Nice strawman. Care to address what else I wrote? Like the fact that no jobs are at stake;
So they'll just freeload?
no increase in your taxes (other than to pay for the dumbshow Trump is putting on, of course);
How do you figure? These illegals/caravaners tend to be from less educated, more religious segments of Central American society. They tend to have a lot of kids. Kids tend to get a lot of taxpayer funded benefits.
Also, a lot of the caravaners are sick. Who will treat their TB and other maladies once they are on US soil? Uncle Sam, that's who!
no undue threat to you or your family or friends or fellow 'Muricans;
Except that a whole violent gang, the MS13, was started by illegal Central Americans.
not one goddamned thing, except numerous net benefits, such as jobs no one else will do being filled
It's the other way around - the illegals depress wages for these jobs so much . Besides, there are only so many jobs like that. In our knowledge economy the share of unskilled jobs is less and less. And those Americans doing these kinds of jobs are harmed when we let in illegals to take these jobs away by being willing to do them for less.
What will happen when more and more of these caravans start arriving and there aren't enough unskilled jobs for them to take? Remember, Merkel in 2015 initially opened the borders for a few hundred Syrians. Over a million Syrians, Afghans, Pakistanis, Iraqis, Iranians etc. walked through by the end of 2015. If this caravan is let in, expect many more to form.
and the
23 billion in income taxes they pay every year, not to mention billions in other forms of state and local taxes:
This article is pro-illegal propaganda. But even the author says that only half pay taxes - which means half do not. And they do get tax-payer benefits. For one, if they have children in the US, these children can get all benefits because of stupid interpretation of 14th amendment. But even children who come with their parents illegally can go to school for free. In-state college tuition is a benefit given to illegals in most states. California even has a tax-payer funded student loan specially for illegals. Then there are roads the illegals drive on, often without license or insurance. Or how about the ability to go to emergency room if something happens to them?
Still, all undocumented workers fund public schools and local government services by paying sales and property taxes like everyone else. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimates that they pay about $11.7 billion a year in state and local taxes.
And many illegals have a lot of children so they get more than their money's worth there.
And workers who get a paycheck, like Maria, still have payroll taxes for Medicare and Social Security withheld from their paycheck, even if they put a fake Social Security number on their W-2 form. The IRS estimates that unauthorized workers pay about $9 billion in payroll taxes annually.
I bet that in the next few years there will be either a bill or a SCOTUS case about giving illegals social security and Medicare. Just wait for it!
So that's a total of $44 Billion every year from undocumented immigrants that doesn't benefit any of them. Just us. And if memory serves, you are on Medicare, so they are directly benefiting you as well.
Just like your reasoning skills, your memory is faulty. I am a few decades too young for Medicare.
So wtf is your problem if not racism?
I don't want to close the borders altogether. I want immigration to be legal, selective, and based on our needs as a country. What's wrong with that? It's insanity to let in people just because they march to the border and demand to be let in.
