It's one of the mysteries and beautious things about a free market economy.
Overall, Illegals are a net negative and even tho they are not taking away the highestpaying jobs imo,, they still do siphon off a good sized chunk nonetheless, but the overall scale of the economy is such that it can still grow regardless how many factors would appear to be slowing it down or bleeding it.
It speaks to the economic strengths that have gotten this country this far. How much longer this will remain to be the case is the unknown, however.
Imagine what it would be doing growth-wise if it hadn't sacrificed so much for other regions of the world as part of the "free trade" agreements of the last 20 years?
That should stimulate some interesting thought and comment.
.. or not.
Hence the reason the Fed is doing away with the tracking of M3 growth. They don't want you to know that our Federal deficit is doing far more to stimulate growth overseas than here. Law #1 of tyrannical rule... eliminate transparency.
I would like to see more analysis. I wonder if illegals are part of economic activity that otherwise would not happen. I am dubious when I hear the assertion that they pay taxes. They may pay some sales taxes, but that is it. They avoid even that, here, by trading at flea markets. I suspect that there are unemployed Americans in different places than the illegals. If we shut them down, some business would stop, ie MW meat packing.