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[quote=Anonymous]Is OP that disconnected that they can’t imagine any negatives to illegal immigration?

First they definitely depress wages. Maybe not for OP but for low skilled labor. Keeps your restaurant bill low because the wages of the back room staff is lower then if they had to compete for a more limited supply of citizen labor. Great for OP, not so great for the local restaurant labor force. Democrats used to be very much against mass immigration (union proud) then they flipped from their working class roots.

How about housing? Maybe not in OP’s neighborhood but in someone else’s. And not just price but also quality as the neighborhood gets more crowded. Schools are underfunded because illegal immigrants don’t bring in enough taxes plus their kids require additional ESL services which have a cost. OP, imagine a scenario where each house in your single family home neighborhood magically added an illegal family. Does your quality of life decline? Will the school budget get stressed? How about local infrastructure, traffic, sewers…and who pays? This actually happens in some lower income neighborhoods and it effects them.
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