If there were no illegals of any race or color?
If the Illegals were not here undercuting Federal Minimum Wage requirements would we have a lower unemployment rate?
The jobs had to be done by someone before the illegals came; they were done by minimum wage earning citizens, so don't say our people are too lazy to do them.
Do the Math: depending on whose information you use we have between 12-20 million illegals, and about 15 million unemployed citizens.
It would make sense to me that if they leave, our unemployment numbers will go down drasticaly.
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Yes, the unemployed could fill those jobs. The employers would not be happy for they would have to pay at least minimum wage, but that is their problem. They should not have hired illegals in the first place.
The extra benefit would be a great reduction on our education and health care systems as well. No illegals is a win situation for the US lower and middle classes.
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they are probably counted in those numbers... strange, eh?
I used to live in Wisconsin but now I live in Arizona so if we got rid of all the Illegals it might solve part of the unemployment in AZ, CA, but I doubt it would filter all the way up to WI. Unemployment is nationally spread were immigration is more localized.
You are so right there is NO job an american won't do.
Deport the Illegals and you can't help but create jobs.
Your "question" assumes that all those who are unemployed will work for minimum wage. This is certainly not the case. I seriously doubt a highly skilled worker who is laid off from his/her job is going to go pick beans for minimum wage. please keep in mind that many on the unemployment roles are there only as they transition to another non-minimum wage job.
Mary B is right, although I can't help agreeing with your statement too... I think that the unemployment rate would go down overall if the illegals were gone. There are a small percentage that are just inbetween jobs, or who are technically too overqualified to get certain jobs...
Sure save a lot of money$$ The social service alone.
Actually, macro economically speaking, normal, healthy unemployment levels are 3% to 6%. So actually, if your 4.8% is accurate, the U.S. is right where it should be.
Unemployment can be due to labor mobility (going from one workplace to another), or friction unemployment (taking time to school for a better position). When the same group of people remain unemployed for a long time, then you have structural unemployment. This is dangerous as it often produces feelings of loss of self worth and lack of self confidence, which in turn renders those same people virtually unhirable.
The very nature of the free market encourages unemployment of unskilled and semi-skilled workers. Factories move overseas for cheaper labor, then import their goods at lower prices.
I don't see how illegal immigration can really make that huge a difference in the employment levels. You just don't have illegal CEOs and PhDs taking those positions that are "rightfully" "OURS".
Makes perfect sense to me...would fix a lot of problems in this country, not only unemployment rates, but crime rates would be lower, less gangs, etc...
I do not think getting rid of illegals will have much impact on the unemployment rate. While I can see how this would make sense, we need to remember that
1) not all citizens can work (disabilities)
2) not all citizens want to work (some people are just lazy, some of my cousins that are have been on welfare all of their adult lives)
3) not all citizens want the type of jobs that illegals take.
(I like my engineering job, and I don't want to go work construction, any agriculture job, or work in a factory, instead of what I am doing now.)
I would also respectfully disagree that someone else was doing these doing these jobs before the illegals (The Chinese built our railroads and slaves pick our crops).
I agree that it all makes sense on paper, but I don't think everything can be simplified to a simple math. You must always try to account for the human element.
I do agree that the illegal immigration issue needs to be address and solved, but I also think that we (Americans) and can not and will not pick up the all slack. We (Americans) already work more than our European "friends".
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