re: Gen contractor says the constr. economy is going to tank because his workers got deported

Lmao
Have you seen the newest crop of Americans that would be in the age range for beginning a trade??

Just as a quick reset for the conversation, let’s add some math to this debate as I am beginning to sense entirely too much sympathy in this thread for illegal immigrants.

fairus.org: The Financial Burden of Illegal Immigration

since I doubt most of you will take the time to open the link, I’ll borrow the figures fairus.org uses to summarize:

Total Government Expenditures on Illegal Aliens:

Total Federal Expenditures: $66,449,136,000
+ Total State Expenditures: $115,608,730,000
= $182,057,865,000

Total Tax Contributions from Illegal Aliens:
Total Federal Taxes Paid: $16,219,495,000
+ Total State Taxes Paid: $15,172,140,000
= $31,391,635,000

So, Total Tax Burden of Illegal Aliens:
$182,057,865, 000 total expenditures on illegal aliens
- $31,391,635,000 total tax contributions from illegal aliens
= $150,666,230,000

$150 billion dollars in 2023.

Now, explain to me how illegal immigrants are a net positive for our economy. What do they contribute that offsets $150 billion?

And that’s 2023. We let in another 3-5 million illegal aliens in 2024. This problem will only continue to snowball. And that’s just the economics. Seriously, consider what you are saddling the next generations of Americans with; by just throwing your hands up, and saying, “our blueberry prices and sheetrock installation are gonna skyrocket”.

Not to mention the impact on our medical industry, impact on housing availability, impact on public schools, etc. Not to mention the vast vast majority of these people despise us, our culture, and our history. They have no intention to integrate into our society. They only want to take and stick their hands out for tax payer funded assistance.

It’s a lazy and ignorant argument proving you either have an ulterior motive to support illegal immigration or you’re a brainwashed sheep. It’s anti-American.

Work visas are not difficult to get.

Tough shite.

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So are others going to line up to do the work? Good they are getting illegals out, but are the ones working the high hanging fruit? You don’t see Americans lining up to do physical work.

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So here’s how this worked for hundreds of years. In early adulthood you went to work for someone and they taught you a trade. Somewhere around your late 30s early 40s you broke off on your own and started working for yourself while training the next generation.

But somewhere along the way we stopped doing that training part because we found it would be cheaper to hire cheap arse labor with a language barrier.

So how about we just go back to what worked for thousands of years.

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Sure. Find people who do this work who will show up for work daily and can pass a drug test

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I've tried to explain this to folks who I thought have common sense.

They have no idea that you just can't easily find folks to work hard in the heat, no matter how much you pay them.

Exactly.

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Your an idiot. If youve ever worled or owned a construction business

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We just need more HattiesburgTiger5439s, and we’d have all the blue-collar manual labor this country needs

frick, son. Your English is shite.

CSB

but that’s still not great enough justification to willingly allow illegal aliens through our borders.