Some will always get through. I honestly don't care if people come here to work.Granted lately people in my area are loosing jobs to illegals. Something we never had before. My problem is that once in they get all kinds of services, get jobs because they can be paid less, less benefits. American workers can't compete not because of work ethic but pay scale and benefits.
But there are still about 340 million unclaimed tax forms recorded in the file, compared to 270 million nearly a decade ago. A good portion of those forms were filed by employers on behalf of some of the most unlikely funders of Social Security: undocumented immigrants. In fact, illegal immigration is considered largely responsible for the mushrooming of the file, with
undocumented workers paying billions in taxes for retirement benefits they will likely never receive.[
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If workers were registered, tracked, force to be paid American wagers and benefits instead of being the new slave labor I would have no issue. What ticks me off is dems don't see that they are using illegals for slave labor. Whether some rich person using illegals for lawn work, or Trump using Chinese labor both are avoiding paying Americans to keep their wealth.
Cheap labor lowers consumer prices (saves you money) and boosts corporate profits (tax revenue). Immigrants (more than half of them from Canada) do not cost you money, they save you money.
ANd, there are no "dems" advocating for "open borders". Everyone agrees that people should follow proper channels, they only disagree that a forceless mascot wall is NOT the BEST way to do that.
If you had a problem with people breaking into your house, would you want a better fence, OR would you want more police officers and faster response times?
The 1940s saw yet another reversal of U.S. policies--and attitudes--toward Mexican immigration. As wartime industries absorbed U.S. workers, farmers became desperate for low-cost labor and urged the government to take action. In 1942, the U.S. and Mexico jointly created the bracero, or laborer, program, which encouraged Mexicans to come to the U.S. as contract workers. Braceros were generally paid very low wages, and often worked under conditions that most U.S. citizens were unwilling to accept. Braceros were treated so poorly in Texas, for example, that for a period the Mexican government refused to send any workers to that state. The program was very popular with U.S. farmers, and was extended well past the end of World War II, not ending until 1964. More than 5 million Mexicans came to the U.S. as braceros, and hundreds of thousands stayed.
Ironically, just as one government program was pulling Mexican immigrants into the U.S., another was pushing them out.
After the war, the U.S. began a new campaign of deportation, on a much larger scale than during the Depression. The expulsions lasted well into the 1950s, and sent more than 4 million immigrants, as well as many Mexican Americans (American citizens), to Mexico.[
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Canadians lead U.S. immigrants in unauthorized
visa overstays, according to first-ever estimates from the Department of Homeland Security. Just under half of all immigrants in the country illegally are Mexican nationals, according to
Pew Research. That share may decrease in the coming years, as Central American migrants to outpace Mexican in unauthorized land-based border crossings. But what about immigrants who come to the U.S. legally with a business, tourist or student visa? Most are from Canada, not Mexico, and more are from Germany than all Central American countries combined.[
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If the United States banned Canadians, they could cut illegal immigration in HALF overnight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
