If ILLEGAL aliens are removed from society, employers would have to pay an American worker at least the minimum wage and the associated payroll/other taxes. Hence, the price of the same goods and services would go up.
Given the choice, I prefer the jobs go to Americans first. No brainer.
And then a whole new wave of illegals would come in to undercut the wages of those newly-legalized illegals, who would end up unemployed. But that's OK because, being legal, they could then draw unemployment benefits.
And then we'd have to set about legalizing the newly-arrived illegals and . . . .
However, the cost of the services that we provide to illegals would go down...
Something tells me to risk it. You can't reward illegal behavior just because you want things cheaper.
Do you honestly believe that employers who scoff at the law now will obey new laws?? Illegals who suddenly become legal will simply lose their jobs and join their brothers and sisters on the welfare rolls as their employers bus in new illegal employees to replace them and skirt the new law.
And so employers will be shipping in a whole new line of "under the table" cheap labor workers. And 20 years from now, we'll be in the same situation we are today, except that 59% of America's population will be "Latino".
Given the choice, I prefer the jobs go to Americans first. No brainer.
No doubt. If the illegal aliens are naturalized won't they demand health care, retirement bennies, paid vacation, family leave and sick days? In fact they won't have to demand it the law would require it wouldn't it? And, like you said, employers will let them go and hire all new illegal foreign nationals who will be coming here in a ratio of 3-1, like last time amnesty was granted, because of what they see has just happened. Again.