Undermining American workers:(Illegal Immigrants Are Pulling Wages Down - Pushing Taxes Higher)

Los Angeles Times ^ | Juy 20, 2003l | Fred Dickey

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The perils of illegal immigration rattle around in the attic of public policy like a troubled spirit. We pretend not to hear the dragging chains because we don't know how to silence them, but the ghosts will endure, especially in California. Because the nation can't control its borders, the number of illegal immigrants grows by an estimated half-million each year. They come because we invite them with lax law enforcement and menial jobs. Their presence makes our own poor more destitute, creating a Third World chaos in the California economy that we are only beginning to understand.

Patricia Morena has no time for a philosophical discussion on unauthorized immigration. She lives with it, or tries to. She's a U.S. citizen of Mexican descent, and a motel maid in Chula Vista, six miles north of the border. She's short and heavyset, and dresses with care in tasteful thrift shop. She earns $300 before taxes, when she's fortunate enough to have a five-day week. She's a single mom with three children, all stuffed into a ratty little one-bedroom apartment. The eldest, an 18-year-old boy, has taken to stealing; she thinks it's because he's always been poor.

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That loss of tax revenue is key to understanding why unchecked illegal immigration creates a downward economic spiral. Jan. C. Ting, Temple University law professor and former assistant commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, says the swelling population of poor people who have little more than manual labor to offer, and who pay few taxes, will inevitably draw heavily on social services. That drain will, in turn, increase taxes on businesses and homeowners, who may depart for other states, which in turn will drive tax rates even higher.

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[Eustace]

You can't blame the illegal immigrants who have it better under our tyrants than their own.

What about the employers who hire these people?

What about our own government who floods America with legal immigrants to drive wages down?

What about our own government who recruited corporations to leave America and relocate in other countries , paid for with our tax dollars? Allowing them to sell their products back to American's with prices like they were made in America , without charging them tarrifs.

Wages ARE going to go down and taxes ARE going to go up.

But it's not the illegal immigrants doing it to American's , it's their own government.

Fight , but fight the right people.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Because the nation can't control its borders, the number of illegal immigrants grows by an estimated half-million each year

It's like the equivalent of adding a MAJOR city a year full of nothing but illegal aliens, while many are more concerned with the personal problems of basketball players.

Big trouble is waiting down the road.

[Joe Hadenuf]

That loss of tax revenue is key to understanding why unchecked illegal immigration creates a downward economic spiral.

The endless rape of the American tax payer.

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

"Los Angeles Times" will take some heat for printing this article. They are usually more Politically Correct than this.
Here's a website with good info on this subject and makes activism easy:
http://www.numbersusa.com/index

[moehoward]

"Big trouble is waiting down the road."

Indeed it is. Politicians deaf ear on the subject will certainly push this to critical mass. Things are going to get violent.

In the past few days there has been a huge increase in Illegals coming in.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Indeed it is. Politicians deaf ear on the subject will certainly push this to critical mass. Things are going to get violent.

It already has!

In the west alone, in just the past year, 3 police officers have been murdered by illegal aliens, and many other illegals have left a path of thousands of American victims in their wake, not to mention to what these millions are doing to us economically etc.

How soon everyone forgets, one of the mass murdering DC snipers, that had the entire region of that part of the country in a damn panic for weeks, was another illegal alien. American's are a patient people, and the patients is now paper thin, or in many cases, completely gone....

[moehoward]

Yes, hardly a day goes by that there isn't a story in the news about some Illegal raping, robbing or murdering an American citizen.

I should have been more clear. I meant violence at the border. As the gate crashers meet more resistance, they will resort to more drastic measures to gain access.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Yes, hardly a day goes by that there isn't a story in the news about some Illegal raping, robbing or murdering an American citizen.

You bet, as our so-called leaders stand in silence, winking and nodding at this.

[Elliott Jackalope]

I've been raving about this for years and years now. Nobody wanted to listen to me then. They are just starting to want to listen now, but it is too late. Any serious effort to remove the illegals will most likely spark civil unrest at the least, and civil war in the worst case.

The damage is done. The prognosis is not good. We've lost our country. There really is no option of "taking it back". All that is left is possibly carving out a new piece of what remains and claiming that as our new nation.

[moehoward]

Me too. On other boards when the topic comes up (sometimes by me) any attempt to point out what's happening, is met with the usual comments. "Xenophobic", "Racist" etc. By the time these people get it, it truly will be too late.

[Joe Hadenuf]

The damage is done. The prognosis is not good. We've lost our country. There really is no option of "taking it back". All that is left is possibly carving out a new piece of what remains and claiming that as our new nation.

That's very interesting that you stated that at this time. I wont reveal what I am personally doing right now, but in a small way, it's similar to what you just referred to. And we are very excited about it.

[Joe Hadenuf]

By the time these people get it, it truly will be too late.

And they will fully deserve everything they get.

[virgil]

I've heard on the news today how there are not enough jobs for college students this summer.

[Drango]

Great article bump!