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Legal immigration is a boon to a free market economy. But what’s happening now is not … that.
Washington Examiner ^ | 06 Sep 2024 | Tiana Lowe Doescher

Posted on 09/06/2024 5:07:02 PM PDT by blueplum

Border Patrol agents have recorded at least 10 million illegal immigrants who have flooded the country since President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office. But that figure doesn’t include the 2 million known “gotaways” and countless others who have evaded formal detection...In addition to this being a human crisis, it’s also an economic one. These illegal immigrants are not working enough....

The average immigrant in this category who has been in the country for two years... only worked 1,400 hours in 2022....at least half are likely living on taxpayer largesse....

Even before Medi-Cal coverage went into effect for California’s undocumented population, illegal immigrants generated just $8.5 billion in state and local taxes in 2022 but cost $22.8 billion...

And when this recent influx of illegal immigrants do work, they generate lower labor productivity than previous waves of immigrants. So who’s paying for these millions of unemployed? We are.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: economy; illegals; immigrants

1 posted on 09/06/2024 5:07:02 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

When the foreigners get all of the jobs and benefits from our renegade feral government the economy means diddly squat. Our government is illegitimate.


2 posted on 09/06/2024 5:19:19 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: blueplum
Legal immigration is a boon to a free market economy.

Not always.

It depends on the amount of people coming in, the quality of people coming in, the culture of the people coming in and if there is any need for any more people coming in at all.

Just slapping "legal" on something does not mean it is beneficial.

3 posted on 09/06/2024 5:25:18 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: blueplum

350 Million is enough, let’s let our energy infrastructure, housing, and job market catch up for fifty years first.


4 posted on 09/06/2024 5:25:47 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
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To: blueplum

Legal immigration means controlled immigration. We are being invaded. Gangs will be taking over cities like Aurora, CO. There will be no go zones controlled by gangs, because police are not equipped to handle better armed gangs.


5 posted on 09/06/2024 5:33:32 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( @whoisourPresident)
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To: blueplum

Legal with immigrants that assimilate is key. It’s a natural reaction when immigrants are vette, safe and want to join a society rather than change it to where they came from.
AuroraCo for example. The Venezuelans there behave as if they are still in Venezuela.


6 posted on 09/06/2024 5:37:16 PM PDT by griswold3 ( Robespierre and Pol Pot were “unburdened by what has been” Harris the "Year Zero" candidate)
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America is a Nation not just an economic zone. We don’t need more foreigners


7 posted on 09/06/2024 6:08:53 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: blueplum

I’d like to know where these starving bastards are getting the 80K to pay for new SUVs.


8 posted on 09/06/2024 6:28:07 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Liberals are FOS. The greatest threat to "democracy" is freeloader "immigration". Stupid morons.)
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To: blueplum
Legal immigration is a boon to a free market economy

Highly debatable statement

9 posted on 09/06/2024 10:26:13 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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Great Replacement Job Shock: 1.3 Million Native-Born Americans Just Lost Their Jobs, Replaced by 635,000 Immigrants
https://americafirstreport.com/great-replacement-job-shock-1-3-million-native-born-americans-just-lost-their-jobs-replaced-by-635000-immigrants/

“since October 2019, native-born US workers have lost 1.4 million jobs; over the same period foreign-born workers have gained 3 million jobs.”


10 posted on 09/07/2024 2:20:26 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: blueplum

LEGAL immigration lowers wages and needs to stop for decades. End H-1B visas.


11 posted on 09/07/2024 2:34:56 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: griswold3
Legal immigrants vote Democrat over Republican 9:1. Why do you think Democrats love it so much?
12 posted on 09/07/2024 2:36:14 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: blueplum
They aren’t being brought here to work.

They’re being brought here to be the next generation of customers for major corporations and government agencies.

It’s really that simple, folks.

13 posted on 09/07/2024 5:56:58 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Ain't it funny how the night moves … when you just don't seem to have as much to lose.”)
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To: escapefromboston

I’m not sure America was ever a nation.


14 posted on 09/07/2024 5:58:31 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Ain't it funny how the night moves … when you just don't seem to have as much to lose.”)
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