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Mexican influx may be good for U.S.
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If, in fact, we are too lazy to mow our own yards, bus tables at restaurants, roof our own houses, slaughter our own poultry, etc then I say we deserve to live with unkept yards, dirty tables, leaky roofs etc etc.
In fact, however, if there were not an abundance of (often off-the-book) illegal labor eager to take those jobs I am sure they would somehow be filled.
America has a too high high school drop out rate, exactly what jobs do those people take? Surely they aren't all on welfare and if they are it's high time they got a job.
it is a chicken-egg question, do illegals come to fill empty jobs or are jobs empty because illegal labor drives the pay rate down too far?
the latter.
Employers found they could hire illegals for a lot less (and provide no benefits leaving social welfare services to pick up the cost) and make more profit. the system feeds on itself as word gets back home and we find ourselves where we are. (TO BE CONTINUED)
CONTINUED
We didn't bring them here and we won't have to take them home.
Once we start prosecuting employers of illegal aliens the jobs that attracted them will dry up and they will go home the same way they got here.
It would be heartbreaking to round up poor, hardworking illegals and forcibly deport them, they truely are the victims in the entire mess.
But we don't/won't have to.
Lock up a few suit wearing CEOs and Human Resource executives, lock up a few socialites who hire illegal domestic help and word will get out quickly to those who hire illegals. Once they start obeying the law the problem will take care of itself.
Go after the employers and politicians and the problems start to go away.
Illegals self-deport and business raises wages.
Poor uneducated Americans start to fill the role they have always filled, taking the lower paid jobs and working their way up. It really is a simple concept.
The chief was made aware he was illegal and the chief's comment was. I don't care he's not a Mexican.
If he is a U.S. citizen every one of us ought to be ashamed. Where is his loyalty? He's nothing more than a pimp for the corrupt Mexican government that shoves it's problems onto the the American people and uses it's poor to invade our sovereign nation, destroying our borders language and culture along the way!
What distresses me most is that my experience tells me that most of the venomous remarks are coming from my fellow Mormons. We Mormons should be counted among those who show love and compassion to those who want to make a better life for themselves and their families.
1.Any financial stress that immigration results to our society is caused by socialism, not by the immigrants. Don�t leave a saucer of milk out and get upset if a stray cat shows up.
2.I welcome those who come want to come here to work hard and improve their lives. I don�t want to see freeloaders come here for a handout. I don�t want to see �citizens� get a handout either. Take away the incentive and the freeloaders will go.
3.Don�t get too caught up in the phrase �ILLEGAL� and �THE LAW.� It was ILLEGAL to live free as a Jew in Nazi Germany. It was against THE LAW to hide a Jew in your attic.
4.The English pilgrims diluted the Native American culture. The Irish diluted the English American culture. My ancestors, the Scandinavian immigrants, diluted the culture of the predominately British immigrant society here in late 1800s Deseret.
5.Making immigration illegal only keeps a few of the upright people out and almost none of the rest. In trying to �crack down� on immigration you will turn this, my beloved country, into an ugly, ugly police state.
Immigration generates extra income for the U.S. economy, even as it pushes down wages for some workers. By increasing the supply of labor, immigration raises the productivity of resources that are complementary to labor. More workers allow U.S. capital, land, and natural resources to be exploited more efficiently. Increasing the supply of labor to perishable fruits and vegetables, each acre of land under cultivation generates more output. Similarly, an expansion in the number of manufacturing workers allows the existing industrial base to produce more goods. This yields extra income for U.S. businesses. In the United States it appeared equal to about 0.2 percent of GDP in 2004.
U.S. cities with larger inflows of low-skilled immigrants experienced larger reductions in prices for housekeeping, gardening, child care, dry cleaning, and other labor-intensive activities, locally traded services thus raising the disposable income of American families.
Immigrants pay income, payroll, sales, property, and other taxes, with lower-skilled immigrants making smaller contributions�
For the nation as a whole, the NRC estimated that in 1996 immigration imposed a short-run fiscal burden of 0.2 percent of U.S. GDP. In that year, the immigration surplus was about 0.1 percent of GDP. Given the uncertainties involved in making this calculation, the resulting estimate would be statistically indistinguishable from zero�
No gain no loss.
George W. Bush�s budget proposal for 2008 calls for spending $13 billion to strengthen border security and immigration enforcement including $1 billion to construct fences and undertake other security measures on the border with Mexico.(or 0.10 percent of GDP).
How much money would be required to reduce illegal immigration to zero? Even far short of sealing the borders, the funds spent on extra enforcement would vastly exceed the income gained from eliminating the net fiscal transfer to households headed by illegal immigrants"
Do I mind someone trying to make a better life for themselves....no
However, I do mind seeing endless numbers of people entering our country illegally and being told I am "not open minded or bigoted" because I think it is wrong. I am also sick of seeing the Mexican flag hanging of every business a Mexican owns. It is one thing to be proud of your heritage but not to embrace the symbols of our great nation shows that many illegal aliens look at America thru blinders �only seeing money and not loyalty to anything else.
I am tried of seeing the illegal aliens not embracing the USA...if you want evidence of this watch a home soccer match between the USA vs. Mexico or any other country south of our borders. You�d swear you were watching the game from a foreign country.
My kids are getting sick of seeing fellow students whose parents are illegals not standing during the playing of the our National Anthem or standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.
Illegal immigration is going to Balkanize the USA.
The law as written now states that immigration from one country cannot exceed 7% of the total amount of immigrants each year. Mexico is trying to circumvent our laws and drain our resources by getting more of their people accepted. Immigrants sending money back to Mexico hurts our economy in the long run. We need to assure the bulk of immigrants in the future re-invest in our country, and are from a diverse selection of countries. Not just one.
Unless the stream of these people can be turned away from our country, they will soon outnumber us so that we will not be able to save our language or our government. However, I am not in favor of keeping them out entirely, All that seems necessary is to distribute them more evenly among us and set up more schools that teach English. In this way, we will preserve the true heritage of our country."
Ben Fanklin 1751
It seems the last person on the submarine always wants to close the hatch.
A friend of mine came to this country illegally as a 5 year old boy, and now is a principal of a highschool in Southern California. Another received his PhD and is a Professor at UCLA.
The thugs should be dealt with, but we should not paint with such broad strokes.
I was brought up in a racist environment. But as I got older and saw for myself that it's wrong!!
I am white but find it disgusting that even today
not all are equal, because of the so called master race keeps others down and are not willing to let them advance.
In the town I grew up in Mexican people were not treated well and the majority of them felt safer to stay on the other side of the tracks, whether they had wealth or not. If they had wealth, they were accused of stealing it. That's the main reason I will never go back.
Diversity Is great. Individuality is the greatest.
Get to know them one on one.
Some here think we can't learn from immigrants. They are sadly mistaken. Open your eyes and show what Jesus tried to teach us...compassion and charity.
Are you daft? How do you think this nation functioned before the surge in illegals? How do you think it functions in many areas of the US that are still predominantly white? It isn't that US workers don't/can't/won't work, it is that the wages for traditional labor jobs have been depressed by the influx of desperate people willing to do it for almost nothing (which is twice as much as they could earn in the cess pools many of them came from); US workers can't support a traditional nuclear family on 'illegal' wages in many instances. I have white, US friends from Oregon that worked the strawberry fields in summers between classes, known US citizens (including myself) that grew up dragging concrete all day and throwing hay all summer long, etc. US citizens WILL work at anything, for a fair and decent wage. If what you say is true, these banana republics should be the envy of the world. They are not.
Otherwise, if you are just here to be thugs, then please grab all of your thug friends, your Mexican flags, and get the hell out of our country.
Go home, build your own country up, don't come here and tear ours down to your level.
Diversity comes from the root Div(ide)and does it ever divide a people.
Already has.
I am glad I am only living in Utah for 1 year and then I am returning to my homestate of Texas.
I have never seen and experienced so much HATE and RACISM only in Utah among the Mormons. I am black, and there is no place for me in this land of White dominated Mormon folks.
the homosexuals are taking over our society while we bicker about illegals!
to the ramparts!!!
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