Experts: Illegal Immigrants Help Economy

Yahoo & AP ^ | April 4, 2006 | Jeannine Aversa

[Donald Meaker]

If low wages help the economy, then Africa and Mexico would be world beaters.

[MHGinTN]

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[pterional]

I totally agree. What is going to happen when all these illegal get old????? They have never paid into Social Security. These Fruit pickers develop back pain and degenerative spine disease. They don't have health care insurance. Who is going to pay for their 50,000 dollar spine surgery???

Import the fruit deport the illegal.

[Reagan Man]

The underground economy. Cheap wages and no benefits.

Hire an American, send the illegals packing.

[CowboyJay]

"Experts: Illegal Immigrants Help Economy"

LOL! If this were really true, EVERY country would be clamouring to have them back, wouldn't they?

How stupid do these people think we are?

Support HR 4437, and oppose any type of 'guest worker' amnesty.

[Mike Darancette]

If uneducated illiterate laborers are so good for an economy why isn't Mexico rich. Oh wait the money sent back the Mexican uneducated illiterate laborers here is saving the Mexican economy

[TheBattman]

Follow the money and you will find the reason for this "news"....

[richalessi]

Illegal immigration is allowed for the same reason that chinese imports are allowed. They hide inflation by supressing prices.

Notice that the price of anything not imported from China or produced by an illegal alien is skyrocketing?

Works in the short term but not for much longer.

[11th_VA]

Illegal Immigrants help MEXICAN economy

[Plutarch]

Give them any sort of legal status, and the welfare money flows. Those hard working illegals will have all the work effort of a Katrina victim.

[bigj00]

I could rob art galleries and sell the paintings and if I spent the money that really would be helping the economy.

[mugs99]

Jobs Americans Won't Take" = Jobs Americans used to be able to raise their families with before the slave labor trade took over

Back in the sixties a good drywall man in California could make $300 per day. Illegals have lowered that to $80.
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[lucysmom]

When you factor in the added health, language, education, and other social service costs, that wipes out the entirety of the savings one gets at the supermarket.

Shame on you! You're only supposed to notice the low prices at the supermarket.

[chris1]

"For businesses, cheap labor can translate into fatter profits. If owners use those profits to expand their businesses, it would boost economic activity."

We worship at the altar of the dollar. This type of thinking is what justified slavery and is utterly disgusting.

The reason they can work for less is as follows:

1. They don't pay FICA taxes;
2. They typically live 10 20 to a house;
3. The employer does not have to pay worker's comp etc.
4. The employers don't have to obey labor laws.

Its really about businesses being able to profit off of "willing workers" who will live like third world people and are not under the same laws as typical Americans.

[janetgreen]

Back in the sixties a good drywall man in California could make $300 per day. Illegals have lowered that to $80.

If I recall correctly, after the illegals moved in on the drywall business, they wanted their own union.

[mugs99]

If I recall correctly, after the illegals moved in on the drywall business, they wanted their own union.

Just filling the hole the Ameican Unions won't.
American unions now represent public employees. The American worker has been replaced by the "opressed".
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