Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

8 Million People Are Working Illegally in the U.S. Here’s Why That’s Unlikely to Change.
New York Times ^ | Dec. 11, 2018 | MIRIAM JORDAN

Posted on 12/11/2018 7:32:59 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

They make beds in inns across the country. They pick oranges in Florida, strawberries in California and vegetables in Ohio. And they have built new subdivisions in Phoenix, Atlanta and Charlotte.

For years, policymakers have talked about shutting off the influx of undocumented workers. But the economy has grown to rely on them.

Ending illegal immigration, say many of those who have studied the issue, could mean that American workers would lose their jobs, companies would close and the economy would contract.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: aliens; democraticvoters; electionfraud; ilegals; illegalimmigrants; immigration; treason; voterfraud
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 121-135 next last
Out of the mouth of a liberal. Last week, a lib said to me his suggestion for the caravan is bring them to the US and to "put them in the states with small populations in the middle of the country and out west; no people live there." But not his lily white east coast states. No lie.
1 posted on 12/11/2018 7:32:59 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

If they are truly needed to do these jobs, they should be given work permits so they could work legally.


2 posted on 12/11/2018 7:36:58 PM PST by DLfromthedesert
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

Those 8 million WORKING picking oranges and strawberries, and washing dishes in diners and mowing your lawn are not the real problem.

It is those other 22 million illegals who are feeding at the trough of welfare, many committing serious crimes and voting illegally are the real problem.


3 posted on 12/11/2018 7:38:18 PM PST by entropy12 (One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

It is better to have an inevitable recession than have the non inevitable but more destructive elimination of the rule of law.


4 posted on 12/11/2018 7:39:12 PM PST by posterchild (anti-science: thinking a fetus is distinct from a tumor and sex is determined by chromosomes)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: entropy12

So said Rome. When enough foreigners moved into Rome to do the work they took over.


5 posted on 12/11/2018 7:39:57 PM PST by oldasrocks
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: DLfromthedesert

I’d rather do my work on my own, including growing and picking my own crops, to having diseases and lawlessness surround me (and paying higher taxes for the privilege of having my country invaded).


6 posted on 12/11/2018 7:41:28 PM PST by taxpayerfatigue (Taxpayer Fatigue)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

There should be work permits.

Win win.

You CANNOT deport every single illegal immigrant in this country. It’s just not possible.

It’s like meiosis and genetics. You can’t understand genetics without first understanding meiosis.

You cannot deport every single illegal immigrant. Doesn’t work that way. Just doesn’t.


7 posted on 12/11/2018 7:43:19 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GuavaCheesePuff

You CANNOT deport every single illegal immigrant in this country. It’s just not possible.

take away their income and they will self deport..


8 posted on 12/11/2018 7:45:45 PM PST by rolling_stone (Hang em slowly don't boil the rope make it a little short...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

Nothing matters, EXCEPT THEY ARE HERE ILLEGALLY!

ROUNDEM UP! DEPORTEM!

SENDEM BACK TO THE SHITHOLE COUNTRIES THEY CAME FROM!


9 posted on 12/11/2018 7:47:24 PM PST by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

If 8 million can work under the table and not pay as much in taxes.... WHY THE F&^*&^!!! do I pay the IRS every Year!!!


10 posted on 12/11/2018 7:47:51 PM PST by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement
Liberals are changing tactics again.

First they called people who wanted to stop illegal immigration 'racists' and 'haters.

When that didn't work they pleaded for pity. 'Won't someone please think of the women and children'.

Now that has failed so the new tactic is 'come on guys. Let's just admit these people are here and let them stay.'

11 posted on 12/11/2018 7:48:34 PM PST by yesthatjallen
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Taxman

I was in grocery store tonight. If, and I emphasize if, 5% of the people spoke English, that may be a high number.


12 posted on 12/11/2018 7:49:54 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: GuavaCheesePuff
You cannot deport every single illegal immigrant. Doesn’t work that way. Just doesn’t.

What do you know about Dwight David Eisenhower, or Operation Wetback?

What do you know about a country that can put men on the moon?

13 posted on 12/11/2018 7:50:23 PM PST by 4Runner
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: GuavaCheesePuff

In a word...automation.

Low skilled and semi skilled workers are gonna face a rude awakening, including illegal workers.

Robots don’t need $15 per hour, won’t spit in your food or take welfare to make up the difference.

They’re just slaves to be used on vote plantations.


14 posted on 12/11/2018 7:50:35 PM PST by ak267
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Taxman

We need an airbnb for employment. Provide 6 month visas, shelter, + 60 hours of work if these young folk are willing. It could be an audition for citizenship just like those few that serve in the military.


15 posted on 12/11/2018 7:51:27 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: GuavaCheesePuff

That’s an odd analogy.


16 posted on 12/11/2018 7:51:40 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: rolling_stone

[ You CANNOT deport every single illegal immigrant in this country. It’s just not possible.

take away their income and they will self deport.. ]

Trump should use the IRS and the “Fight for 15” argument to fix this problem.

Hire an illegal, the IRS starts fining you the missing tax revue from a 15 buck an hour job’s worth of tax revenue, per illegal worker at 40 hour work week per 52 weeks of the year even if you hired the illegal on the last week of December.

All tax money collected from this gets 10% taken off to pay for the wall.

This sh!t would fix itself quickly.

Want to go out of business, hire an illegal!


17 posted on 12/11/2018 7:51:49 PM PST by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: GraceG

Oh and make this program the IRS’s TOP PRIORITY, Not another American citizen gets an audit until all businesses that hire illegals have been fined and all back taxes collected! PERIOD!


18 posted on 12/11/2018 7:52:45 PM PST by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

so returning 10 million criminals back to their own countries
will cause layoffs of Americans?

creepers! these commie-leftists are NUTS!
irrational

any job that they’re doing here now, can and will be done by a legal American citizen (and despite PDJT’s significant economic improvements, there are still many Americans who’d like to get back to work after the Obammy (deliberate) depression years


19 posted on 12/11/2018 7:53:04 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE) Is)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GraceG

A 6 month work visa could stipulate that the holder leaves the country during the Christmas holidays. Go home, see their families while our families get by without them.


20 posted on 12/11/2018 7:54:57 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 121-135 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson