The cost of the services is offset by taxes collected on wages that are never refunded. If they are illegals, they also lose every bit of FICA.
Encouraging illegal behavior? Nope...but no need to treat hard working family people as criminals because they come here to better themselves.
You are right about the corruption in Mexico, that is the root of many of their problems...but everything you have suggested does nothing to address that problem.
As long as Mexicans can make ten times the money in the US as they can at home, we will have this problem. Fix that problem, and you will cure the illegal immigration problem. That is why a guest worker program is integral to any solution.
Untrue. I'll have to find it, but there is publication that reviewed that claim and found it to be false. llegals do not pay in taxes what they use in services-to the tune of about $2000 extra per year per native household.
The US is not responsible for fixing Mexico. Mexicans are.
I won't even get started on illegal alien crime, but I can tell you in my area, it is the major contributor to the crime stats.
And there IS a need to treat "hard working families" this way. Each time you ignore their behavior, you encourage and increase the problem for the native population. Who gave you the right to ignore the needs of your fellow citizens in favor of subsidizing citizens of another country? If you wish to invest your private funds in such as venture, feel free, but you most certainly DON'T have the right to impose that on the rest of us.
Not even close! That is the Tamar Jacoby deception where she tries to talk about the contributions without tallying the costs. Read this: The High Cost of Cheap Labor
You seem remarkably uninformed about illegal immigration. Perhaps you should sit back and listen for a while and learn something.
Each illegal costs the taxpayers $89,000 net. But those that hire illegals do not care about that, because they make the profit and the sucker taxpayer pays it.
As long as Mexicans can make ten times the money in the US as they can at home, we will have this problem. Fix that problem, and you will cure the illegal immigration problem. That is why a guest worker program is integral to any solution.
A Guest Worker Program is integral only to businesses making greater profits on cheaper labor. The cheap labor lobby could give a rats behind about the plight of poverty in Mexico, so long as they get workers for cheap.
Scratch any Republican who supports the President's proposals and you'll find someone profiting from cheap labor.
>The cost of the services is offset by taxes collected on wages that are never refunded.
You seem to forget that these people are illegal, hence they're not paying any taxes. The vast majority of them work off the books.
>If they are illegals, they also lose every bit of FICA.
Yes, they're illegal and criminal. The only FICA being lost is the American citizen's whose jobs have been taken away from them. But it's not just about jobs, it's about their presence on American soil that is not wanted.
they're on the same footing as future generations of US citizens, as far as that goes.
In how many centuries do you think Mexico will have achieved salary parity with the United States? Then you'll have fixed the problem with respect to Mexico only. The 3rd world is a huge place and the answer is not to rehabilitate their countries by accepting the dregs of each of their societies. Yours is just an utterly absurd fix to the problem.