Mexican Emigration vs. Economic Development

CaliforniaRepublic.org ^ | 6/5/07 | Allan Wall

[NormsRevenge]

Allan Wall recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq. He currently resides in Mexico, where he has lived since 1991.

[Kozak]

TURN THE ENEMIES WEAPON AGAINST HIM

Call the “Senate Immigration Reform Hotline” at 1 800 417 7666
Press 1 for your senior senator, 2 for your junior senator.

This will connect you DIRECTLY to your senator without going through the congressional switchboard.

JAM THE LINES. LET THEM HEAR OUR ANGER AND FURY.

[sheana]

Mexicans working north of the border sent back US$23 billion.

I don’t give a rat’s behind whether this money is helping Mexico or not. It is $23 billion stolen from the American taxpayer.

[pnh102]

It is $23 billion stolen from the American taxpayer.

Perhaps if a 200% tax was put on the money sent to Mexico, it would help.

[utherdoul]

While I don’t like illegal immigration or american currency being sent to a hostile nation I’ve seen those guys out there and they earn every cent of it.

[sheana]

I earn every cent of mine too.....legally. And I would rather keep it than pay for illegals healthcare, food stamps, housing, etc. so they can send all their money back to Mexico or wherever they are from.

[utherdoul]

I don’t disagree with you, but I do disagree with the idea that the money is stolen. Without them to do the heavy dirty labor nobody else would do, who would dish out french fries or bag groceries, or tile my roof?

[penowa]

"...and according to polls nearly half the population would emigrate if possible!"

Get ready for this - and that's ONLY Mexico.

[untenured]

Under some very simple yet plausible assumptions, the existence of the U.S. labor market makes Mexican economic reform impossible, which makes illegal immigration irresistible.

[AuntB]

utherdoul says: “ Without them to do the heavy dirty labor nobody else would do, who would dish out french fries or bag groceries, or tile my roof?”

Without them...we would not need to rebuild the infrastructure of what equals the population of 17 states! All those jobs get done in my area without illegal alliens. They barely produce enough to supply themselves!

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Do you realize if this AMNESTY happens we are in effect creating the equivilent of adding over 17 more states to this country? And that’s not even considering the chain migration that is in the Senate bill.

Please look at what giving amnesty to as many as 20,000,000 illegal alien foreign nationals actually represents. More than the population of 16 states and DC!

According to the 2000 census, 18,785,867 is the total populations combined of Wyoming, Dist. of Columbia, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, Rhode Island, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Maine, Idaho, Nebraska, West Virginia, New Mexico and Nevada.

THINK about that.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/population.shtml

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1840655/posts
Conversation with a Senator -What does AMNESTY look like?

[Tennessee Nana]

“Without them to do the heavy dirty labor nobody else would do, who would dish out french fries or bag groceries, or tile my roof?”

My American citizen tax-payer kids “dish(ed) out french fries or bag(ged) groceries” to work their own way through college, and the illegal aliens who tiled your roof were very well paid...

BTW are you suggesting a slave race?

[Ajnin]

Without them to do the heavy dirty labor nobody else would

This is a myth.

[sheana]

An American? Novel concept, I know.

[snowrip]

They sure as hell don’t earn the $90,000,000,000.00 it costs us annually in state and federal aid.

[snowrip]

Without them to do the heavy dirty labor nobody else would do, who would dish out french fries or bag groceries, or tile my roof?

The same people that did it ten, twenty, and thirty years ago, and the same people that do the majority of that work today... AMERICANS.

Illegals make up roughly 23% of the agricultural labor force, 17% of the construction labor force, and 14% of the service industry labor force... and Americans do the rest.

[utherdoul]

well maybe its different in other parts of the country (taxachusetts is where I am), around here nobody will take those jobs. A few American teenagers do, but without a large presence of migrant workers things would grind to a halt.

Because taxes and the cost of living are so high here we’ve got a divide between very rich retired folk, and migrant workers who do basic tasks. Reason being there isn’t enough native labor to get those things done at wages which can be paid. Without workers we’d be in a sore spot.

[sheana]

You know I actually have Americans that work for me. I have a LEGAL Basque immigrant from Spain for a gardener. I have a garden variety caucasian gal that cleans my house once a month. When we have trees trimmed. house painted, etc. I always tell every company that I call for a quote that if they hire illegals they will not work for me....and that I will find out and turn them in.
With a little effort it is quite easy to find Americans to do all those jobs.

[sheana]

I call BS. I am in an area inundated by illegals and I still find plenty of Americans to do the jobs I need done.

[snowrip]

Anyone that does work, or has ever done work, on my home is an American.