what are some economic involvements that illegal mexican immigrants do?
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Well, let's see.  They work productively for pay.  They buy stuff.  They pay rent.  They pay taxes.  \n\nWait, you say, they don't pay taxes, right?  Well, they pay every bit of sales tax that you or I do, regardless.  But in many cases, they also end up paying income tax, often more than we do.  Withholding catches them, and they can't file to get the tax refunds that are often due them, so they end up leaving it in the government coffers.\n\nThe only things they can't do effectively is buy homes and build businesses.  This is why we need to find a way to make them legal.  I don't suggest amnesty...it will just encourage more illegal behavior in the future.  You can't reward people for breaking the law.  But the simplistic idea of just sending them all home is not only impractical logistically, but harmful economically.\n\nIt is important that we find a way to increase LEGAL immigration to replace the illegals we send back.  It's not like we have a massive job shortage in this country.  If we don't have people willing to work, lots of businesses will not be able to function competitively, and THEN we'll see a weaker economy.
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The Illegal Immigrants.
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These are just simple truths, that for whatever reason pro-open border believers refuse to see the degradation of the "American" way of life.  \n\nProperty values are lower in predominantly Mexican / Hispanic neighborhoods. \n\nEven though it may be true that Mexicans are here to make money, they DO NOT contribute to the economy.  Much of the money made is sent back to families in Mexico.  I believe money remittance back to Mexico is a huge (if not "the) part of the Mexican economy.\n\nMexicans / Hispanics prefer their country's heritage at the expense of integration into an American one.  Two easy examples, the unbelievable amount of Mexican Flags that have been waiving at rally's all across the southern border states, and the FACT that many, yes many Hispanics refuse to learn English.\n\nEven if you allow for some sort of amnesty for the "illegal" immigrants already in the U.S., a secure border would help minimize the vast amounts of drugs coming in through Mexico.  This would seem to be indisputable, but somehow the pro open border folks don't see it.\n\nLook, Americans are a very generous people.  It's not that we hate Mexicans, or want them to starve, or through them back to the wolves.  What we DO want is a prosperous Mexico free from corrupt Government and a growing middle and upper middle class.  Where the peso is actually worth something, and more people have more of it.  Don't you realize that by giving amnesty to whoever wants to come over here HURTS their cousins, mothers, brothers, sisters, aunts, and grandparents back home.  Why don't the Mexicans that come over plead with the politicians here to help them clean up Mexico.  Yes, even if we had to put military preasure on them.  V. Fox is a horrible president, and does little to help his people.  In fact, he works against them, as do most officials in Mexico.\n\nPlease understand, it's NOT a racial thing, it's a matter of fact thing.
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Illegal immigrants make up a huge chunk of the base of the work force, pay taxes (both on their pay and in sales taxes, etc), keep money moving around the system just like anyone who lives here (by buying groceries, gas, clothes, etc), and actually receive less in social services than legal immigrants because they're not able to get many social services without paperwork (despite what certain right-wing lies you might hear).
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Mexican foreign nationals who work in this country ARE paying for Social Security and other "taxes".  The American employers who criminally invite and hire undocumented foreign nationals withhold those taxes and Social Security from their pay and keep it for themselves.
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Easy... can be summed up in two reasons\n\n #1.) Illegals form a significant flow of money to the Mexican economy (or politicans' pockets, same thing). \nThis is the thing that should dispel those lies that illegals are good for the USA, because if it were a good thing those illegals would at least keep all the money in the USA, but instead all those dollars are sent to Mexico.\n\n#2.) The more poor and dissatisfied that remain in Mexico, the more likely revolution or reform will take place as they eventually realize that they need to wake up and that their easy ticket is not easy anymore.\nI do not need to tell you that this would be bad for the current crop of corrupt imbeciles running Mexico.
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Cause: Mexican government corruption keeping people poor while they live like fat cats, Mexicans see opportunity for better wage and ability to support families, Big money corporations exploiting people on both sides,  Federal government lax in enforcing immigration and customs laws,\n \nEffect: driving down wages and creating a larger separation between rich and poor. Racism and fear on the rise, lack of faith in the government, despair, poverty, hunger and resentment.
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Ludicrous idea.  Next thing you know these politicians will label these folks as "livelihood-terrorists".  What harm exactly are these immigrants causing?  If anything, they're keeping the economy rolling right along.
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The argument that they are "strain on the economy" is completely bogus. USA does NOT provide social services for illegal immigrants -- in fact, social services even for American citizens are very skimpy compared to other developed nations (e.g. Canada or Europe). People are loud about this, but it's hard to point to concrete economic benefits of NOT having illegal immigrants in the USA. \n\nIllegal immigrants generally work here, and mostly in jobs that Americans refuse at a low wage level (e.g. picking vegetables for 10 hrs a day in California sun). Kick them out and, among other things, you'll quickly see the price of veggies rise dramatically your local Safeway rise dramatically -- that much for the "drag on the economy" argument.\n\nAlso, imagine for a moment how much it would COST to deport all illegals -- I'm sure it'll work out to several hundred dollars per capita (hidden in the lump sum of your taxes, of course) -- would you be ready to pay, say $300 for this?\n\nU.S. policy on immigration is highly hypocritical -- illegals are pretty much encouraged to come in, in the interest of business community, and then treated as a subhuman species once in the country. \n\nWhat the U.S. needs is a reform of LEGAL immigration -- yes, tighten the borders, but also if we NEED some classes of labor, give temporary worker visas for people WE need to do it. \n\nIf there was no need for these jobs in the U.S. in the first place, nobody would come here. Most immigrants don't come here out of love of our freedom, high moral values and state subsidies but for economic opportunity.\n\nThe illegals that are already in the country are difficult to handle -- but the situation is American government's fault. People, predictably, pursue their happiness, and illegal immigrants are in no way less human or deserving of compassion than American citizens. \n\nIllegals should be given some status and recognition, if only to make it easier for the government to handle them. Giving them full legal status might not be fair to people who came here legally, but any solution is bound to be a compromise anyway. \n\nThe question of "deport or legalize people currently here" does not make much sense in isolation -- both actions are futile, if they are not a part of a more sweeping immigration reform, the one recognizing existing economic pressures and incentives for both U.S. businesses and potential immigrants.
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Because mexico makes cheap things and American's like to buy cheap things.  So we buy things from mexico (import) that we can't afford (collectively, not individually) and we export very little to them.  Thus we end up owing them money.  They don't subtract out all the money which we pay the illegal immigrants who send that money back home....perhaps they should.
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Not counting the voluntary payment of income taxes, there are the following:\n\n1. Provide huge amounts of labor to the economic engine.\n2. Buy food, clothes, other stuff.\n3. Pay sales taxes.\n4. Pay payroll taxes through false SS numbers, for which they don't claim tax refunds or benefits.\n5. Provide children educated here who thus later become a source of educated, skilled American labor in an age of foreign  outsourcing.
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The boycott was organized so that people who claim that we do not contribute to the economy can be proven wrong. Also, to understand the immigration debate you must do some research. Find out why people are risking their lives to come to a land where they will be exploited. Think about what it would take for you to do the same thing, and realize that whatever your answer is, that is what they are going through. Research NAFTA, CAFTA, and FTAA, and you will find out why people are coming to this country. And when people start a revolution to change their situation at home, what happens? Research Salvador Allende, his ouster, and the Pinochet Regime. The complaints that some Americans have, i.e. foreigners coming into our country..., well we have been complaining about these things for decades. I guess you can blame this immigration problem on karma.\n\nAnswer for RAM- Good point, but what if your cousin had to move into your house because your burnt his house down, or you got him kicked out of his house. Most immigrants are here because of the U.S. foreign policies that they have signed with corrupt governments.
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Mexican illegals are almost in mayority poor people without education. People like these are always being taken advantage of by U.S. business owners getting the low paying jobs no american would accept, and by the Mexican goverment allowing them to travel in most cases risking their lives to the U.S. so that they earn some dollars and send them to their families. And sooner or later, directly or inderectly, mexican polititians get the money. Now that few dollars multiplied by millions of mexican workers becomes Mexico politiians´third largest income. \nThe illigal immigration is wrong, but it has been this way everywhere ever since there are borders; all rich countries have a poor neighbor, and they allways permit a number of "illegal immigrants" to cover all the unwanted jobs but when the immigrants become too many, then it becomes a problem. There is a price to pay if one wants a cheep labour force and the U.S. is paying it. White americans have not learned from the past, when they bought africans to be their cheap labour force once, and now they have had to learn to live with african americans, and that was the price. This time they permitted the Mexicans for cheap labour and now they they will have to learn to live with a large number of latin american immigrants. Now, remember that americans were illigal immigrants in the northern part of Mexico but with the help of a corrupt Mexican president payed a small sum, managed to keep all that territory that became California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. How much has the U.S. really gained from those states that were once Mexico??? Did Mexico not lose??\nNow, that is the way it is, and borders are the way they are,  but at least some U.S. citizens should not be so cruel when they talk about "illegal immigrants". These are just poor desperate people trying to survive economicaly since they have no posibility in their "pueblitos". A "funny" thing is that the cruelest comments I´ve read seem to be from descendants of poor immigrants.
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I lived in Mexico for 12 years.\n\nTheir number one reason for the economic problems has been their political system, and the past presidents robbing their own people.
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Being illegal gives the police and the whole judicial system a chance to rake in millions more dollars off of incarcerations, etc... bail bonds... paying judges.. paying lawyers, paying police, etc.
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There're not a bargin for the American taxpayers.Illegal alien workers may increase profits for employers, but they are costly to the American taxpayer. Most illegal aliens have low educational attainment, few skills, and they work for low wages, often in the underground economy where they pay no taxes on their earnings. Since about three million illegal aliens gained legal status in the amnesty of 1986, the flow of illegal immigration has increased, and today that population is estimated at 9-11 million illegal alien residents in the country. The former Immigration and Naturalization Service estimated that the illegal alien population was increasing by about half a million aliens per year in 2000. \n\n\nBecause the number of illegal aliens can only be estimated, similarly the fiscal cost (government budget outlays) for those aliens can only be estimated. Dr. Donald Huddle, a Rice University economics professor, published a systematic analysis of those costs as of 1996. The study also estimated the tax payments of those same aliens. \n\nAt that time, the illegal alien population was estimated to be about five million persons. The estimated fiscal cost of those illegal aliens to the federal, state and local governments was about $33 billion. This impact was partially offset by an estimated $12.6 billion in taxes paid to the federal, state and local governments, resulting in a net cost to the American taxpayer of about $20 billion every year. This estimate did not include indirect costs that result from unemployment payments to Americans who lost their jobs to illegal aliens willing to work for lower wages. Nor did it include lost tax collections from those American workers who became unemployed. The study estimated those indirect costs from illegal immigration at an additional $4.3 billion annually. \n\nStill think we're getting a bargin?
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Seeing as how there's only two countries involved in this, the answer could either be the U.S. or nobody.\n\nIf every undocumented Mexican were granted citizenship, they would pay taxes for the money they made, instead of how right now only about 35% pay income tax, so you decide for yourself.\n\nIf you actually knew anything about economics, you'd see that if Mexico's economy was stable, its business partners would benefit (i.e. the United States). \n\nIf you're going to ask about who's responsibility it is to do things in the world, why don't you point your questions at the Middle East? Is it really the United States' responsibility to save the Iraqis from Saddam Hussein? Are our tax dollars meant for our government to democratize another? That's not what they were originally meant to do, but the money we spend will help out Iraqis (I know people who live there). Our tax dollars were not originally meant to help Mexico out, but the money we would spend would help out Mexico.