We also need to cut off all immigrants that are here on work visas from government entitlements.
Even if they are here legally, they need to support themselves and provide a benefit to our economy, or they should be deported.
Students here on student visas should also be able to fully support themselves while here, or should be deported.
Unless we are granting aslyum for some reason, our immigration system is supposed to benefit the United States, not import other country's problems.
However, I do have some questions on how they plan on accomplishing mass deportations of illegal immigrants.
How do we streamline our deportation process yet still give due process to those who may qualify for aslyum or meet residency requirements?
The percentage that qualify for such things are likely small, but lawyers are really good at dragging things out.
How do we make deporting millions of illegal immigrants a reality when our court system can process a fraction of that?
I also have to question this number.
Moreover, illegals have a negative impact on the jobs and income of American-born workers. The NPI paper cites a study by a Harvard professor, George Borjas, who estimates that every 10 percent increase in the labor force due to immigration results in a 3.5 percent decrease in native-born wages. The loss to American workers will be staggering when, as the U.S. Census forcasts, the illegal percentage of the labor force reaches 34 percent in 2025.
So, how much are they proposing that illegal immigrants are hurting wages now? Our unemployment rate is at 5% even with the current number of illegal workers. Historicly unemployment rates don't go and stay much lower.
We don't have widespread unemployment problems in the US right now even with the large number of illegal workers. If you shrink the workforce you'll force companies out of business.
You will raise wages in some job types due to increased competition for workers, which will result in inflation. Some workers are better off, but as a whole our economy shrinks and inflation rises.
I'm all for deporting illegal aliens, however we do have a need for a limited number of legal immigrant workers.
"How do we streamline our deportation process yet still give due process to those who may qualify for aslyum or meet residency requirements? "
Illegals are not entitled to due process, only citizens. Out they go.
Employers who have been breaking the law employing illegals for decades get no sympathy from me at all. If they go out of business then they've earned it. But they won't, they'll adapt and pay living wages to legal Americans. It might be painful for some at first, but that pain is deserved, and will be more short-lived than the problems their illegal behavior has caused.
I think the same thing was said about slavery once.