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How will increased immigration affect the American economy?

Is immigration a hopeful sign? Is it a danger to the economy? How do most people seem to perceive the effect of increased immigration?

Public Comments

1. I think that sooner or later it will lead to the collapse of our economy. I want to know what is going to happen when all of the illegals reach retirement age and hold out their hands for social security benefits.
2. I am not anti-immigration, but I don't think it will affect the economy in a positive way.
3. It is a good thing. They are doing the work that americans dont want to do for half of what the americans would charge to do it if they wanted to. So I welcome them!
4. It can be both a good thing and/or a threat to the economy, Good-It will improve relations with the countries that the U.S. exports to, that will make more money for the economy. Bad-There will be no work shortage and many might not have jobs, hence putting them on governement plans, thus costing taxes.
5. "Business interests however are short-term. Easy immediate access to labour will always be preferred to the costs of training and capital investment for the longer term. In the nature of economic cycles, yesterday’s essential labour can often become, as the defunct factories and mills of Europe have shown, today’s unemployed. Employers who demanded immigrant labour are not held to account for this or required to contribute to subsequent costs of their unemployed former workers. Few things are more permanent that temporary worker from a poor country. If business were made responsible for the lifetime costs of their migrant labour in the same way as they must now deal with the lifetime environmental costs of their products, perhaps enthusiasm for labour migration might be moderated and make way for longer-term investment in capital-intensive restructuring." Open borders proponents promote the economic benefits of illegal aliens (exploitation of underclass) to the US economy but research shows huge costs to taxpayers.
6. Republicans' only concern about immigration is keeping America white and speaking English. It's cheap labor - what could a free-market capitalist love more?
7. It depends on who you let in. Educated and skilled immigrants in numbers that do not drive down employment for natives greatly contribute to the country. Poor immigrants, particularly those who are not educated, will never make enough money to pay taxes large enough to cover their children's educations and the other services poor families here use. They are a net loss. I think that unless we get rid of all of those illegally here, we can't take 'increased' or even 'as many' poor immigrants going forward. Schools are failing and emergency rooms are closing in areas where illegals concentrate, already. However, the first category is different. Also, streamlining the H2 visa, which is seasonal and requires the employer to provide housing, and does not allow family to be brought in, would give agriculture as much as they need, if not as much as they greediliy want, for their seasonal work problem.
8. More taxpayers... with votes and disposable incomes.
9. The problem with illegal immigration is that the illegals take local resources in the way of medicaid, they tax our school systems and do not support the tax base. Then they send money home, so the money does not trickle back into the local economy, it is estimated that last year 80 billion was sent to Mexico out of California alone. So you add this to the billions being consumed out of the resources of local governments and there is your problem in a nutshell. I am not saying bad or good just facts. I think they are good people and hard workers, and something needs to change, i sure don't have the answers.
10. It has nothing to do with perception. Fact: some border hospitals are near backruptcy. Prisons are full of illegals costing millions. Their entiltlement burden is enormous.
11. More and more low class people feeding off the welfare system. It will widen the gap between the rich and poor making it harder for the middle class to survive. It is a great danger to the economy because they do not have the means to help the economy. The money and services they do are often low income and most of it is shipped out of the country which doesn't benefit the economy at all.
12. Reality is immigrants are needed for the jobs others do no want to accept, a lack of them has caused many smaller companies dependent upon them to fold. At least they are willing to work contribute to the economy and are not on welfare using up our hard earned tax dollars..people need a chance.The USA was built on immigrants,and will continue to need them to stimulate our economy..
13. we are destined to lose if you see what they came from and how they refuse to assimilate here. we lost alot with this influx. the wall is too late. sending them back still makes sense to alot of people.
14. Before , I get into my history, the Mexicans who live in Texas who came to the usa, paid attorney's to legally process them , etc are really angry that anyone would even consider allowing illegals to come in without paying like they did. I know many families that are furious - but their side is NEVER heard on television...in Houston or san antonio. You only see those demanding that tax payers including those legal immigrants open their wallets and start handing out the money.... I just left texas after living their my whole life. I was in the logistics industry for 20 years and worked on the texas mexico border. I had the opportunity to see what the camera does not let you see. I will leave it at that. 7 hospitals in the south texas region have been closed because the portion of the budget that allowed for indigent care exceeded the level of income that traditional insurance, medicare and medicaid paid, HMOS, local government funding and private donations paid for. One of the problems that the onstaff infectious disease doctors claim existed was that for TB alone, there were too many untreatable strains and long with other autoimmune problems that immigrants from central and latin america brought in. My property taxes in the fine state of texas increased 68 percent over a 6 year period. I talked to an accountant (a legal kuwaiti) and he said that texas alone increased entitlements for the Gold Card health care for illegals and their ENTIRE family, funding for day care was giving and NOT EvEN QUALIFIED in fear of hispanic leaders using the race card...keep in mind this is a kuwait who is laughing at me telling me that this is absurd) Since 2001 , i have been in 3 accidents in Houston texas. 1 was my fault and i paid for it...the other two , I was run into by illegans with no license and no insurance that was not my fault and I paid for it. The driver in the last accident was drunk and releasd at the scene of the accident. My neighbor was hit on his motorcycle by a drunk mexican national who we later found out was a fugiive and our friend was killed....the national drug him almost 100 yards before he figured out that he had hit something.... legal immigration is beneficial if it is managed And if the new citizens are contributing a just amount of revenue into the system. Legal immigration is even better if those immigrating have values that match with us here. This is the way that I perceive immigration is being handled... illegals are demanding rights , health care , education and entitlements....before they have even become citizens....what they are doing is inviting themselves into my home and demanding that i take care of them.....so what they are doing is stealing from me...and in the process can decide to kill me... This is not what I perceive this the reality of what is going on in one small area of the united states.
15. immigration is fine if someone does what they need to do to be here legally i applaud them ........illegal immigration however is a total drain on our society .......illegal immigrants rape the welfare system......which they paid no taxes to establish......as for doing jobs no one else wants to do we have plenty of fine individuals in the prison system for these jobs .......we need to go back to having chain gangs......and start denying anyone who is not here legally to draw welfare medicaid and food stamps.......as it stands none of us will have social security when we get old because its already been spent supporting illegal immigrants.
16. Anyone who works for a lower wage than everyone else is a danger to the economy. This increases the space between low class and middle class workers. And makes the lower class lower. Is this what we want?