Thread: Editorial-Immigration issues too important to ignore

Immigration issues too important to ignore

Hub Opinion | Posted: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 2:00 pm

There has never been a better time to fix the U.S. immigration system than today, and that’s because so much of the nation’s economy rests on the shoulders of undocumented workers.

The shock waves would be enormous without the undocumented laborers who work in so many areas. According to some estimates, these people fill as much as 5 percent of the jobs in the U.S. economy.

Imagine the calamity if, for example, a major share of the employees at packing plants suddenly were deported. How long could the communities in which they live maintain themselves?

Ongoing operations at the packinghouses would certainly be threatened, but what about landlords and retailers who would lose their tenants and customers with a mass deportation?

If such a situation were to occur in south-central Nebraska, it would be difficult to rapidly find replacement workers. Curtailed operations at the packing plants would hurt schools, churches and communities in general, along with the farmers and ranchers who supply the animals for the facilities.

The scenario we described could happen.

How does the United States fix its immigration problem?

First, we should provide a path to citizenship without requiring undocumented workers to leave as punishment for entering illegally. Deporting hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers harms the workers and their families, and it is impractical because it also harms the communities where the people work and live.

The next step in fixing the problem is for the federal government to enforce its immigration laws. That means securing U.S. borders, but it also means setting quotas so our nation admits people with the knowledge and skills our economy needs.

Because our broken system promotes illegal immigration, it produces a flood of people who may or may not be suited to the jobs here. We should develop a system so people with the knowledge and skills needed in the United States have an easier path than they do today.

As it is, many skilled professionals discover that the legal path to U.S. citizenship is so expensive and time-consuming, they give up.

It is time to amend our laws so immigrants can follow a reasonable path to citizenship, just as earlier generations of Americans did.

The United States still is the land of promise.

We still have hundreds of thousands of jobs for people who have little or no opportunity in their homelands to support their families and better their lives. Given the choice, they would much rather be here legally.

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Illegals have contributed to the economic problems we are having by driving down wages and by being a burden to all public services and assistance programs.
One of the biggest problems with medicaid is not seniors, it is illegals.

Imagine the calamity if, for example, a major share of the employees at packing plants suddenly were deported. How long could the communities in which they live maintain themselves?

I sure would like to find out!

In all honesty this whole piece is just the blathering of another OBL'er... in ALL the places where work place raids have occurred THOUSANDS of Americans have lined up to replace the invaders. See HERE:

http://www.cis.org/2006SwiftRaidsArticles

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Imagine the calamity if, for example, a major share of the employees at packing plants suddenly were deported. How long could the communities in which they live maintain themselves?"


How ever did we manage before they came? A mystery? No, just a mini example of bust and boom economies. What were the communities like before they came?/ It is the merchant whose sales increase , while his wage expense decreases who wants them here. They come, thye need food and services. Any analysis shows that these services come out of the pockets of American citizens. We provide the insurance coverage for the merchant's employees, our WIC, welfare , SSA and Medicaid systems allow the employers of the illegal immigrants to save on expenses that they have us pay through our taxes. The $338 billion that it costs us would provide a healthy economy with more people paying into it than taking out of it as the current hiring of illegals does.

Imagine the calamity if, for example, a major share of the employees at packing plants suddenly were deported. How long could the communities in which they live maintain themselves?

Since legal citizens generally do not get deported, who cares what happens to these "communities", since they're largely comprised of illegal invading criminals!

The real question is, what would happen if a packing plant lost a majority of their illegal invading slave labor and were forced to pay American citizens a decent wage to perform the same work!