For those illegal immigration hurts America deniers:If you have the most basic understanding of supply and demand economics, then you understand that if you increase the supply of something, the cost, and the demand decrease. The same principle can be applied to immigration. Immigration is like trade, Immigration simply allows production to be done domestically.Even the New York Times recently conceded this fact when they published video essays by Kahn Academy which explains that immigration and globalization are the main drivers behind the decreasing wages, and the massive gap between wages and the GDP, which coincidentally started to occur around 1965.According to economists like Edward Lazear, Paul Collier, and George J Borjas, mass immigration of low-skilled workers has been a major drain on the American worker. In his estimate of the immigration surplus, Borjas finds that the total surplus is around $50 billion dollars.This number is negligible in America’s multi-trillion-dollar economy, but the good news ends there. Borjas concluded that the majority of the benefit went to the immigrant workers themselves, and the native firms who push to bring them in, in order to drive down the cost of labor in the first place.The $50 billion-dollar surplus though is completely wiped away when you control for the welfare benefits most immigrants receive, as well as their public education. In terms of economics, mass immigration statistically has been a net negative on the American people.The demographic that makes up most of our immigrant population use more government services than the amount of taxes they pay into the system, and more than half of all immigrants are on some form of welfare for decades.Start throwing in public education, public transportation, ESL, cash and non-cash welfare, the criminal justice system, and other public services, and we arrive at the controversial deficit the media refuses to talk about. – DailyVeracity
For those illegal immigration hurts America deniers:If you have the most basic understanding of supply and demand economics, then you understand that if you increase the supply of something, the cost, and the demand decrease. The same principle can be applied to immigration. Immigration is like trade, Immigration simply allows production to be done domestically.Even the New York Times recently conceded this fact when they published video essays by Kahn Academy which explains that immigration and globalization are the main drivers behind the decreasing wages, and the massive gap between wages and the GDP, which coincidentally started to occur around 1965.According to economists like Edward Lazear, Paul Collier, and George J Borjas, mass immigration of low-skilled workers has been a major drain on the American worker. In his estimate of the immigration surplus, Borjas finds that the total surplus is around $50 billion dollars.This number is negligible in America’s multi-trillion-dollar economy, but the good news ends there. Borjas concluded that the majority of the benefit went to the immigrant workers themselves, and the native firms who push to bring them in, in order to drive down the cost of labor in the first place.The $50 billion-dollar surplus though is completely wiped away when you control for the welfare benefits most immigrants receive, as well as their public education. In terms of economics, mass immigration statistically has been a net negative on the American people.The demographic that makes up most of our immigrant population use more government services than the amount of taxes they pay into the system, and more than half of all immigrants are on some form of welfare for decades.Start throwing in public education, public transportation, ESL, cash and non-cash welfare, the criminal justice system, and other public services, and we arrive at the controversial deficit the media refuses to talk about. – DailyVeracity