04-28-2006, 06:09 PM
BIRD33 Wrote:Most of them arent interested in becoming citizens.Since when is our immigration system even capable of handling the actual amount of immigrants we get a year?Wouldnt it hurt the businesses that use these illegals because they would have to pay them a living wage since everthing would have to be on the books in order for the immigrants paperwork to be valid?You cant let someone in legally and them have them work at a $3.00 an hour job without the employer getting into trouble.We've let them in and out of our country for the last 100 years to benefit our economy and its worked so who really cares that much?If you stack up all the medical care we provide to these illegals compared to the savings thats passed onto the consumer in the end by them working cheap its the deal of the century for America.I understand the securing the borders argument when it comes to terrorism but focusing on the illegals like they are alqeida is ridiculous.
That right there is where the problem starts and ends. Americans as a whole have hoisted themselfs into believing the jobs that these immigrants do is above them. Employers get a break on the wages they pay the illegals, cook the books to cover the loss and eat the taxes on money they don't have. Imagine your walmart.
You pay a truck load of mexicans under the table to clean the floors.
It costs you 300 bucks. (just pulling a number outta my head)
To pay a citizen to do it it'll cost you 500 bucks.
now I'm not 100% certain but it seems to me the government would do better if they were collecting taxes from both walmart and the worker at a higher rate than just collecting from walmart on money they made, but don't really have. This leads to a trickle down effect that puts more money into the governments hands which would hopefully lead to tax breaks to americans on a whole. respectively covering the costs of higher good prices. so the only thing good to come from that would be having secure borders? maybe I'm just too closed minded but I don't see the problem.

