Does illegal immigration benefit the US in any way?

Question

Just wondering, any benefits... like, monetary, for example? (BTW, this isn't some sarcastic question, I'm really wondering, because I always hear people complain, and others say illegal immigration is good. I know the argument for why its bad, but what is the argument for how it is good?) Include links if you can.

Answer 1

COST OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal

aliens each year. http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance

programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscale...

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal

aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscale...

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they  cannot speak a word of English! http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0...

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the

American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal

aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0...

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal

aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0...

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.

http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCRI PTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0...

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the United States . http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0...

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MIL LION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S. from the Southern border.

12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total

cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period." http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/p...

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.

14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million

s*x Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States ".

So using the LOWEST estimates, the annual cost OF ILLEGAL ALIENS is $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!   So if deporting them costs between $206 and $230 BILLION DOLLARS, get rid of em', We'll be ahead after the 1st year!!!

Please pass this on.   Americans need to wake up!  

Answer 2

my God, they buy all products and they pay taxes knowing they will not receive refund. usa keeps all that money.

Answer 3

Cheap labor, they do jobs like pick fruit that no American would do.  If Americans did apples would cost three times as much.

Answer 4

It is a terrible burden on all Americans. Illegals take jobs Americans can & WILL do.  Our schools are over crowded , health care costs going up & wages continue to be stagnant.  The only ones who benefit are the company's who hire them & get cheap labor.

Answer 5

yes everybody knows they keep prices low, and do jobs Americans wont do, dont be ungrateful with them learn to say thank you.

Answer 6

they take all the jobs no one wants for little pay.

Answer 7

No, I can't think of any true benefit to this country. We have mentally challenged citizens who are losing their menial labor jobs to illegals. We have millions of potential immigrants who apply legally and there reward is to put them at the end of the line. We are rewarding lawbreakers and when they get caught and they are deported we hear their sob stories. Did it ever occur to the pro-illegals that the people who are waiting patiently in line have their own stories filled with strife and tragedy? Legal immigrants have a chance to improve not only their own lives but the life of our country. Illegal immigrants are doomed to a lifetime of living in the shadows and they only thing that can contribute to is the rising crime rate simply because of their status.

Answer 8

I am sure you can find some way ALL criminals "benefit" the country they live in in SOME way. SO WHAT??

Does that mean they should be allowed to break the law????

NO!!!!

Answer 9

IRS collects taxes from illegals, good workers, buy products and homes/cars, etc. the illegals i know have always paid for health care out of THEIR pockets.

Answer 10

It's good because the illegals take all the jobs nobody wants.

There are other good points but it gets me so mad thinking about it I don't want to go to bed pissed off.

For every pro, there's 2 cons.

Answer 11

The impact on Social Security is significant, though, because most of that money is never claimed by the people who pay it but instead helps cover retirement checks to legal workers.

This is especially important as the 78 million-member baby boom generation begins to leave the workforce and draw Social Security checks.

Ford, of Middle Tennessee State University, said a majority of economists agree that illegal immigrants are a net benefit for the U.S. economy.

Answer 12

It's absolutely fabulous for a corporation's bottom-line. Why go through the hassle of moving operations to Mexico or China when you can take advantage of the illegal immigrants running around your own neighborhood who are willing to do the job for half of minimum wage? I suppose that the government had to do something (i.e. open our borders wide open so illegals could come in) so that ALL  businesses wouldn't go to Mexico, China, or India. P.S. From what I've heard, illegals work hard for about a year or two, and then you have to yell and threaten them like any of the legal workers.

Answer 13

There are no benefits in any way whatsoever.  Apologists for illegal aliens who claim they "do jobs Americans won't do" or "keep down the price of food" are lying.  They have been proven wrong time and again and still try to befuddle the ignorant and the lazy who won't research the facts.  Immigration-law violators do nothing but harm to the citizens of any country whose laws they violate.

Answer 14

NO illegals DO NOT do the jobs everyone else won't.  how the h**l can we when they are taking over?  i can't find a d**n job, and i'm willing to do anything.

it's because they work cheaply, only because our money is worth more in mexico.  

how are we supposed to survive if the people that have 10+ years of job experience can't even find a job?

we should worry about our own country and people first, then help others with their resources.

Answer 15

The benefit the greedy employer that want's to pay $5 an hour instead of what the job really should pay.

Answer 16

People love to say that it will keep the cost of food down by having illegals pick apples or tomatoes or other fruit or vegetables.  Well the market keeps the price down.  Food (apples etc.) can only go as high as the market is willing to bear.  There comes a point when people will not buy a product because it gets to be too expensive.  it only helps the greedy businessmen who make more of a profit off of selling apples picked by illegals.

For example last year a friend of mine had his roof re-shingled and the roofer gave him a decent price.  The owner of the business had illegals working for him and he paid them in cash.  The roofers got $150.00 a day off the books.  This is more profit for the businessman because the owner does not have to pay SS or other payroll taxes for American workers.  If he had American workers he would still have to pay a similar amount to his American workers but his profit margin would not be as high since he has more overhead expense.  The Customer could not pay more money so the roofer would not be able to charge more because the market will only bear so much.

Another thing. Two years ago when we had the spinach scare because of the e-coli outbreak it was found out that immigrant workers had defecated on the spinach and the spinach then went into

Also the Taco Bell scare was done by immigrant workers who did not use sanitary procedures on purpose.  Also this spring we had the tomatoe scare.

All these things are happening since the Federal Government began increased deportations of illegal aliens over two years ago.  

if you do a google search there was a governmnet report saying that the congress realized that the outbreaks of food poisonings were a reaction to the increased deportations of illegal aliens.

Also people who say that they (the illegals, immigrants) do jobs that Americans won't do well they should ask themselves who did these jobs before the illegals came.  Who worked in restaurants before the Mexicans came.....  Who worked in the food processing plants in the 1920's 1930's 1940' 1950's etc before all the illegals started comming in the 1970's

Who worked in constructing the bridges and the highways and all the houses that were built before the 1970's influx of illegal aliens.  Who built the planes in the factories that helped us win ww2.  Who built Hoover dam in Nevada.......  Who built the Erie canal in New York. state.  

so remember the same roof workers who were immigrants being paid in cash now can get food stamps medicaid for themselves and their children and if they live in the suburbs then they rent a basment in a house and send their 4 or 5 kids to Public school without paying taxes while American citizens then have to pay more property and school taxes becasue these people don't pay.

Also even if some illegals pay taxes their salaries then are usually very low and they are elegible for the earned income tax credit from the IRS and for a person with kids then they get $6,000.00 extra dollars for an income of up to $32,000.00.  so if you as citizen earn maybe $50,000.00 then after all the taxes that the govenment takes out of you City state and Federal) then you take home about $32,000.  But the illegals and other low paid immigrants earn $32,000.00 pay a little bit of taxes and then get $6,000.00 extra refund so they wind up with more spending money that you as the higher paid American working class tax payer.  

As the expression goes,  "God what a country!"  Where the politicians treat the foreigners better than the citizens........

Will Barack Obama change this crazy situation.  Since he is always talking about change.  Well let him change this crazy situation.

We know John Wayne McCain will not do it.  Lets' see if Barack will do the right thing for the American working class taxpayer......

http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot...

The above links discuss the dangers of having illegals working in the food supply of this country and all the diseases that we can be exposed to.

Here are some copied and pasted segments but click onto the link for the whole story.

The source for these diseases is f***s, both human and animal, which taints the water, food, preparation surfaces in restaurant kitchens from dirty hands. No, not all of the above food contamination situations can be directly connected to illegal aliens, but some of them can. Some are connected to other countries such as Mexico, other Latin American countries, Costa Rica, and more.

Some (I won't mention them specifically here) have suggested that illegal aliens are intentionally contaminating crops in our fields and even go so far as to suggest they are contaminating food in restaurants. I have no proof of this. But we all need to be very careful, wash your hands, wash your food, try to find out where your food comes from.

Answer 17

Corporations are making HUGE profits because their labour costs (low wages & no benefits) are very low.

So it benefits the shareholders and the rich people.

Does not benefit the middle class (whats left of it) and the poor people.  

Answer 18

I hear everybody saying that illegal aliens do ALL the jobs that nobody else will do.

1) Meat packing: raid and jobs filled by Americans

2) Transformer manufacturing: raid jobs filled by Americans

3) Why then do Americans fill the jobs after the companies get raided?

4) Only criminal invaders will pick fruit: only 2% of illegal aliens work in agriculture. The price of apples is not going to skyrocket. Americans will do those jobs too! You just have to pay them a livable wage and employers will have to pay taxes, etc.

5) Illegal immigration does no one except crooked business any good!

Answer 19

only american companies that are too greedy to pay what american workers would settle for.  here's an idea- lets put some of our welfare recipients who are able to work in place of illegal alien workers.

Answer 20

If illegal immigration is good,then what is Legal Immigration?