Do Undocumented immigrants help or hurt the U.S. economy?
Illegal aliens hurt the U.S. economy, they are net consumers of assets, not net producers (between causing lower wages for all unskilled/semi-skilled labor, remittances, use of taxpayer funded social services meant for legal resident/citizen poor, driving with no licenses/insurance, ignoring local housing ordinances, etc).
Hurt. Undocumented workers (and outsourcing) allow high level executives in all fields to artificially increase their paychecks. Instead of making a better quality product, increasing efficiency, or using better marketing, they simply employ people who will work for less than their work is worth. This takes jobs from American citizens and creates a permenant underclass of people who “will do the jobs Americans don’t want.” Well the reasons Americans don’t want these jobs is because they get paid diddly squat and the existence of immigrants devalues the worth of these jobs. When there is a necessary job that few people can/will do, then that job should be paid more, not less. Instead we pay them less, ensuring potential illegals of a permenant job market when they arrive. Then, because they make so little, only a minute portion of their paycheck goes back out into the conomy, and much of it is often sent back to Mexico. Illegal immigrants also drain our health, welfare, and education sy
