Panel to consider immigrants' effect on economy

Panel to consider immigrants' effect on economy

www.chicagotribune.com

With the national unemployment rate at a 25-year high, an almost unavoidable set of questions has become a focus of both sides in the nation's Immigration debate as the Obama administration plans to convene a bipartisan summit on the issue Monday.

Are the estimated 11.6 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. taking jobs from Americans? And how would providing them with lawful status help or hurt the nation's struggling economy?

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Nice to see that at least this is being discussed, but i wonder if it is just lip service, as it does not take a rocket scientist to see that there is at least some effect to the job market, especially in the southwest...here in az we have a growing unemployment rate but there seems to be little headway in doing any thing that will benefit the people of az.

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[edit on 8/6/2009 by Mirthful Me]

shouldn't the word illegal be in the headline title?

anyhow, any investiagion how military overspending, funding israeli's army, funding foreign nuclear projects only to attack that country later, or propping up govts., or bailouts affect the economy?

Or are we just going to attack the minority who illegaly jumped a fence to live in a country acquired through theft and murder?

The truth is..they willw ork for mmuch less moneya dn do very hard work..buisnesses like that, im sure INS records have very good documentaiton of this, from raids all across america. And the buisnesses only punishemnt? a few thousand dollars in fiens, while actual citiziens struggling, especially now, to make ends meet, are laid off, fired, let go,a nd replaced wtih soemoe who could care less about this country and its poeple. Its all abuot the money..ive been in retail business for 19 years...food stroe and pharmacy, and sometimes thats the reason.they hire illgal immigrants, who try to get married to gain resdinecy, take a ride on the ssytem at taaxpayers expense, to better thier life. Immaignie if id di that in any other country around the world? IDe be doeprted or arrested.. America is the great melting pot, that i understand made up of immigrants. It just seems the ssytem here wnats to get rid of high paying jobs, and implement a 3rd world country type working class that does as obeyed and told.all in the name of profit and business. Thatts my conclusion.
For them to want to study the ffects of illgal immigrants on society? thier up to no good, thats for sure. Instead of allerting INS, they wanna sit abck and study it...clearly thiers interests for them that are not for us...

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To the victor goes the Spoils and whether you like it or not American Ancestors won the war. Now hopping the fence is illegal and a crime, but since you want to point out the countries "Flaws" how about this.

Maybe we should look into the billons of dollars spent on feeding poor African nations. We need to investigate why we keep sending food and money to those pesky Latin's as the sneak back into he country. Or how about the inept ability of our own Citizens unable to get off there arse and find a job and pay for there own food. We should investigate SSN, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, HUD housing, CHIP, and all the other Social programs in the nation it must stop immediately.


See the country isn't that bad; Stop buying into the America is wrong crowd if you don't like my country leave my country it.

I kinda do agree with you on that, stop sending mony to other countrys, i mean what abous US? Just goes to show what the FED thinks about us.I will admitt..ive seen those commercials with some young mother in latin america, in a poor section, holding her malnourished kids in her arms..it is sad to see, and i do get sympathetic wwhen seeing that. See, thats the problem right thier...its what they show you, play on your emotions and sympathys to send money, and god only really kows where yuor money REALLY goes if yuor dumb enough ot send it them. SHe could have a coc aine factory for all we know! she dosnt need the money..its kinda like the jimmy baker thing back in the 1980's and his church thing..god needs yuor moeny! send cash and checks blah blah.
And then the welfare thing...everyone knows it was common, VERY indeed, for welfare recipieants..a mother, would give birth every year or 2 jsut to keep the money rolling in. ALL that money could have been financed into the economy to i dunno..call me a crazy thinker and vision seer... JOBS? better neighborhoods and food for all? call me crazy..and would have forced her 17 year old son to stop seeling drugs and get a job at least!
My mom was born in Austria, came to america around 1952..she was 5 then. Went to Ellis island, reigstered and became an immediate citizen..but at least she did it how yuor suposed too! not sneak in and sccrew the countrys citizens out of thier money and hoping to step on them to get ahead. plus she didnt bring gang violence with ehr, something that was never really dealt with. Well, at least unless the CIA lloked in that direction and started recruiting members to smuggle and launder drugs and money..so when it all fell down during and investigation, it was the gang member that took the fall, not the CIA>

Originally posted by poedxsoldiervet
Maybe we should look into the billons of dollars spent on feeding poor African nations.

Percentage wise the United States is the country in the OECD that devotes less public money to development aid.

Only five countries (Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden) have met the United Nations’ target of providing 0.7 percent of their gross national income in aid to poor countries. The United States has never spent more than one quarter of one percent of its national income on foreign aid, and two thirds of that has been devoted to just two countries: Israel and Egypt.

www.rgemonitor.com...

Interesting eh?

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He can't leave cuz he's in French Canada. But he sure is very good at pointing out how bad we are. He seems to do that a lot. Our country is fine as long as its the US paying the bills or giving our tax money to people that other countries think we should be supporting while they sit back and do NOTHING! They love to invest when they can make money off of our stock market or money market but let something happen in the world and the first thing out of their mouths is 'The US is rich, let them pay for it'!!

Zindo

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Are the estimated 11.6 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. taking jobs from Americans? And how would providing them with lawful status help or hurt the nation's struggling economy?

Lawful status???? Why even consider rewarding these criminals. ?? What we need to do is take away their benefits. America is crazy to give these criminals welfare and free schooling and free ER care.