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Originally posted by AXO_MOM_3
Oh, for starters, do a search of Cost - Illegal Immigrants and see what you come up with...I found an article about hospitals closing due to being unable to take on the burden of uninsured immigrants (http://www.usvisanews.com/memo886.html) and the cost of educating these people (http://sophorist.com/archives/000201.html). I'm sure there is more, and you can find both sides of the argument if you look hard enough. But the first five pages where pretty negative for the illegals... maybe someone else can find the pros and how illegals help reduce the costs.
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Thanks, but I am looking for something that isn't so "slanted" or based on personal opinions. The article about the immigrant in the accident is really no different that a US citizen who does not have health insurance. Speaking of personal experience, I can't began ti tell you how many cases come across my desk of US citizens involved in serious car accidents that have no health insurance.
I'm looking for something a little more netural. Maybe something from a federal (dept. of labor and stats) website. I'll keep searching though.....
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Ok, I found some research from the Bureau of Labor and Stats.
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2003/04/art2full.pdf .
Here is what they found:
The 1989–99 analysis shows that the conventional wisdom regarding immigrants’ contribution to poverty has some merit in that the increased share of immigrants did place upward pressure on poverty rates. None of the preceding discussion should be taken to imply
that immigration plays no role in the economic trends of the
1990s, but, thus far, immigration’s role appears to have been
overstated at the expense of other, more fundamentally economic
factors. Both New York and California, for example, saw larger than average increases in inequality over the decade, and the
incomes of the wealthy pulled far ahead of those at the middle
and the bottom of the income scale.8 In many States, the increase in inequality meant that the growth that did occur went
disproportionately to those at the top of the income scale, leaving
those at the lower end more vulnerable to poverty, regardless of
their status as natives or immigrants.
So if there are no naturalization programs for those that are here illegally (meaning that would allow to become US citizens, pay taxes, etc.), maybe this is something that we should be considering.
Not only do they do the work that many of us won't do, but big business knows that its causes minimal impact to their bottom line (low wages, no health benefit cost, etc.). Emotions and stereotypes aside, US companies are not going to allow us to deport illegal immigrants. Sadly, moretimes than not, profit wins out over anything else. If it didn't, we wouldn't so many lobbyist running around Washington.
