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Old 07-13-2019, 01:27 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by NaughtyRob View Post
Old news and I love that she is giving advice to good hard working people that we need. That do jobs that nobody else wants.
Bullshit.

There are however wages that only illegal immigrants will accept because they are so low.

https://cis.org/Report/There-Are-No-...ricans-Wont-Do

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Of the 474 civilian occupations, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent of the total U.S. workforce. Moreover, native-born Americans still comprise 46 percent of workers in these occupations.

There are no occupations in the United States in which a majority of workers are illegal immigrants.

Illegal immigrants work mostly in construction, cleaning, maintenance, food service, garment manufacturing, and agricultural occupations. However, the majority of workers even in these areas are either native-born or legal immigrants.

Only 4 percent of illegal immigrants and 2 percent of all immigrants do farm work.

Immigrants (legal and illegal) do make up a large share of agricultural workers — accounting for half or more of some types of farm laborers — but all agricultural workers together constitute less than 1 percent of the American work force.

Many occupations often thought to be worked overwhelmingly by immigrants (legal and illegal) are in fact majority native-born:
Maids and housekeepers: 51 percent native-born

Taxi drivers and chauffeurs: 54 percent native-born

Butchers and meat processors: 64 percent native-born

Grounds maintenance workers: 66 percent native-born

Construction laborers: 65 percent native-born

Janitors: 73 percent native-born
Let me explain this economically to you. An illegal does a job that an American would do if paid properly. But the employer pays so badly an American is better off on welfare or crime than do it for the low wage.

You get a little benefit here buying cheap. But you have still got to pay the cost of welfare, the low tax, the crime costs, etc. This results in high taxes or debt.

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https://money.cnn.com/2012/11/29/new...ost/index.html

Unemployment benefits cost: $520 billion. Jobless Americans have collected more than half a trillion dollars in benefits over the past five years. State and federal unemployment insurance programs have cost roughly $520 billion, according to a Congressional Budget Office report released Wednesday
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https://blog.gao.gov/2017/11/29/how-...es-crime-cost/

Researchers have estimated varying annual costs of crime in the United States that range from $690 billion to $3.41 trillion. One reason that developing an accurate estimate is challenging is the difficulty of determining the intangible costs of crime
It would be far better for the US and Europe to pay workers a decent wage and save the country from debt. Or just raise taxes so the average man pays the cost of those cheap goods.
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