Given that illegal-alien households are normally low-income households (three out of five illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children live at or near the poverty line), one would expect that a significant portion of that cost will fall on the government.
Healthmyths,
Illegal aliens, by offering cheap labor to the agricultural, construction and food service industries in places like California, are the lifeblood of the current form of capitalism.
Call it the Walmart labor model which increases profits precisely because it transfers the burden of supporting the working class from wages to the state. (Cha'ching!)
On the model, corporations rely on the state to fill in the gaps created by insufficient wages and benefits.
Big Agriculture (which generously supported Reagan, both Bush's and Clinton) LOVES ultra cheap illegal labor.
And what about Reagan's chief financial advisor (who also happens to be the most influential rightwing economist in the last century) Milton Friedman, who said economic efficiency occurs when there are no territorial or legal boundaries separating capital from all the world's labor markets. This is partly why Reagan passed the largest Amnesty Bill in this nation's history - to break Union control in the southwest by flooding it with cheap labor.
Listen Healthmyths. You are a cut-n-paste Republican who transfers talking points from one place to another. We get it. But there is a talking point you haven't even considered - and it has to do with the value of illegal immigrants to your party's ideological goals.
We already know that illegal aliens provide our free market corporations with cheap labor, which gives them what they most need: higher profits. But there is another value to letting these illegals into the country. It has to do with fear. It allows your party's message machine to tap into the nativism and racial pride of the low-information voter. Like Hitler with the Jews, you can point to illegals (along with the gays/Muslims/ atheists/Hollywood liberals/lame-stream media etc., etc.) and claim that the country has been infected by an external contagion - one that is destroying the very borders, language and culture which defines our nation.
You can scare stupid people into the voting booth where they will unwittingly pull the lever for tax and regulatory policies that only serve the wealthy elite (who owns your politicians and news sources).
Point is: by giving your corporations higher profits ... while at the same time giving your information sources an electoral boogeyman to mobilize the stupid, illegal aliens cover two-birds with one stone.
It's called a two'fer.
(Onward my little cut-n-paste soldier. Onward!)
