"Now, there is some evidence already that many of them are already returning to their home countries - and many others are not making the dangerous trip north to work, because the work has vanished. "
What crap.
No, they owe to themselves and to us to go back where they came from and obey our laws!
No, they owe to themselves and to us to go back where they came from and obey our laws!
But, but the Census department says they know just how many, it is 12 million. The government couldn't be wrong, could it?
Now, there is some evidence already that many of them are already returning to their home countries - and many others are not making the dangerous trip north to work, because the work has vanished.
But we were told by the open-borders bunch that it was unrealistic to even think about them ever going home. And that they love America and wanted to become Americans, and really were just "undocumented Americans."
Critics complain that illegal immigrants are a drain on government expenditures and create a downward spiral in low-skilled wages.
Most credible evidence suggests that isn't so. Millions of them work, pay their payroll taxes, pay local taxes through rents or property taxes, and contribute massively to the economy by spending their money on taxed consumer goods and services.
"Massively?" LOL. They don't make much in the first place, a huge percentage are "off the books," and they send a large percentage of what they do make back to their home countries. Pure propaganda.
Sigh, I remember when a job in home construction was worth having.....before illegal aliens flooded the market with cheap labor and drove down wages.
I guess thats why I never found the “they took our jerbs” joke very funny.....because I’ve seen it happen.
“Some of these illegal workers may have moved into commercial construction.”
These people don’t know what they are talking about.
They started moving into commercial in 89 along with their shack employers and by 92 they were so prevelant that I was put out of business along with other honest employers and their employers.
They are paid cash with no deductions and don’t show up in any stats but get away with it because of greedy builders and developers that will put up with their shoddy work becsuse they are cheaper.
If millions leave because of too few jobs for them, and their unemployment doesn’t show up in official numbers — GREAT!
This year is the perfect time to kick them out and not invite them back!
Personally find it pretty rude that Britons change the spelling on American proper nouns when it doesn’t fit into British English. It LABOR Department, NASA, Center for Disease Control. American media has the courtesy to recognize that the political group of Tony Blair is Labour, and not Labor. Now, it is improbable that they are doing this deliberately to be rude, but that is how it seems.
And you, McKenna, owe it to yourself to keep your opinions to yourself. Stay out of American business, and this is very serious business. canada has been cut up and laid out to dry by immigration and foreign languages. Don’t get in a fight that you cannot possibly win and you are sure to get badly hurt. Nobody here wants or needs your opinion. Globe and Mail is a roosting place for leftists. America is my country, and you mind your own business. Your article is what we call CRAP.
The basic truth is that we don’t know how many are here or where they are. How can you make good public policy without reliable data?
Geez is everybody in Government infected with a stupid virus. This has been discussed here to death. If they want to know what is going on they just need to come to FR. Bunch of office bound morons. Of course the âundocumented Americansâ donât make much of a blip on the radar. The send money home live 10 to a house and buy the lowest cost food available. Stop the transfer of private funds to Mexico and see how fast they leave.This also puts all of the scare stories about the economy is in danger if we don’t make them citizens a bunch of crap.
I thought this was news analysis and then suddenly it’s an editorial, from a Canadian no less. Hey, buddy, keep your Communist opinions to yourself and stay away from economic analysis. You don’t have a clue.
What a pantload!
Just how do these dear sweet little criminals pay local taxes through rents? They live 30 to a house in many areas. In Los Angeles County, it is illegal for a landlord to refuse to rent a 3 bedroom house to someone who is going subrent to 20 or 30 illegals. That’s right 3-4 sets of bunk-beds in each room, share the kitchen and pile all the garbage in the backyard where they also are doing their business because they’ve clogged the plumbing.
It’s “racist” to expect normal family numbers of people. This from the same county that forces all middle school students to take “Islam appreciation” classes!