own components AND 10 years in detention center. Now ask your self why governments have not carried out this. by using fact there are maximum of illegals working as state workers of direction! possibly no longer rapidly yet for sub-contractors. fact a million. 30 illegals have been got here across working as cleaners contained in the main immigration place of work in Croyden, England. fact " The British minister who placed the hot immigration regulation by using parliament employed an unlawful immigrant as a house servant. (The undesirable unlawful replaced into jailed). style of proves my ingredient. detention center the employers.

Answer 7

Americans don't need incentives to relocate... when the jobs are there and they pay a fair wage, Historically, WE have been there to fill the need.

There is NO job a U.S. Citizen is unwilling to do, as long as it pays a fair wage.

Answer 8

Yes, we need more immigrants legal and illegal to pay for the Social Security mess our political leaders have gotten us into. Social Security is failing because the money goes into the general fund and is spent as soon as it gets there. That is why the Republican and Democrat politicians do not want to stop illegal immigration.

Answer 9

We don't - the millionaires and billionaires can't get enough cheap foreign labor.

They work real hard to not hire Americans all over this country.