Illegal Immigration

[aafsc]

There is also the often-used argument that the cheaper labor of the illegals, the same labor that results in those cheaper goods and services, is also used to suppress wages, offsetting the benefit derived through cheaper goods and services.

The usual argument for increasing immigration - the need to fill jobs "Americans just don't want to do" - should be tempered by the realization that in most cases Americans DID do those jobs once, but found themselves unable to live on the wages those jobs provide.

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You are right NWA/AMT! Does anyone remeber the illegals that were arrested at the MRO facility recently?

 

[TWAnr]

Do you think that whatever savings there are from services performed by illegal immigrants are offset by citizens paying higher taxes?

[post="261984"][/post]​

From the April 18, 2005, issue of Time:

$7 billion - Estimated amount of Social Security taxes paid each year by illegal immigrants, even though they will not receive benefits

10% - Estimated percentage of last year's Social Security surplus made up by those illegal immigrants' tax contributions

$1.5 billion - Estimated amount illegal immigrants pay each year in taxes for Medicare, for which they are also ineligible

Numbers

Based upon these numbers, the answer is probably no.

 

[Seatacus]

From the April 18, 2005, issue of Time:
Based upon these numbers, the answer is probably no.

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I looked at the sources of those numbers and I am not so sure about their accuracy.