Illegal immigration has slowed. It is not zero. If the economy ever recovers, it will take off again unless we enforce our laws. However, even assuming perpetual stagnation, we still have 11 million illegals living here. Sending them home would create 6-7 million jobs for Americans. We need them. Wages would rise. That’s a “good” thing.

Letting the illegals stay will enable them and their children to be an ever greater burden on our nation. We will end up with a less educated, poorer, more polarized, more unequal, more congested, etc. nation.

Do we need more poverty? Unemployment? Failing schools?

This topic has been extensively researched and the results are highly negative. A number of references make this point all to clearly.

1. The 1997 National Academy of Sciences study found that each low-skilled immigrant costs $89,000 over the course of his/her lifetime. See http://bit.ly/98KcJf

“The NRC estimates indicated that the average immigrant without a high school education imposes a net fiscal burden on public coffers of $89,000 during the course of his or her lifetime. The average immigrant with only a high school education creates a lifetime fiscal burden of $31,000.”

2. There is little evidence that the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of illegals will do much better. Samuel Huntington looked at this subject in his book, “Who Are We”. See Table 9.1 on page 234 or http://bit.ly/foZPxH. The bottom line is that educational attainment rises from the first to the second generation and then plateaus at levels far below the national average. For example, even by the fourth generation only 9.6% of Mexican-Americans have a post-high school degree.

3. The Heritage foundation found that low-skill immigrant households impose huge tax costs on Americans. See “The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Immigrants to the U.S. Taxpayer” (http://bit.ly/98MAOo). The summary is

“In FY 2004, low-skill immigrant households received $30,160 per household in immediate benefits and services (direct benefits, means-tested benefits, education, and population-based services). In general, low-skill immigrant households received about $10,000 more in government benefits than did the average U.S. household, largely because of the higher level of means-tested welfare benefits received by low-skill immigrant households. In contrast, low-skill immigrant households pay less in taxes than do other households. On average, low-skill immigrant households paid only $10,573 in taxes in FY 2004. Thus, low-skill immigrant households received nearly three dollars in immediate benefits and services for each dollar in taxes paid. A household’s net fiscal deficit equals the cost of benefits and services received minus taxes paid. When the costs of direct and means-tested benefits, education, and population-based services are counted, the average low-skill household had a fiscal deficit of $19,588 (expenditures of $30,160 minus $10,573 in taxes).”

4. Heather MacDonald has written extensively on the bleak realities of mass unskilled immigration. I recommend “Seeing Today’s Immigrants Straight” (http://bit.ly/hl5aZP). Key quote

“If someone proposed a program to boost the number of Americans who lack a high school diploma, have children out of wedlock, sell drugs, steal, or use welfare, he’d be deemed mad. Yet liberalized immigration rules would do just that. The illegitimacy rate among Hispanics is high and rising faster than that of other ethnic groups; their dropout rate is the highest in the country; Hispanic children are joining gangs at younger and younger ages. Academic achievement is abysmal.”

5. Edward P. Lazear’s (CEA / Harvard Economics) paper “Mexican Assimilation in the United States” has a wealth of statistics showing the raw deal from south of the border. Summary quote.

“By almost any measure, immigrants from Mexico have performed worse and become assimilated more slowly than immigrants from other countries. Still, Mexico is a huge country, with many high ability people who could fare very well in the United States. Why have Mexicans done so badly? The answer is primarily immigration policy.”

See also “Lazear on Immigration” (http://bit.ly/eGV9iR). Money quote

“Immigrants from Mexico do far worse when they migrate to the United States than do immigrants from other countries. Those difficulties are more a reflection of U.S. immigration policy than they are of underlying cultural differences. The following facts from the 2000 U.S. Census reveal that Mexican immigrants do not move into mainstream American society as rapidly as do other immigrants.”

You can read the rest over at the Borjas blog.

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Maybe you should read my remarks once more. Maybe you have known a few who desperately wanted a young child - then conceived one, simply to learn the fetus had terrible abnormalities? Maybe you have paid attention to their doctors let them know the deformed child wouldn't survive, but would only reside in terrible pain provided she or he existed? Maybe you have paid the medical expense? Well, I've known those who have faced this type of dilemma. My statement concerned contraception and also the enormous burden placed through the Chinese upon the ladies. Before I looked, I saw that ladies can't make themselves pregnant with no sperm donor. I'm certain you like the thought of visual impact muscle building having through the State to hold via a pregnancy that was brought on by incest (and - obviously, rape). Well, healthy for you. Will you comfort the kid who had been instructed to give birth. Are you going to adopt the infant? I did not think so!

To be brutally honest, if your job is capable of being stolen by an illegal alien, you are an effing moron. You don't deserve to be paid at a living wage in this country. It means you have little to no skills and education and your job could be done by someone who usually has no more than a grade school education, doesn't speak your language and can work for peanuts (or be done by children overseas). seslichat here is no reason why anyone in this country is incapable of getting a HS diploma and at a minimum some kind of trade skills so they don't have to work as unskilled mute labor.