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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your concern is to replenish the tax base, then it seems that welcoming masses of minimum-wage people who are likely to require substantial - and costly - public benefits.  A much better solution would be to increase the number of educated, well-paid immigrants whose incomes, spending and attendant tax contributions will inject much more fuel into the economy.

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Bingo.[/quote]

No. We need immigrants in services, agriculture, construction, etc. The reason we have so many undocumented immigrants is because there is a demand for them that the legal immigration system does not meet. These people come here and work harder than anyone and contribute to our economy. The legal immigration system is not working. [/quote]

Is it your contention that there are physically no able-bodied Americans capable of working in services, construction or agriculture? No? Could it be that the demand for them is cut from the same cloth as the demand for Bangladeshi construction workers in Dubai? [/quote]

DP but I would like to see some numbers on this.  What is the number of unemployed Americans look like compared to the # jobs filled by illegals or those on visas?[/quote]

Lots of research on that showing no negative impact:

http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=23550
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/what-are-the-jobs-that-immigrants-do/
https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/2017/9/cato-journal-v37n3-3.pdf
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-immigration-actually-helps-native-born-us-workers-2017-11-04
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-immigration-economy-development/think-immigrants-steal-jobs-think-again-analysts-idUSKBN1FD2CR (global perspective)
https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/immigrant-and-native-workers-compete-different-low-skilled-jobs
https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/in-america-immigrants-really-do-get-the-job-done (focus on highly-skilled)
https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/el2010-26.pdf

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Too many links. The point is, could those jobs we supposedly so desperately need illegal immigrants for be filled by unemployed Americans if the incentives were right?  What’s the number of unemployed Americans compared with illegals?[/quote]

"too many links." you're truly pitiful.  [/quote]

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