Well, the articles mention it but its' worth repeating; illegal immigrants have another value that explains this insistence on amnesty quite easily.....votes.
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Originally Posted by August
Besides, if and when these illegal aliens actually do get their citizenship, their employers will no longer be able to pay them sub minimum wages, forcing those companies to fire all those new citizens and seek other illegal aliens.
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This has actually happened before, after a fashion. When the First Federal minimum wage law went into effect in 83' a lot of people lost their jobs, mostly minorities, because their employers sought out new employees that they were willing to pay more. Other jobs were consolidated to make them worth the new wage. Estimates vary depending on who you talk to but they range between 2 and 8 million jobs.
With the current rate of unemployment, plus any additional costs on employers incurred by some of the universal healthcare options being discussed, amnesty reeks of bad policymaking that will hurt the people it is supposed to help, not to mention the budget strain.
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Originally Posted by Bewolf
Kickig all these ppl out is hardly an option.
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Kicking them out might be unfeasible and costly, but limiting the harm they do by staying and providing less incentive to come here could be cheap and efficient. Simply stop providing public services to non-citizens and those without visas. Require proof of parental citizenship for babies born on American soil before they can become citizens.
The U.S. has no obligation to do anything for these people at all, so there are all kinds of other little incentives they have that we could take away.
Personally, I like illegal immigrants. They fill a big gap in the labor market, they do jobs no one else wants to do, they ease fiscal strain on businesses, and technically, there is no need for them to directly cost the treasury one red cent. Its' like home-delivery outsourcing, but it doesn't impact good jobs(much)! And it is such a simple fix! No citizenship, no visa, no taxes, no services!
I could go on and on.........