According to your link, some jobs in agriculture were not filled by Americans but jobs in construction and other industries were filled by Americans and wages did rise after Arizona got rid of illegal immigrants. It is inhumane and bizarre to advocate illegal immigration so that agricultural companies don't have to pay wages high enough to find Americans who will take those jobs. Keep in mind that slavery was once justified because without it cotton grown in the US would not be competitive in price with cotton grown in Egypt.
You might want to notice that in 2006, Hillary said Mexico should take care of its own problems and stop dumping its poor on the US.
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Yes and the GDP fell, meaning production and consuming went down. Hurting business. The point is you or I can't prove what the effect of illegal immigration is. Either way if I don't know something I try to Err on the side of human decency.
U.S. Farmers Risk Losing Everything Because Of Absurd Immigration Rule
Of course we both know the impact of illegal immigration and your argument has been it is good for business and you couldn't care less about the harm it does to poor Americans. It is precisely this casual indifference to the problems of poor Americans, especially poor black Americans, that has led both The Nation and the Huffignton Post to declare Hillary doesn't deserve the votes of black Americans.
How Can Black People Trust Hillary Clinton After the 2008 Campaign?
Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote
Firstly in this OP I sited a few times that I don't know what the general impact of illegal immigration, on economics is. Like most things macro-economically, there are advantages and disadvantages. I also want to remind you, that the premise of this post is not illegal immigration, but Trumps inability to stick with like I said cornerstone of his platform. Saying that I don't care what harm it does to poor Americans is false, since neither you or me can tell me, if there even is harm. A store being able to sell more goods because there are a few hundred thousand consumers extra, needs to hire more people, jobs that will go to poor Americans being an example. On the other hand I wouldn't be able to begin to tell you if that's offset by the fact that there might be some poor American that wouldn't mind picking fruit for a season. But the point is neither can you.
The link to the WSJ article you posted specified that gain were made in construction and other industries once the illegal immigrants were gone.
And while
' "Legal workers picked up less than 10 percent of the jobs formerly held by illegal immigrants, according to economists from the Public Policy Institute of California and the University of California at Berkeley. The good news: Median income of “low-skilled whites” who were employed rose 6 percent since 2008.
But there were positives reported after tougher immigration and E-Verify employment laws led to undocumented workers leaving the state.
Wages rose for farm workers (15 percent) and construction workers (10 percent) as Arizona’s economy made a comeback, reports to Bureau of Labor Statistics.'
Arizona economy impacted by exodus of illegal immigrants
Clearly poor Americans did benefit from getting rid of the illegal immigrants, and the slight decline in Arizona's GDP, which corresponded roughly to the worse years of the recent recession, over and Arizona's GDP continues to grow.
Total Gross Domestic Product for Arizona
There clearly is no downside to the American economy to deporting illegal immigrants and just as clearly, as the experience in Arizona shows, poor Americans benefit from it. Before Bill Clinton became president in 1992, the Democratic Party was always concerned with the problems of poor Americans, but since then the Party has shown only indifference to the problems of the poor.
