I think its a great thing. I live in Canada, and I think you guys are incredibly lucky to have such a large group of cheap, unskilled labout.
Example: My room is really dirty. Its a total mess. There are books, clothing, coints, and candy wrappers everywhere. My parents are yelling at me to clean it, but I'm to busy. I go to university full-time, and have a part-time job, and today I'm cramming for midterms. It would take me a good 4 hours to clean this room top to bottom, but I just don't have that time.
I would gladly pay some poor, underpriveledged illegal immigrant $20-$25 to clean it. Try telling that to a legitimate cleaning service here. They'd laugh at you and say they want 80 bucks for 4 hours of cleaning. I wish I lived in Arizona, or California, or Texas, some state where I could walkt to the welfare office line and offer 20 bucks to clean my room. You Americans should consider yourselves lucky for illegals.
I'm not trolling, I'm dead serios. I want my own illegal!
2007-10-28 11:46:52 · 18 answers · asked by Go Leafs Go 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
That $25 cleaning will cost you $70 billion annually in taxes. When they don't make a living wage, they leech off of the infrastructure.
Medical Care. Education. Addt'l crime too.
All things added and subtracted....it is a negative on the US.
2007-10-28 13:18:00 · answer #1 · answered by Dirty Martini 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The only thing is that while you save 60 bucks here and there (about cleaning your room or buying cheap veggies) is that at the same time these illegals cost a huge amount of money in schools, benefits, hospitals etc
And guess who's paying this? Not Mexico, but YOU AND ME through taxes (the invisble side of the iceberg), well into the billions and billions of dollars...
Plus many do crime, gangs, more millions into police, prison costs, deportation costs etc. And much more...
2007-10-28 19:56:39 · answer #2 · answered by ed s 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Illegal Immigration Is Not A Victimless Crime
Apologists for illegal immigration try to paint it as a victimless crime, but the fact is that illegal immigration causes substantial harm to American citizens and legal immigrants, particularly those in the most vulnerable sectors of our population — the poor, minorities, and children.
Illegal immigration causes an enormous drain on public funds. The seminal study of the costs of immigration by the National Academy of Sciences found that the taxes paid by immigrants do not begin to cover the cost of services received by them. The quality of education, health care and other services for Americans are undermined by the needs of endless numbers of poor, unskilled illegal entrants.
Additionally, job competition by waves of illegal immigrants desperate for any job unfairly depresses the wages and working conditions offered to American workers, hitting hardest at minority workers and those without high school degrees.
Immigration and the Economy
Current levels of immigration are not beneficial to our country’s economy, its fiscal well-being, or the health of our labor market. In fact, immigration is a drain on the economy; the net annual cost of immigration has been estimated at between $67 and $87 billion a year.1 The National Academy of Sciences found that the net fiscal drain on American taxpayers is between $166 and $226 a year per native household. Even studies claiming some modest overall gain for the economy from immigration ($1 to $10 billion a year) have found that it is outweighed by the fiscal cost ($15 to $20 billion a year) to native taxpayers.2 In short, the average native taxpayer is paying for immigration so that large companies can profit by employing immigrants in low-wage positions.
That immigration does not help the economy should come as no surprise, since, in a sense, we are importing poverty. One out of every five poor people is an immigrant.3 Furthermore, the earning power of these poor immigrants is deteriorating and is likely to remain low throughout their working lives, according to the RAND Insitute.
2007-10-28 20:01:03 · answer #3 · answered by edwinjoel22 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
one of the main reasons is that most Americans are, for the most part, descended from people who came here by giving up what they had in order to take a chance on a new country, new language, etc.
they came here playing by the rules and expect that others would do that also
(what we don't always realize is how badly those rules have changed)
the perception that there is an endless supply of cheap
labor keeps wages down, so people who work for aliving become resentful of paying the taxes for schools, etc
my Mom's generation (the WW II & Depression generation) especially sees this issue very black & white
2007-10-28 19:19:24 · answer #4 · answered by yyyyyy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I hate it for you. Seeing as how you don't live in this country you have no business being "for " illegal immigration. You don't know what kind of strain and drain this puts on our society. And will never understand it until you are a US citizen. We'll be sure to forward about 44 million to you. What is your address?
2007-10-28 20:56:53 · answer #5 · answered by happyjack 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We are not lucky and if Canada wants 20 million undocumented, illegal aliens; then send a memo to the countries they come from.
They are poor because of their nation; their nation should provide for them.
2007-10-28 19:42:59 · answer #6 · answered by Fox_America 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Because it is a bad thing. Come to Az. and live for just a few weeks and tell me then if you still feel the same as you run for a plane home.
2007-10-28 23:38:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Glad you don't live in those 3 states. Don't need another law breaker. Although maybe if you did, you would sing a different tune. Save your money, and hire someone legal, or try not to be so lazy and clean yourself. It's not that hard.
2007-10-28 18:58:31 · answer #8 · answered by Gretl 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
You think it's a good thing huh?? "Ignorance is bliss". How about we send them all your way and Canada's population will double. You will have more illegals than you can handle, guaranteed. Stay in school...you have a lot to learn.
2007-10-28 20:07:51 · answer #9 · answered by whiz 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You would happily pay someone to clean up for you, we all would. The problem is, they get sick just like we do. They go to Hospitals, cannot pay bills, cannot be tracked down.....so we are paying millions a year to treat them. Plus they steal our SS#....we try to file taxes.....find out we had 5 other jobs....have 20 kids....years of red tape trying to straighten it out. America needs to abolish citizenship for babies born on US soil unless to US citizens. If I was pregnant and had a baby in Cuba......would I allow it to be a Cuban? NO WAY. Nationality should revert to country of citizenship. Will gladly send them North to tax your system.....then we can talk
2007-10-28 19:01:18 · answer #10 · answered by yknothavefun2 4 · 8⤊ 0⤋