Natsaddict,
That is quite an impressive list of numbers and sources and will take me hours to digest. Which I may or may not have. An initial glance leads me to believe that it is lots of percents of a percent until finally a seemingly large precent of something is presented. Then it is summed ove 60 years, which it a long time, to come to a seemingly large number, which may essentially just be a drop in the bucket of something.
I'm not completely discrediting what you have typed but the initial report that I analyzed is a primary effect and I come to the conclusion that the negative primary effect of illegals is not that great, even when numbers like 90 billion dollars are thrown around.
All the deficit and inflation stuff are secondary and tertiary effects, which i doubt are as close to as great as the initial tax deficit numbers mentioned, but numbers can be massaged to come out with some pretty big numbers.
Illegals might cost us money, I get that. If they do, it is not that much in the whole grand scheme of things to warrant the amount of attention and passion that it gets. Its just an easy and visible problem to pick on.
The crux of your argument seems to be built on the .6% inflation that is atrributable to them. I doubt that number is able to account for some inflation that they save us by keeping costs down.
There are many more things costing us money, and most of them are legal citzens not contributing to society economically or socially. Whether or not the positives of illegals makes up for the negatives remains to be seen. The negatives of poor legal citizens certainly outweigh the benefits. Which is why I think that keeping people here ILLEGALLY might have some merit.
When you say that 400,000 well paying jobs are going to illegals, I really wonder what the definition of well-paying is. If it really is a well paying job and illegals are doing it for dirt cheap, I certainly wont complain when I dont have to pay as much for whatever labor said person performed for me. There are two sides to everything.
If you are a citzen and have been here for generations and havent been able to advance yourself to a point where you can't be replaced by an uneducated non english speaking illegal alien, I'm sorry, you had your chance, time to see what someone else can do with it.
