Here are what I see as the HARMS of Immigration (in America). Feel free to dispute, debate, confirm, or whatever on any one or combination of these. This should be a good, rousing debate (but please try to stay on topic)
Harms of Immigration
1. Americans lose jobs. (especially Whites due to affirmative action).
Immigrants generally take lower-paying jobs that many natural-born citizens won't touch. Others are better qualified for specialty jobs.
I had to stop reading your post at this point because your response was so outrageously wrong.
"Immigrants generally take lower-paying jobs that many natural-born citizens won't touch."
Do they really? Or do they simply take jobs that natural-born citizens
can't touch, because employers want to exploit the people least likely to be familiar with federal, state, and local labor laws? I live in an area of the U.S. with a low immigrant population, and an above average black population. Most of our garbage collectors are white. Nearly all of our farmers are white. Almost all of our construction workers are black or white. Almost all of our fast food workers, cashiers, waitresses, and delivery guys are either black or white, depending upon what part of town you're in. These trends continue on through every profession, from teachers to policemen to lawyers to doctors. Our immigrant population is dispersed evenly throughout various jobs; you're just as likely to have your order taken at a restaurant by an immigrant as you are to be issued a loan at the bank by one. I have a hard time believing that my area is the only one in the entire country where natural-born Americans aren't above working at McDonald's or Walmart, collecting trash, or taking any of the other low-paying jobs you think we "won't touch."
"Others are better qualified for specialty jobs."
Bull SHIT. Read this:
America Has More Trained STEM Graduates than STEM Job Openings | Center for Immigration Studies
But because I know very few people here will actually read all of it, I'll summarize: Over the next decade, there will be 1.4 million more people graduating with a STEM degree (i.e., a degree in a field relating to Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) than there will be STEM jobs available. Despite this, you want to pile on even more applicants for an already limited number of jobs? The only reason this nonsense about "We NEED immigrants because Americans are stupid and don't understand science/technology/etc.!" is pervasive is because employers want a higher pool of employees to choose from so they can drive down wages in those fields.
America has one of the largest populations in the world. We don't need more workers to do
smart people jobs, and we don't need more wage slaves doing lower-paying jobs that natural-born Americans allegedly "won't touch."