A New Study Shows Immigrants costing Americans their jobs
A new study by the Centre for Immigration Studies reports that from March 2000 to March 2005, there has been a decrease of over 3 million workers, who were born in America, who have a high school diploma or less; while during this same period of time, the number of working immigrants with the same education level increased by 1.5 million.
posted by HeavyHanded at
8:46 AM
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The jobs those immigrants take, for the most part, are jobs the americans mentioned in this article are unwilling to take. Plus, the companies who generally hire these immigrants do so because they can more easily take advantage of them in regards to pay and benifits.
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Matsby, at 9:19 AM
I keep hearing Americans will have to pay higher prices for goods and services if we lost these workers. I keep hearing that they only do the jobs Americans wont do.
Has anyone bothered to figure out what these cheep laborers are costing us.
1. It costs us about $10,000 per child to educate the illegal children of these workers. The Supreme Court has already ruled that we must educate them.
2. The hospitals are treated as their personal health care system. We the people are then stuck wit the tab by way of government intervention and higher medical costs. This results in higher insurance costs and ultimately forces some Americans to stop having it because of these increased costs. Further we see many Health supplying companies and hospitals in the south are going bankrupt for this reason alone.
3. The southern US states are suffering from a human wave of destruction as illegal entrants meet their needs on their dime. Cars stolen, cloths stolen, food stolen, vandilism....the list is long.
4. Social service such as welfare and food stamps have a don't ask policy that taps into the earnings of the rest of America.
5. The suppressed labor market lowers the standard of living for all Americans
With just that list, I could add more, both issues I started with would go away. If we could stop paying all the hemorrhaging costs of the illegals the increase in wages may actually result in lower prices.
There are no jobs that Americans won't do. They simply need to be compensated at a reasonable level. Watch "Dirty Jobs" on the Discovery Channel if you don't believe this. If there truly is a labor shortage in America we could raise our legal immigration numbers. We don't need to have illegals forced down our throats.
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ablur, at 8:46 PM
Good points all, Ablur. I do agree with mediocre gatsby however, in that we need to crack down on American companies that hire illegal immigrants.
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HeavyHanded, at 9:56 PM
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