If USA deports all illegal aliens at once, What would happen to our economy?

Lone Marlin - Airborne

Loaded question. "...in one week..."

They'll go voluntarily if we respect the original intent of the 14th amendment. If their kids born here are not granted citizenship and they can get NO free medical assistance, education, housing, transportation, CHIPS, etc, ... they'll go voluntarily. All of them, regardless of ethnicity.

As for the economy?

Dr. ML King Jr identified what had kept the south economically, socially and educationally behind the north: cheap labor.

The north didn't have it. So their industries were forced to automate. By necessity, then, they provided more and more high tech jobs...jobs any laborer has the intelligence to master once s/he decides to learn.

So, in the short run, we may need to increase the openings in the Green Card Lottery by a factor of 50 or so (see wikipedia) to bring in plenty of law-respecting, education-minded, assimilation-ready new immigrants to fill the vacancies left by the exodus of the cheaters (and after citizens have filled all we can); then do what other developed nations have been doing: automate.

The economy would be fine. Beef might go up 20 or 30 percent. Lettuce and berries would likely rise no more than 5 to 10 percent since grocers usually mark those items up about 90%.

Our deficit spending would stablize. Schools and hospitals would return to normal. The roads and prisons would seem empty and even sewer-facilities would "breathe easier"... so to speak.

So what are we waiting for?

alberto's Parents

I could the see the economy improving. Wages would increase,benefits not offered before will be offered in new jobs. Employers are making a killing on the use of illegals that is not directed back unto us. It's all profit driven and this move would benefit Mexico in the long run, Mexico would see it's time to clean up the country in doing so they could have a country that would do everyone there good. If 12 million leave, that would leave behind about 288 million people, we can continue on without much hardship.

alangj91761

i would imagine chaos for awhile, then we would hire teens school drop outs, hire semi retired people, lets educate welfare deadbeats and demand they learn a trade or no more welfare offered, within 2-3 years we would prosper...

B.Kevorkian

That's kinda like asking, if all the air molecules were on the other side of the room when you tried to take a breath....

It's impossible to deport all 12+ million illegals simultaneously - even if they all cooperated - if only because transportation would be logistically impractical.

The only practical way to reduce the number of illegals is by removing the encintives that draw them here. Most notably, cracking down on illicit employers so there aren't jobs for them, though deporting any illegal that makes his presence known would also make sense.

Since we don't know exactly how many illegals there are, nor what they're doing, it's impossible to say exactly what would be the economic consequences of thier leaving. Obviously, since many of them work, it would mean fewer workers, which would tend to drive up wages a little. Since illegals are also known to remit some of thier earnings to thier homelands, it would not have as great a corresponding impact on consumer spending (in America).

unitedstatesofsocialistrepublic

remember mayday when they stopped working zero impact as a result

45 auto

They didn't come here all at once so they won't be leaving or deported all at once . Our economy will flourish with all the social services, fraud of all kinds defeated. We will have a surplus. An jobs will be done by legals or prisoners like AZ.

James B

It would be back to where it was before they came over here, "just fine" I would hope your not saying the country can't survive without them.....

DAR

There would be dislocation and we'd resize to our legal, individually wealthier, population.

The pie would be smaller but individual people would have larger slices.

toe_crap

It won't be possible to deport them in one week.The way to deport them is one at a time...the same as they got here...and as far as "anti-American sentiment"...EVERY country in the world has immigration laws...and EVERY country in the world enforces them.

America has a right....and a duty to its citizens...to enforce our immigration laws and our borders.

Unless we remove the reasons they come here, deportation alone will not solve the problem.

Prosecute employers to the fullest extent of the law.

Do not rent or sell housing to illegal aliens.

Do not allow monetary assistance for any reason from any government agency to illegal aliens...federal, state, city...etc.

Coach

Lets see.....in time, I would see a reduction in my auto insurance (more $ for me), my healthcare costs would decrease (more $ for me), my property taxes would decrease (more $ for me), I wouldnt have to learn spanish to drive around my own city. I would be able to understand the person at the drive thru and my order would probably be right.

Placido

USA teens and young adults will get their high school and college jobs back.

Employers may be more grateful and respectful towards teens and young adults.

"Illegal aliens" consist of 5% population.. I'm sure we lose nearly 5% and grow 6% yearly. Even if those percentages are off.. their are still more people being born in the US than people dying. Fact.

MRS. MARTIAN

if that were to happen then employers would have no choice but to raise wages so that americans can actually make a living off of. its not that americans wont do those jobs it is that we wont do those jobs for that little pay and the employers take advantage of illegals in that way. basically higher wages would enable just about any american to that job. also we would gain money because billions are sent out of the country every year and without illegals that money would not be sent out.

crunkful

my god the economy would collapse, nobody wants those jobs and the small things wouldnt get done everything would come to a stand still and worse of all, ceo's would have to give money out of their own pocket!!! NOOOO!!!! truly it would be very bad, know it or not we do depend alot on illegal workers to get houses built all the way up to working in the most dangerous parts of chemical plants for 3 dollars an hour, dont deport them we need them

Anne

First we are never going to have mass deportations, so that's just a way to muddy the waters. If large numbers of illegals decided to self deport, filling the gap would not be a problem, people all over the world would pay to come to the country, so after a brief time of disarray, we could process those we deemed necessary for the jobs that we need. It would be a novel idea for us to made the decision based on what is good for this ourselves instead of the illegals making that decision for us

Jay

Im not sure , But I do think that wed be a richer country . We wouldnt be paying for all that health care that the illegals use and dont pay for , or the food stamps and welfare checks that I dont know how there getting . And I know you said no rascism , but this only sounds rascist ,its not ! A lot of illegals are poor so they commit crimes , in turn we pay 70, 000 ish per person a year in prison or jail . So I honestly think well have a lot more money !

charmingasheck

You posed a very interesting question with quite an obvious answer. I agree that illegal aliens are allowed mainly for the purpose of seizing job opportunities which most lifelong U.S. residents refuse to take merely because the income is not enough to sustain proper care of self and/or a family. I fully believe the immigrants enter our country with prior knowledge of this fact and while the nation would indeed suffer at the loss of so many "workers"; simultaneously, is it fair for them to be alloted more leniency in terms of their legalization for this very reason? When entering the countries of these very citizens, would U.S. born individuals be extended the same hospitality, courtesies, rights and moreover, opportunities if we were in similar predicaments on "their" soil? You can respond to my question at: justdivinecreations@yahoo.com
I do pray no one found it offensive...

Spazzâ„¢[FTP]

Lol
I find it funny that some ppl even think that mass-deportation is possible

the economy would suffer greatly with lack of cheap labor

The same thing that happened when they all "took the day off from work" and marched in the streets and demanded amnesty

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

Ryan

Well it depends on the region of the country, but there would be lots of problems all across the nation.

We have near full employment in this nation plus 12 million illegal aliens in the labor force. Now tell me how with near full employment are we going to fill all these jobs? There is no way to fill these jobs unless the government is willing to undertake relocations of unemployed individuals to areas with jobs.

unrattled_snake

American children (real citizens) would have renewed hope for meaningful employment and their future if all the nonsense H1B, H2B and Visas from A-Z were eliminated.

Adelaide

They are criminals and are breaking the law.
That is all we should be concerned about.

What if one day America decided to end our legal system and no longer prosecute criminals and free all those who are currently incarcerated?

What if we decided it would help our economy if we allowed criminals to work instead of being locked up where they belong?

I think in order to keep our laws intact they need to apply to everyone and no group of people should be allowed to break them no matter what the justification for doing so may be.

That is the only way we can maintain law and order and keep society free and safe.
If we chose to make an exception for certain people then we should be required to make exceptions for everyone regardless of what they have done.

judy "ORIGINAL"

one word, ECONOMY WILL GO DOWN.

Sweet Tea & Lemons

America would at last be a better place!

whiz

I can't believe people on here trying to suggest that we actually "need" illegal alien criminals or our economy will go down the toilet.

Who honestly believes we would have a shortage of labor?? There are billions of people around the world that would immigrate LEGALLY I might stress, if only given the chance. If we need more workers that can't be filled from within our borders, we merely increase our LEGAL immigration quota. Easy. Problem solved.

The people on here stressing ths "labor shortage" fallacy obviously have an agenda for illegal aliens. Period.

Quasi Moto

A couple of Mexican restaurants would close around here, that's about it.

Stock prices would go up 10% because of the follow on party.

boss bee - YANKEES FOREVER!!!!

That is physically impossible. and they're not going to even try it. But just for kicks I'd like to see the responses also.

Golden

this whole issue is crap. the facts are all muddled up by the nationalistic furor raised by extreme right wing social defects. the "illegals" are a part of our system.

you point out yourself that there are white illegals, we have a huge community of east europeans in this county, no telling how many of them are legal and how many illegal. and these folks by and large are not working the fields as we have latinos still doing that. indeed the next town south is half or more latinos with questionable documentation. that town is enjoying an incredible boom in their growth and economy; it would throw them back to the 60s or at most the 70s in terms of economy. as for the east europeans, our county would be rich with out them as half of that comminity are on welfare. but how many people factor in the huge population of asians in california? these folks are making shirts and pants for Kmart and others.

in europe it's easy to define french people, german people, danes, norse and swiss, etc. but america is all these cultures and more; we are a nation of immigrants, and illegal immigration is nothing new; been going on as long as we've had immigration laws. will they get kicked out too?

but the real issue is not any of the others; it boils down to the latinos, it's racial and nothing but. and your government is not ready to act on such an issue. or rather they are acting on the issue and most people don't understand. we will soon be the north america union. canada, usa, and mexico combined. any well informed legislator knows this.

iwannarevolt

It'd go down the toilet.

r1b1c*

The economy would hurt but survive, cost of living would increase as a consequence starting what could end in an inflationary spiral.

On a side note if we were to expel 12 million people the anti-US sentiment in the world would skyrocket any politician anywhere that did not have an anti-US stance would get unelected and we would have to face a world were we are the enemy.

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