Cato Institute: Immigrants Are a Net Positive

[Correll]

Workers with no criminal records?

Business owners?

Families

Yes. We need their labor

Our economy would be fucked without them

Deport them all.

 

[rightwinger]

Said the man that wants to let them stay.

If they work and stay out of trouble, I don’t have a problem

Paperwork issue

 

[Correll]

If they work and stay out of trouble, I don’t have a problem

Paperwork issue

So, when you say Tresspassing, you don't really mean it.

To you, this is "Stolen land" and no one is illegal.

 

[Eman623]

If they work and stay out of trouble, I don’t have a problem

Paperwork issue

Deport them and bring in someone who is going through the legal process.

 

[Lockback]

See post 553

Not everybody who disagrees with me.
But a whole lot of 'em. Because even if you're not a card-carrying Marxist, you're helping them reach their goals with your stands on issues.
They thank you.

 

[Lesh]

Not everybody who disagrees with me.
But a whole lot of 'em. Because even if you're not a card-carrying Marxist, you're helping them reach their goals with your stands on issues.
They thank you.

You’re not an anti-communist

You’re just a crazy MAGANUT

 

[dblack]

Call me a "fascist" to my face, pal ... just make sure you've got a plastic surgeon on speed dial.

Lol ... Oooooh!

Nothing is changing my mind, pal.

Like a steel trap.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Trump declared it a hoax
Guess that proves it

You should live your entire existence as if it were true.

Let me know when you've saved the world.

 

[Robert W]

Trump declared it a hoax
Guess that proves it

I trust science
So long as it is the premier climate scientist like the man in the video.

 

[Robert W]

Scapegoating immigrants is a classic fascist trope. I know you won't admit it - but that's what's going on. The wetbacks are the "dragons at the gate", the boogeyman that our leaders invoke when they want to get people fired up. Keeps us from looking behind the curtain.

Obama must have scape goated them then.

 

[protectionist]

Illegals have a violent crime rate half the rate of US citizens.

Illegals have a property crime rate one quarter the rate of US citizens.

You have more to fear from your neighbor Biff than the little brown man in your seeded nightmares.

FALSE! Illegal aliens are 100% criminal, with just US Code 8 Section 1325 alone, without even considering what else they do. (which is a lot of criminal stuff)

 

[protectionist]

To the tune of over 4.6 trillion dollars

With illegals net positive 1.7 trillion

And both the legal and illegal commit crimes at a far lower rate than citizens

Cato is NOT. “Far left” org

They are a conservative think tank

Want To Reduce The Debt And Lower The Crime Rate? Bring In Even More Immigrants.

Contrary to Trump's claims, immigrants, even illegal ones, use fewer services and commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans, according to Cato Institute studies.

www.huffpost.com

HARMS of Illegal Immigration
1. Americans lose jobs. (especially Whites due to affirmative action).
2. Wage reduction.
3. Tax $$$ Lost (due to off books work + lower wages paid).
4. Remittance $$$ lost. ($200+ Billion/year).
5. Tax $$ lost to immigrants on welfare.
6. Increased crime.
7. Increased traffic congestion.
8. Increased pollution.
9. Overcrowding in hospital ERs.
10. Overcrowding in recreational facilities.
11. Overcrowding in government offices.
12. Overcrowding in schools.
13. Decrease in funds (per capita) available for entitlements.
14. Cultural erosion.
15. Overuse of scarce resources (oil, gasoline, fresh water, jobs, electricity, food, etc) Less resources per capita.
16. Introduction of foreign diseases
17. Influx of terrorists.
18. Wildfires
19. Litter
20. Housing congestion (loss of available housing)
21. Massive housing inflation (200%) from market saturation

 

[protectionist]

Yes, that's because it's supported by empirical evidence collected by scientists the planet over.

In contrast to the empirical evidence in Post # 572, collected by Billions of people the planet over.

 

[protectionist]

About 40 percent of our Ph.D. scientists and engineers were born in another country, Orrenius writes. People tend to focus on illegal or low-skilled immigration when discussing immigrants and often do not recognize the tremendous contribution of high-skilled immigrants.​

Dallas Federal Reserve


A new study, released last week, throws new information into the debate over foreign workers who arrive in the U.S. on such specialty visas.

The report, based on telephone surveys with 2,054 companies and projections by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and Duke University, says about 25 percent of the technology and engineering companies launched in the U.S. in the past decade had at least one foreign-born founder.

Immigrants Become Founding Fathers


These immigrant founders tended to be highly educated - 96 percent held bachelor's degrees and 74 percent held graduate or postgraduate degrees, with 75 percent of these degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related fields. The vast majority of these company founders didn't come to the United States as entrepreneurs 52 percent came to study, 40 percent came to work, and 5.5 percent came for family reasons. Only 1.6 percent came to start companies in America.

Even though these founders immigrated for other purposes initially, they typically started their companies just 13.25 years after arriving in the United States. And, rather than settling in well-established immigrant gateways, such as New York or Los Angeles, they moved to a diverse group of tech centers across the country and helped fuel their growth.

http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/WadhwaTBook09.pdf
While 23 percent of the nation's cooks and 20 percent of its janitors were immigrants in 2000, 27 percent of new computer-software engineers were also immigrants, according to a recent Migration Policy Institute study.

Indeed, the more technically educated the group, the more likely immigrants are to be overrepresented in it. While the foreign born make up 15 percent of the overall workforce, according to the 2000 census, they constitute approximately 17 percent of those with a bachelor's degree in science and engineering occupations, 29 percent of those with a master's degree, and 39 percent of those with a doctoral degree.


As US nears milestone, a rising mix of immigrants - CSMonitor.com

Very few people, very few conservatives, including Preasident Trump have any qualm with legal immigrants bringing skills (if/when those skills are needed). Little gripe with legal immigrants bringing money to create jobs (for AMERICANS).

These however are a tiny fraction of all the immigrants having come into the country, especially during the Biden admin.

 

[dblack]

Obama must have scape goated them then.

Maybe. Why are you so fixated on Obama?

Nevermind... I know what you're doing. You can't defend Trump's insanity, so you attack Obama. I can't care. I'm not a Democrat. But D and R is all you can see.

 

[Robert W]

Maybe. Why are you so fixated on Obama?

Nevermind... I know what you're doing. You can't defend Trump's insanity, so you attack Obama. I can't care. I'm not a Democrat. But D and R is all you can see.

ICE has long deported illegals and yes Democrats have as well.

 

[Correll]

Maybe. Why are you so fixated on Obama?

Nevermind... I know what you're doing. You can't defend Trump's insanity, so you attack Obama. I can't care. I'm not a Democrat. But D and R is all you can see.

Trump is not scapegoating illegals.

One can legitimately complain about the impact of a massive wave of immigration.

 

[Robert W]

Maybe. Why are you so fixated on Obama?

Nevermind... I know what you're doing. You can't defend Trump's insanity, so you attack Obama. I can't care. I'm not a Democrat. But D and R is all you can see.

Why then did it infuriate you for Obama to be exposed?

 

[Robert W]

You idiots just can’t seem to figure out of Obama/Biden deported too many illegals or not enough

I don't know about your idiots but know a bit more about those here on this forum.
Are you really happy that Obama kicked out of the USA a record number of illegal aliens and he touted he had done it?

 

[dblack]

ICE has long deported illegals and yes Democrats have as well.

Mkay