When it is costing us $70 BILLION a year, depressing wages, and taking jobs away. Isn't this eroding the middle class? Driving up the deficit a lot? Taking jobs away?
2007-11-19 17:31:01 · 6 answers · asked by asdf 1 in Social Science ➔ Economics
Hello, I am concerned that the allowance of illegal immigrants is a step to embody this group of individuals to add and maintain a FUTURE work force. In doing so, a vein for taxation is maintained in order to support the older and retiring work force in this country.
The US suffers with a deminishing child birth rate, which may not be able to produce sufficient tax funds for the future.
Adding millions of immigrants, both legal and illegal, I believe is a partial band-aid to this future problem.
2007-11-19 19:27:50 · answer #1 · answered by Lance B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it is good but it is not as bad as it is often portrayed. Illegal immigrants live here, and consume as well as produce, so many of the jobs they are "taking" would not exist if they were not here. However, they lower wages for unskilled America workers and provide cheap labor for marginal businesses as well as household help for the upper middle class so increase the inequality of incomes and life style of Americans. I do not believe there are jobs American won't do if they pay enough. I find it oddly inconsistent that some people believe that markets work when they enhance the income of the rich, but will fail in the unskilled labor market
2007-11-20 02:46:59 · answer #2 · answered by meg 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Like Meg says they are consumers as well as producers. They don't take away "middle class" jobs and in fact help rather than hurt the middle class, inasmuch as their labor helps to contain costs and they are available to be maids and nannies and pool boys and stuff for the middle class (the middle class didn't used to be able to afford maids and nannies).
They support the current social security system by paying into it (with fake SSNs), even though they'll never be able to receive the benefits. (Heh, we do this to people on legal work visas too).
If you CAN lose your job to a semi-literate non-English speaking illegal alien, the shame on you for spending your school years smoking behind the gym and skipping class. Everyone TOLD you you needed to go to college, didn't they?
2007-11-20 08:54:03 · answer #3 · answered by KevinStud99 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's not eroding middle class - all the jobs they do are low-skilled manual labor. Not sure who or how came up with $70B figure, and I do not see the connection to deficit since these jobs will not pay much tax.
I agree that job loss is bad, but you cannot instantly remove all the immigrants - companies need time to find replacements, and those replacements need to be convinced to get off welfare.
2007-11-20 01:35:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Whatever happened to "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door"? You're right though- I'm sure clamping down on immigration will really strengthen the economy...I'm sure there aren't other things driving the deficit up.
2007-11-20 02:07:16 · answer #5 · answered by mark h 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. They provide lab our force for the farms and factories. otherwise many work places may shut down due to lack of man power.
2. Their pays are less than the local people.
2007-11-20 01:38:29 · answer #6 · answered by azurewaters1 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋