What is the positive and negative impact that illegal immigrants have on the U.S.?

Well Now What

The Positive
.
Lets business owners pay them below the min wage
For a full days work with no over time pay when they work double shifts
.
The Negative
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Puts a lot of people looking for a job in that line of looking for a longer time
.

blueskies

Positves- none

Negatives- freeload.

Falafel & Loofah Aficionado

Positive: a cheap work force for the lowest paying jobs. Many of these jobs are things that Americans don't generally want to do for the market wage.

Negative: a strain on public goods and services. They drive the wage of the lowest paying jobs down (i.e., a US Citizen painter might want $15/hr, but an immigrant will work for $8/hr).

nirvanafanatic619

No positives. Why should they come to America illegally when all they want is free stuff?

Negatives: higher taxes to support them, politicians just getting votes by promising them homes here, more illegal things b/c they did something illegal to get here, not being able to locate any of them.

cincinnatus

Positive:
Do jobs that Americans will not do, IE farm workers
Do jobs for cheap = lower prices for goods and services
Increased birth rate means that this Judeo Christian western country has a chance of survival.

Negative:
Lower wages for all
Large families with both parents working means more juvenile deliquency
Large ghettoes of non-english speaking people
Increased cost for taxpayers for medical care and education not paid back with increasing tax revenue

Baghdad Pete !

Positives = Got Obama Elected, great at scaling fences and dodging search lights, work at Taco Bell...

Negatives = Where do I start.... Driving up Health Care cost for all those anchor babies, welfare cost, not wanting to speak English and for wanting to push their culture on the rest of us, crime, too much crying and complaining, gangs (MS 13), drugs. So yeah tax payers support these illegals through programs.

GreasyTony

NEGATIVES:
They raised the work ethics bar really high, so that angers low skilled U.S. workers because now they have to work harder to compete with them.

POSITIVES:

1) They are consumers like you and I. They buy houses, cars, food, cloths, electronics and the list goes on. Hispanic Illegals are part of the Hispanic Purchasing Power that's expected to reach $1TRILLION by 2011.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/01/hispanics.economy/index.html?eref=ib_topstories
Hispanic purchasing power is expected to reach more than $1 trillion by 2011

2) They pay BILLIONS in taxes every year. Those taxes paid and not collected help many things like social security, medicare and even road maintenance.

http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2008/04/10/20080410biz-TaxingImmigrants-10.html
Illegal immigrants pay taxes, too

3) Illegal immigrants do the work many Americans refuse to do, and they fill the gaps in the labor workforce. Getting rid of them now would mean millions in lost wages and more Americans without jobs.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/steffy/5793519.html
They may be illegal but we still need them

Even if every unemployed Texan had a job, we still wouldn't have enough people to meet the labor demand, even if we sent all the illegal immigrants home.

4) They live side by side with us to give us a better understanding of different cultures without having to leave the US.

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