Does anyone else realize that getting rid of all immigrants will hurt our economy???

dÅ«'bÄ“-É™s

Yes, it will affect economy

Your name here, cheap.

No one wants to get rid of all immigrants, just theillegal ones. Why is that so hard for some people to understand? Using your logic, if I murder ten people, move to a new state and work nicely for 20 years I should get a free pass on past crimes.

MRS. MARTIAN

actually the amount of illegals is about the amount of the unemployed. And we need a drop in population. What dont you understand about we dont need them!!

dr_usual

You mean, all the houses that were bought with subprime loans and are repossessed daily? Or all the stores that are constantly fined because of illegal employee violations? (Irony: the government will inform a business owner that an employee's SSN was false, but won't allow the business owner to fire the liar.)

How about all the free health care, shelter, and food services that we won't be paying out to people who aren't paying into the tax base? Seems to me that would help the economy considerably...

David

Your an idiot give the new jobs to the homeless/job needing people. Illegals took jobs from africans in new orleans and all around the US, I cant even get a job at a buffet, but you look around the resturaunt and no one speaks english. The ******* manager could hardly speak english.

~Baby Bake Oven~

I believe there are plenty of US citizens looking for jobs and homes to fill those spots. I don't think it will be a problem at all. Why not start to fix it now? Does the word ILLEGAL mean anything to you?

Who Loves Ya Babe

Not so much.
Id rather struggle than to deal with these people. I can sooo live without them. They are pests to me.

amnesty sucks

LET THE HURT BEGIN! I want the hurt of all the ILLEGALS gone.

Ya know, the thought of paying a few cents more for vegetable is really going to hurt. I'd much rather have our health care destroyed, diseases brought in, school not be able to teach, have IDs & jobs stolen and, most importantly, contunu paying billions of dollars each year to pay for their support.

(I hope you get the sarcasum!)

king Ebanks of USA

we need illegal aliens to keep the economy going rant.....
What Part of 'Illegal Immigration' is Confusing you?

you don't mind people disrespecting our sovereignty, we like any other nation have the right to enforce our laws

a bush family member

Illegal aliens are not immigrants. No one is suggesting getting rid of immigrants.

How_Would_I_Know

I'm guessing you mean getting rid of criminal immigrants. And yes, it would damage our economy.. but nowhere near the damage they're doing by being here.

Lori K

You are wrong. Illegal aliens are a much bigger drain on our economy than any benefits they might bring. Why fix it now? Because it's only getting worse. We have NO bigger problem to worry about . This is potentially the biggest disaster this country has ever faced. We NEED to get rid of all illegal aliens and get our immigration policy back on a lawful course.

45 auto

It will affect the employers that started all this mess so when there all deported than replaced with legals>Our health system will get better>We the people have spoken we don't need your welfare cases< Jobs & ID * SS# fraud> enforcement of our laws>deportation>It is happening at a slow rate so the inpact will not be so hard to except>

regerugged

No one is suggesting that all immigrants leave. All illegal immigrants don't belong in the US. It is not a question of economics. It is a question of obeying US laws.
If all illegals left tomorrow, the economy will not be adversely affected. Eleven million illegals is less than 4% of the 300 million US population.
If your revenues and expenses changed by 4%, you would not face catastrophe in your own personal economy.

Commandant Marcos

Getting rid of the illegal ones won't

peanuthead

Please.....our economy was the greatest in the world with a whole lot less people. I'd rather pay the price for getting rid of them and work with that than dealing with the fall-out of what it means to keep them all.

Cartman

We assume 20 million illegals are here. Currently we have 301 million people here - 20 million is not going to have that much of an impact.we have bigger things to worry ,come on since we had 9-11 we should be concerned about document fraud and have control over who enters the country. Ones deeds do not justify how others can break a number of laws because they help our economy and it's no big deal.

Sherilynne B

No when they leave it will be only an improvement. They are not needed or wanted here and only use our services for free and rape our children. Deport NOW!

slew

It might help our economy. I get annoyed how people try to over simplify a complex subject of Economy. First, Housing is way too expensive. The Average home in L.A> is over half a million. We need property value to crash. As for Jobs, we are preparing for that. We are improving how we bring in legal immigrants. We are stream lining the H2A visa, which is unlimited. These Visas are for farm laborer. Losing some population would be good in LA, which has the highest number of illegal immigrant. Our streets are way to congested, rent is too high, and we are in a water shortage, as well as a power shortage. These things are costing our fair city money to deal with. Also you must realize, If we have a labor shortage, salaries would go up. That means per person, we pay more taxes.

B.Kevorkian

Certainly if you could snap your fingers and cause every immigrant in America to instantly disapear, doing so would be an immediate and heavy blow to the economy.

However, more realistic modes of enforcement against illegal immigrants (leaving legal immigrants in place) would not be so sudden, and, while there would be a period of economic adjustment, while dishonest employers raise thier wages and improve working conditions to hire legal employees - or close thier doors - it would not be all bad, or all good. Wages would rise, as would prices, erasing some of those wage gains, for instance.

Paula Revere

You are right - you should be concentrating on how to get back the tuition you spent on economics class. They contribute less than 3% to the GDP. Their costs far outweigh their contributions. Ironically enough, there are about the same number of unemployed Americans as there are foreign workers - did you notice how quickly the places being raided were able to hire workers.

joshbl74

Really the idea is not to suddenly make them all disappear. Thats not feasable nor a good idea. If you shut the borders effectively and allow "normal" attrition through deportation as it now exists then the illegal population will slowly decline. At the same time, we do need a ready supply of unskilled workers to do these crappy manual labor jobs. Shutting the border will reduce that supply and will force employers to increase wages, and subsequently increase the prices of those goods. To prevent the dreaded wage increase you must continue to have people who will work for very low wages. The goal is to modify the immigration policy to make LEGAL immigration easier than illegal immigration.
The US population is 300 Million. Unemployment is currently at 4.6% or 13.8 million. There are 12 million estimated illegals here now(4%). Magically making them disappear would create a worker shortage due to limits in workforce mobility, but that's just never been a serious concideration.
It's true that the enforcement of these immigration laws has not been very strict but they have continued to deport people who are caught for the entire history so it is not fair to say anyone "let" them break the law. There are a number of Safe Heaven areas where local governments have refused to enforce federal law but again that is not saying that the federal government "let" them stay.
Really this problem is huge. What more did you think we should deal with? Illegal immigrants send home 50 billion dollars a year. That is money earned here but not spent here. Its worse than the 200 billion trade deficit with china cause we don't even get any goods in return. While anyone paid by check (most illegals work for cash) will pay federal income tax, this money is not spent in our markets and does not generate local sales tax. The children of illegals go to school but the schools loose tax revenue and are streched thin. Immigrant students are usually not good english speakers and require more teacher time to get the same education. The tax revenue is vital. Illegals commonly share housing space due to the difficulties of being with out valid ID documents and therefore without bank accounts. The shared housing means that they will pay less property tax per capita. This affects school funding and community resources.
Go to a high school in a border area like San Diego and tell me what else we should be working on.

chefsky2001

This question has been asked before. Get rid of them and cut welfare and programs like that and guess what you have new employees.

Sweet Tea & Lemons

Getting rid of "ILLEGAL" immgrants will not hurt our economy. There would be a great change but the economy would adapt.

curtis s

So what you are saying is that the poor and middle class Citizens should just accept illegals because the rich would lose profits by not having enough slave labors to work for them--is that about right? That logic could have came right out of the Tyson Corps board room, because it surely did not originate amongst the working class in this country.

And we should keep them because the price of housing would drop to a reasonable level--from the absurd level of today. Sounds great, if you are a real estate speculator; but not so hot for the American Working Class.

Further we should keep them so that we do not have stores closed down? This might be a big deal to the land owners that will lose out on leases, but it might be a good news to the American Citizen that wants to have a bit more bargaining power against a potential landlord.

Moreover the costs of eliminating the illegals as a social force would be more than out weighed by the benefits in the form of savings. No more multilingual schools; no more welfare for illegals; no more cost of imprisoning them for illegal activity besides being here illegal....and on and on and on.

The fact is that if the de facto slave labor where to go by by the fat cats would be forced to pay first world wages for a honest days labor; supply and demand and all. And that is the reason that they will try to keep them, come hell or high water. They are a tool for the Rich to use to keep the poor in line and to attempt to force them into third world poorness.

This is a fact. And I for one, will NOT just shut up and let them hand my Country over to ignorant third worlders so that they can get more profits at the expense of my People.

Now is the time to worry about fixing this ClusterF##k as it is absolutely out of hand, Deport; Deport Now; and Deport Later. Deport, Deport, Deport!!

Rabid Frog

What "we" need to be worrying about is the stress on the middle class. Reports as late show more and more stress on the middle class and I hope you understand that without a middle class this nation WILL fall.

Instead of worrying about saving the employers a buck or two on labor maybe you should consider the middle class carrying the entire tax burden for all services that illegal immigrants use. If you only count the two services that we all agree on (health care and education) the figures are staggering.

RedWhite&Blue

There will be only a few empty houses considering they squeeze about 100 people in one house.

Anne

I hope you are talking about illegals because the legal immigrations are just fine with most Americans/
That's a risk most Americans are willing to risk. If we do not get a handle on the illegal immigration problem it will only get worse. In 1986 amnesty was granted to 3.1 million illegals, now 2007 we have between 12-20 million, I would say more like 20-50 million where will this all end.

Razor Jim

No that is just what the pro illegals like to say. Let the growers pay decent wages for a change like every other business that wants to compete. We don't need law breakers

forgivebutdonotforget911

How will it hurt it?

It is estimated that every illegal family costs the USA $2700 in services more than they pay for. So multiply that by the numbers of illegals and it comes out to around TEN BILLION DOLLARS a year of public services that they get that WE pay for.

If they are such a benefit, how come Mexico is not demanding they come home?

Blondie*

Uh excuse me, our border being wide open is something that needs to be addressed, period. I don't see every illegal immigrant in this country being deported, if they are here, they're here! Those people who are illegal I would wish they would work on getting some type of citizenship and pay taxes like the rest of us do, however I know our Government is broken in that area and we need to create some sort of program or system to make that happen so no families get seperated or lose their jobs and everything else, BUT I alsop dont want millions more coming over the border illegally compounding the problem more and more , not to mention now we have terrorisim to worry about and any terrorists could get through our border easily with anything they wanted,anyone, at anytime, and we need to think about that and be smarter than that. It's careless to not do something about it and I consider any person who still thinks the border should be open even when it concerns terrorists and so forth coming over, your not a true american!!

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