Employers would be forced to pay higher salaries and the price of certain goods and services would rise if illegals were expelled or greatly reduced in number. The market would adjust accordingly. The increased costs must be offset by the lower taxes that would result from the lesser need for taxpayer funded social services such as schools, health care, etc. Most illegals pay little in the way of taxes, yet are a major expense due to the need to educate their children, take care of their critical medical needs, etc.
Additionally, America is a nation with defined borders and a culture. Uncontrolled immigration makes a mockery of the borders and, in many places, overwhelms the culture with a Third World environment.
True. On the other side of that coin; if the illegals are made citizens they will get, by force of law, vacation bennies, health bennies, family leave, retirement accounts and all that stuff. The businesses who employ them now will drop them like hot rocks and get more illegals. Where will the new Americans work?
"Perhaps in the fancy suburbs of Fairfield County and the wealthier parts of the New Haven and Hartford metro areas, people can afford illegal aliens to watch your children and mow their lawns. If we got rid of the illegals, the elite snobs might have to (gasp!) pay native born Americans a higher salary to do those tasks. In fact, they may have to (horrors!!) do the work themselves."
Good post!
Hell, I did most of that stuff as a teen!(girls babysitted)
Mowed the neighbors lawns, cleaned pools, had a part time job washing dishes too! -- all that.
We did it to make extra spending money... and I wasn't raised in a poor neighborhood either!
We didn't need Illegals to do any of this stuff then and we don't need them now!