Well let’s see...Food prices will have to go up, and landscaping, hotel/motel housekeeping, construction labor, etc.
The unemployment numbers will have a sudden upward jump, as will expenditures for unemployment benefits, food stamps, etc.
So to sum up: Your cost of living will go up, Your competition for jobs will go up. Your national debt and probably your taxes will go up.
Next question: Cui bono? Who stands to gain from legalizing the illegals?
One of the reasons why the political class love the illegals is because those who have phony Social Security numbers are paying into a system and will not be able to collect. They are helping to keep the system afloat.
Once the illegals become legal, they will be eligible to draw... Even those who never paid in!
Well let’s see...Food prices will have to go up, and landscaping, hotel/motel housekeeping, construction labor, etc.
So... isn't this an argument for also not deporting illegals? Help me out here; am I supposed to be all in favor of enforcing immigration laws except in cases where it would raise the price of produce? Is this what "sticking by our principles" means?
Yes, I'm being snarky here, but this bugs me. Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but I've seen too many people turn a blind eye to illegal workers when the issue becomes the price of products. If we "solve" illegal immigration (however we do it), then it's going to cost more to do the jobs they were doing illegally. That's going to hit us in the pocketbooks. We have to be OK with that.