New Imigration Reform

[kandrathe]

Like I said. There are social costs, and they must be accounted for. Trying to run your infrastructure on the cheap while also increasing your population is a recipe for disaster. But, then, nobody likes taxes.
Money flowing from a 'community' the size of the US will return to the US very quickly. US dollars are used primarily to buy US products. (Maybe not directly, but fairly quickly.) The money that goes out finds its way back to the US much sooner than the more ethereal case of a small town's wal-mart increasing overall prosperity.

-Jester

The point is that illegals tend to earn money in a black market economy, funnel it out of the country and simultaneously burden ALL the social systems of the host nation. They can earn quite a bit of money (e.g. I know of one Santa Barbara gardener that earned $100K while I was there), yet pay zero taxes, then get quite a bit of free social services, and also the benefits of infrastructure.

All this would be cured by an effective method of registering aliens for whatever purpose they arrive, enforcing their Visas, and severely punishing those with forged documents. On the other side of the equation we need to more effectively deter hiring undocumented aliens, limit the available free social services and have aliens pay their fair share of taxes. If it is worth coming to this country to work, then people should pay their own way. If they need aid to survive or are in any other way undesirable, then let their own nations bear that burden.