How will increased immigration affect the American economy?

I am not anti-immigration, but I don’t think it will affect the economy in a positive way.

“Business interests however are short-term. Easy immediate access to labour will always be preferred to the costs of training and capital investment for the longer term. In the nature of economic cycles, yesterday’s essential labour can often become, as the defunct factories and mills of Europe have shown, today’s unemployed. Employers who demanded immigrant labour are not held to account for this or required to contribute to subsequent costs of their unemployed former workers. Few things are more permanent that temporary worker from a poor country. If business were made responsible for the lifetime costs of their migrant labour in the same way as they must now deal with the lifetime environmental costs of their products, perhaps enthusiasm for labour migration might be moderated and make way for longer-term investment in capital-intensive restructuring.”

Open borders proponents promote the economic benefits of illegal aliens (exploitation of underclass) to the US economy but research shows huge costs to taxpayers.

It depends on who you let in. Educated and skilled immigrants in numbers that do not drive down employment for natives greatly contribute to the country.

Poor immigrants, particularly those who are not educated, will never make enough money to pay taxes large enough to cover their children’s educations and the other services poor families here use. They are a net loss. I think that unless we get rid of all of those illegally here, we can’t take ‘increased’ or even ‘as many’ poor immigrants going forward. Schools are failing and emergency rooms are closing in areas where illegals concentrate, already.

However, the first category is different.

Also, streamlining the H2 visa, which is seasonal and requires the employer to provide housing, and does not allow family to be brought in, would give agriculture as much as they need, if not as much as they greediliy want, for their seasonal work problem.

The problem with illegal immigration is that the illegals take local resources in the way of medicaid, they tax our school systems and do not support the tax base. Then they send money home, so the money does not trickle back into the local economy, it is estimated that last year 80 billion was sent to Mexico out of California alone. So you add this to the billions being consumed out of the resources of local governments and there is your problem in a nutshell. I am not saying bad or good just facts. I think they are good people and hard workers, and something needs to change, i sure don’t have the answers.

More and more low class people feeding off the welfare system. It will widen the gap between the rich and poor making it harder for the middle class to survive. It is a great danger to the economy because they do not have the means to help the economy. The money and services they do are often low income and most of it is shipped out of the country which doesn’t benefit the economy at all.

we are destined to lose if you see what they came from and how they refuse to assimilate here. we lost alot with this influx. the wall is too late. sending them back still makes sense to alot of people.