One of the big themes that's always toted around regarding the American economy is the "growing disparity between the rich and the poor" in American. The divide between those that are rich and those that are poor is getting wider... so some claim. But that being said (and assuming that its true) then wouldn't one of the main causes of that widening be that influx of poor cheap laborers. If the labor market is flooded with illegal immigrants that work for nothing, and keep unskilled labor wages low, then how can the poorest demographics ever make up the difference? Seems like eliminating the competition, allowing a "labor shortage" and wages to raise would be one solution to the problem. Another way to look at it is that America absorbs 1million+ of the poorest Mexicans every year, so even if as a society we were successfully advancing 1million Americans up from the poverty line per year then it still won't make any headway because 1million+ more impoverished people just walk across the border...
I understand what your saying Letum. Businesses would face the brunt of a profit loss, and exports would decrease... but their's got to be some sortof national economic benifit to a higher paid blue collar demographic... right?
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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
They have no loyalty to the country, have no wish to learn more than basic English, learn anything, and I doubt they even want to stay here except to collect a paycheck and milk the system. One of the companies my father owns is a daycare business, and I've been out there to collect the money quite a few times. These Mexicans go in there, decked out in better clothes than you, and they talk about how many more children they can get because each one is a bigger welfare paycheck. The men don't want to get married to not only avoid getting a smaller welfare paycheck themsleves, but also to make sure the woman also gets a large check. The men also work the construction jobs under the table at the same time. Its all a game of money to them and they've got it worked.
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errr... illegal immigrants getting welfare? iirce you have to be a citizen to get welfare from what I understand.