Article

2010-01-08 Home Front: Politix

Legalizing ~~illegal~~ unauthorized immigrants would help economy, study says

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-01-08 05:26|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Not to mention, global warming!

Posted by Bobby 2010-01-08 05:54|| 2010-01-08 05:54|| Front Page Top

#2 It's likely true in the sense of overall economic activity. However, it is almost certainly to the detriment of existing citizen, particularly low skilled and low paid ones. It is also generally to the benefit of high paid workers, because the immigrants drive down wages in unskilled occupations.

Posted by phil_b 2010-01-08 07:07|| 2010-01-08 07:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, it will certainly help the economies of those nations which intentionally dump their population, on the US, to avoid real reform and revolution. One just has to look at California and see the impact upon an economy and legal system that is being taken down by the weight of millions of unskilled and assimilated in a nanny welfare state.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-01-08 07:58|| 2010-01-08 07:58|| Front Page Top

#4 because the immigrants drive down wages in unskilled occupations.

No problem - just hike up the minimum wage.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-01-08 08:18|| 2010-01-08 08:18|| Front Page Top

#5 The Democrats are now planning a blanket amnesty and citizenship for all illegals, figuring it is the one way they can avoid an election blowout, nationwide giving them 8-10M more voters.

They are planning to start in on immigration as soon as Obamacare is passed, and right after the State of the Union address.

Don't laugh, the left did exactly that in the Netherlands and England and it worked. The Democrats have been in consultation with them as to how to bring in *more* aliens, not just Mexicans, as quickly as possible.

This is because Mexicans often vote for conservative Republicans, and they want immigrants who will reliably vote only Democrat.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-01-08 09:23|| 2010-01-08 09:23|| Front Page Top

#6 If the immigrants are legalized but not given citizenship, the consequences are drastically different depending on what you assume about:

- does biz still pay them less than min wages even though its illegal
- how well does biz do in collecting social security
- how will utilization of hospitals, etc. increase with more immigrants
- do legalized immigrants commit fewer crimes once they are legalized

Based on your assumptions, you can produce a study with a wide range of conclusions.

Posted by lord garth 2010-01-08 11:26|| 2010-01-08 11:26|| Front Page Top

#7 You think you can legalize the ones that are already here and prevent any more of them from coming? Seems to me we've heard that before. It didn't work then and there's no reason to believe it ever will.

They're turning the United States into a Third World country. We're gonna be as crowded as India or China. We're gonna be poor and polluted. We won't have adequate clean water. Infrastructure will crumble. Crime rates will skyrocket. Corruption will be worse than it already is. Housing will be rat and cockroach infected cracker boxes in multi-story slums. Call me a racist if you want. I'm not. But that's what's gonna happen. In Southern California it is already happening.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-01-08 12:28|| 2010-01-08 12:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh please! Cracker boxes are where the maids, handy men and delivery boys live. Real people live in Malibu and have $22,000 water bills.

Posted by ed 2010-01-08 13:52|| 2010-01-08 13:52|| Front Page Top

#9 For $22,000 a month you could have your own private lake. Seriously, if she's living on a bluff over the ocean, she needs to be concerned about the effect all that water is having on the bluff. It'd be funny to see that mansion of hers sliding into the surf.

She might think she's safe in that little enclave of hers but when there are a billion people living in this country it's gonna be a whole other ballgame.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-01-08 14:31|| 2010-01-08 14:31|| Front Page Top

23:59 JosephMendiola
23:59 JosephMendiola
23:57 JosephMendiola
23:42 borgboy
23:40 borgboy
23:34 Don Vito Uleash
23:20 Big Phugum2142
22:57 Old Patriot
22:49 abu do you love
22:44 Pappy
22:42 Pappy
22:40 gorb
22:40 abu do you love
22:37 Old Patriot
22:33 746
22:32 gorb
22:31 746
22:28 phil_b
22:24 SteveS
22:24 trailing wife
22:23 SteveS
22:19 remoteman
22:16 Pappy
22:13 Pappy