If 30 million unskilled workers are good for the American economy; why not get 300 million or a billion?

Question

The notion huge importation of cheap unskilled labor “to do work no one else will do” with citizen benefits is good for the economy, is insane. Why have higher educations, if cheap unskilled labor is economic prosperity’s key? If it is such a good idea: why hasn’t Mexico, Latin America, India, China and other overpopulated countries with cheap unskilled labor been able to overcome new global market economic chaos? Why not open all nations’ borders and let unskilled workers enter freely like we do?

If 30 million unskilled workers are good for the American economy; why not get 300 million or a billion? If more is better, then bring it on. We can show the third world, population explosion is a good thing. Starving Africans “too lazy to work” may see the light and want more cheap labor to end famine.

Answer 1

Give it a few more years with a government that doesn't care enough to protect it's borders, we will have a billion and be a 3rd world country.

Answer 2

Uh, because that's how many unskilled JOBS there are.

Bringing in 300 million unskilled laborers doesn't make more unskilled jobs.

There are however many jobs here that don't pay much (so little and with no benefits, that no citizen will do them under those circumstances). So the people who offer those jobs prevent the government from cracking down on immigration law enforcement.

It's stupid to have this situation, and would make more sense to let the people doing those jobs be here legally.

If we don't, and we really do crack down on immigration law, then no one here will be able to afford to eat -- what with a head of lettuce costing $20, and chicken at $50/lb and all.

No one has said that education is a bad idea; we need well-educated people (for lots of reasons, including a need for specialty abilities, such as surgeons).

Having nothing BUT low-skill jobs isn't good for an economy.

If you spent any time actually thinking about things rationally, it wouldn't be such a mystery to you.

It's good to have people who can design computer software here; it's also good to have food here.

Is that too hard for you to comprehend?

(Apparently so, but I couldn't resist trying.)

Answer 3

"The notion huge importation of cheap unskilled labor “to do work no one else will do” with citizen benefits is good for the economy...

...is being used to brainwash you. And tells nothing of the truth behind the statement.

Unbeknownst to you China is fast-becoming the top world economic power many of its workers are skilled and work in 6 days a week, 12 hours a day in factories but guess what? They aren't sweating! That's just more brainwashing so that you stop buying products made in China. The Chinese work more hours because they want to.

Why all the deceit? Maybe its because the US has one of the largest trade deficits (in the world) with China. Meaning we owe China more than 400 billion dollars!
It is your own government using bearing down on you, agitating you to get you to react and be angry so that they can come and "rescue" you with their ready-made plans.

It's the US government you should be worried about not any Africans who don't care at all that you think of them as "lazy" anyhow. If you don't know what the real problem is you'll always be as frustrated.

Answer 4

The lies of the pro-illegals are insulting! "Jobs that no Americans will do?" These idiots must think we are really stupid!

What about all the people that wanted to work after Katrina - sorry, the illegals had them. Then there's the construction jobs, oops illegals have them. Remember the FEW companies that got raided by ICE, boy those line were really long with all the Americans that wanted those jobs.

Taxpayers are shelling out BILLIONS each year to pay for them. (California alone spends over $10 billion.) We could never get billions back in benefits from them.

We can't afford to pay for the current 30+ million illegal alien criminals. (Why can't the dweebs in Washington at least say that we have more than their stated 7 to 12 million? That's insulting!)

Answer 5

Low Immigration and Economic Growth




America’s experience with a low level of immigration provides a useful test of how that affects the nation’s economic performance.
Between 1925 and 1965 immigrant admissions averaged less than 180,000 persons per year.
During that period, the share of women in the workforce nearly doubled and minorities gained access to new job opportunities.
Over those decades, the economy not only grew significantly, it grew more rapidly than it has since mass immigration was again unleashed by legislation enacted in 1965.
One of the arguments currently made for increasing the intake of immigrants and guest workers is that it is vital to the health of the nation’s economy. If this were true, a tough choice would have to be made between economic stagnation and the social and environmental impact of adding further population growth on top of what is already too much.

Fortunately, there is no real dilemma. The economy can grow in a healthy fashion with a low level of immigration. How do we know this? Our economic history demonstrates this fact. We had a level of immigration between 1925 and 1965 that averaged less than 180,000 admissions per year. Illegal immigration during that period was not the serious problem that it is today.

During that period of restricted immigration curtailed in part because of World War II and the Depression the overall trend in economic growth was impressive. It was a time of rapid industrialization and mechanization, a major move from rural America and work in agriculture to the cities and industrial jobs. Women entered the workforce in large numbers. In 1920, according to the Census, 23.7 percent of women were in the workforce. By 1970, before the effects of the 1965 change in the immigration law had significantly expanded immigrant admissions, the share of women in the workforce had grown to 43.3 percent.

The best indicator of how the U.S. economy responded to the period of low immigration between 1925 and 1966 may be seen in data that recorded the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita over that period.

Answer 6

From what I have seen, all the entry level positions that used to go to non-college bound high school grads are going to immigrants. These entry level positions allowed high school grads to identify a career choice, and advance in life, now these jobs are mainly going to recently arrived relatives of immigrants. Young people getting out of high school also used to be able to get decent jobs as janitors and landscapers to pay for their way their through community college, or even to start their own companies.

Here are some statistics

There are 55,436,000 million Americans, ages 16-64, who are not in the labor force.
— U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey; July, 2007

Real wages in the US are falling at their fastest rate in 14 years.
— Financial Times; May 10, 2005

14 million Americans are unable to find full-time jobs in the current economy. — BLS

The unemployment rate among the 12 million American adults who do not have a high school diploma is almost 9 percent.
— BLS

Forty percent of working-age African-American men are unemployed.
— BLS

The disproportionate flow of undereducated immigrants to the U.S. has also depressed wages for native-born workers on the lower rungs of the economic ladder. In the last two-and-a-half decades, average hourly wages for male workers with less than a high school education declined more than 20 percent relative to inflation. For those with only a high school degree they are down almost 10 percent.

Typically, pro-immigration voices argue that immigration is essential because there are not enough Americans to fill all the low wage jobs. But if this were so, then the wages and employment rates of such workers should be rising as employers try desperately to retain and attract workers. Yet quantitative evidence for such a phenomenon doesn’t exist. The only evidence of a labor shortage comes from the employers.

Even the children of legal immigrants are struggling to find decent entry level jobs, and our rights as workers are being flushed down the drain.

I am not against immigration, but there needs to be some level of control. Immigration should be tied to rises in wages.

Answer 7

Sir, you do not go far enough!
Having imported the physically unskilled, why does USA not next import the mentally unskilled?
A bonanza of morons to be bilked by fraudulent investment schemers and unscrupulous lawyers (is there another sort?) will soon happen!
You raise an interesting paradox: about us advancing education for our natives as a public good, while at the same time importing the unskilled because they are more useful to our economy.

Answer 8

30 million unskilled, third world immigrants are not good for our country; however, they are good for keeping American wages down, and good for big business and big agriculture. Let's get rid of the invading hordes of third worlders by enforcing our immigration laws.

Answer 9

You will be lucky if your question isn't deleted. I believe Yahoo Answers police support a different position on the illegal "immigrant" issue. Seems like only "anti-illegal" questions and answers are deleted. Even if they contain logical thinking and no obscene language or slurs of any kind.

Answer 10

New immigrants are just follow the USAers example.
The first unskilled workers that came to America were WHITE PEOPLE and NATIVE INDIANS taught them to work.