I find it disturbing the amount of people that think illegal immigrants in our nation helps the economy and the stereotype that the illegals are good, hard working people.
1) The to 5 states for identity theft each year over the last 10 years per capita, includes Arizona at #1, followed closely by Nevada, California, Texas in the top 5 year after year. Wonder Why?
2) Many illegals work, abide by laws and pay taxes, but many don't, and their family members in both situations tend to collect food stamps and other government assistance without paying into the system what they collect as a whole.
3) The children often don't speak english to begin with, or have trouble speaking it since it is not the native language in the household, many states, Arizona is a great example have to spend much of their educational dollars just to get these kids the ability to speak english,... an additional burden on citizens paying their due in taxes that doesn't go for the greater good of citizens.
4) Many illegals take advantage of free healthcare,.. in Arizona if they are low wage earners, it is Ahcccs,... I am sure many states have these types of programs, and hospitals cannot refuse health care,... it drives up health care costs, and health care insurance rates (ever wonder why health care is skyrocketing,.. here is part of the answer)
5) The more residents,.... illegal or not,.. the more cost on infrastructure,.. roads, police, fire, etc,... if illegals don't pay into the system what they burden on the system,... it is again a net loss,.. and burden on taxpayers
6) Illegals tend to have lower education levels and take lower wage jobs,... this tends to place a pressure on lower end jobs to stay lower or move lower,.. these jobs don't pay more over time since there is such an influx coming in to take it for the same wage as last year,... this hurts legal citizens with lower education, lower skills, etc, trying to start off and move up
7) Many Americans ARE willing to do these jobs that some people say we are not,... it was common place for us to be doing them prior to the wave of illegals flooded us so badly the last decade. There are many that are displaced and lose their jobs each year to an illegal.
8) There was a study in Arizona recently released,... 19% of all felonies were committed by illegals,.. they do commit crime,... not just here to work.... let me expand on that
In 2007, 4 Phoenix police officers were shot and killed,... 3 were by illegals,...
Numerous crimes of sexual molestation were committed on minors in 2007 by illegals,.. that were caught,...
The drug pipeline comes from and through Mexico,... don't you think many of the illegals that come from Mexico and other central/south American countries will be importing those drugs and setting up shop here,... there is no statistic for that, that is just common sense
Phoenix is now the kidnap capital of the United States,... many are "coyotes" (smugglers of illegals) then holding captive the illegals for ransom,...
The price of food would not skyrocket as the common ignorant people want us to believe if we didn't have this cheap labor,.. our economy would adjust,....think about this,... if lettuce (which is labor intensive) were to become to expensive,.. people would not buy it and eat other things,.. suppliers would grow other crops like corn to make profit,... south of the border (or other countries where costs are lower) you would find new suppliers come forth to fill the hole. If it went south of the border to Mexico, they would have a benefit to their economy as they would have more jobs to farm lettuce there and export it to the United States,.. this would then in turn help the Mexican economy and start lessining the need for their cititzens to come here to find work,... that is one example, but very valid.
These are just some quick things,.. I could go further as I see this happening everyday here in Arizona. It has nothing to do with being racist as some want to throw out so quickly. It has a lot to do with people being fed up, regardless of race or country of origin (many of the illegals are not Mexican, they are further south in central and south America, but of course some will say it is still racist, hardly, I would feel the same if Canadians were invading us in this manner, or any other race, it won't happen because africans, asians, etc would have a much harder time crossing an ocean then crossing the border, but it does happen)
Now pointing this to the OP's point of view,.. they are leaving or not invading as badly,... it can actually help our economy in the long run by not having this influx,... or at least if not considering that,.. at least we are not having to deal with it as much, alleviating the frustration we have endured,... that is the OP point,...
Comments from those people like "shira" are ignorant
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