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What are the benefits of illegal immigration?

What are all the benefits of allowing illegal immigration in the U.S.? Please give me sites to back up your information.

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Looking for someone to do your homework are you (only reason I can think you want links)?
If you consider high unemployment, crime and disease to be benefits then you have your answer. It helps the economies of the countries that send us their trash.
Only if you like working low wage jobs and looking over your shoulder.
There are plenty! but I'll only give you a few because my answer will then get deleted by the people that don't want you to know this. a) The economy and US workers both benefit from illegal immigrant workers. http://media.wildcat.arizona.edu/media/storage/paper997/news/2007/04/10/Opinions/Dollars.And.Sense.Economy.Native.Workers.Benefit.From.Immigrant.Work-2831841.shtml Dollars and sense: Economy, native workers benefit from immigrant work In late February, Dr. Giovanni Peri, a University of California, Davis, economist, published a report that cuts against the typical immigration grain. By analyzing census data in California (home to 30 percent of foreign-born workers in the U.S.), Peri concluded that immigrants actually boost the wages of native workers. b) Many illegal immigrants pay taxes, and don't collect those taxes. These taxes help Social Security and Medicare stay afloat. It also helps US citizens recieve retirement checks, and the taxes they pay in rent also helps local schools. http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2008/04/10/20080410biz-TaxingImmigrants-10.html Illegal immigrants are paying taxes to Uncle Sam, experts agree. Just how much they pay is hard to determine because the federal government doesn't fully tally it. But the latest figures available indicate it will amount to billions of dollars in federal income, Social Security and Medicare taxes this year. One rough estimate puts the amount of Social Security taxes alone at around $9 billion per year. c) Many US companies have come to rely on illegal immigrant workers because of their determination without making demands for things like higher wages, longer breaks, weekends and holidays off. Some companies would rather close their doors, then to replace them. http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1443334.html One Triangle landscaping business has found immigrant workers indispensable A decade ago, Louise hired illegal immigrants to work in her Triangle landscaping business because she could find no one else willing to dig and haul from sunup to sundown. Now, she employs illegal immigrants because they are the best workers she has ever had. Because they have learned their trades during years on the job. Because she has worked beside some of them long enough to feel more like a mother than a boss. "I couldn't have built my business without them, and neither could anyone else in my industry," she says.
none,but you will get more crime,disease,unemployment,riots,homeless,begging, muggings
there are none. try immigrationbuzz.com
The number 1 benefit is dirt-cheap labor. These are people who cannot and will not complain about being abused for fear of deportation. In some cases the employers don't even bother to pay them.
benefits lets see here.... People working but not paying taxes, still using our school funds and medicaid w/o paying taxes.. and the list is endless THERE ARE NO BENEFITS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
There are none. I'm opposed to it.
$5.00 BJ's in the back of the bar
Drugs, guns,sex. I, guess that about does it.
Increase crime rates, hurting the economy, stealing jobs, not paying all taxes, putting a financial burden on our hosptials and schools, bringing down house property values. I would not call those benefits, would you????
some crooked republican politicians get some $$$, and they smile because money talks in America.
The Salt Lake City chief of police, Utah Attorney General and numerous other senior law enforcement officials throughout Utah are determined to maintain good relations with Utah's rapidly growing illegal alien community. This may be good for the illegal aliens but it is bad for Utah citizens because illegal immigration and identity theft go hand-in-hand. According to a senior Social Security Administration official, 75 percent of illegal aliens use fraudulent social security numbers in order to get jobs. In 2008, 16 percent of all identity theft in Utah was employment related. This is an increase of 14 percent over 2007 and it reflects the growth in the state's illegal immigrant population. When illegal aliens use fraudulent documents to get jobs, they commit major felonies including document fraud, perjury on I-9 forms and identity theft. In spite of this, Utah's law enforcement leaders ignore these crimes in order to build trust in the illegal alien community. They ignore the fact that an estimated 50,000 Utah children are already victims of an epidemic of illegal alien driven identity theft and that 1,626 employers were found to be paying salaries to the Social Security numbers of Utah children on public assistance under the age of 13. They refuse to acknowledge that their failure to aggressively pursue and arrest illegal aliens using fake documents fuels employment related, child identity theft in Utah in spite of the fact that in Arizona an estimated 1 million children have their Social Security numbers being used mainly by illegal aliens for employment purposes. Perhaps even worse, Utah's Attorney General, police chiefs and other senior law enforcement officials refuse to even acknowledge the devastating consequences suffered by the victims of rampant, illegal alien driven, felony identity theft. They ignore illegal aliens who continue to unlawfully hold jobs using Social Security numbers belonging to Americans at the same time American citizens doing the same jobs are being laid off. They ignore the plight of American citizens who are denied unemployment insurance because an illegal alien is either already collecting unemployment benefits under the American's stolen Social Security number or because income earned by the illegal alien is credited to the American's stolen Social Security number thereby making it appear that the unemployed citizen is still working. They ignore the desperation felt by parents of Utah children who are denied badly needed, means-tested public benefits because the earnings of illegal aliens have been credited to their children's stolen Social Security numbers. They ignore the plight of American citizens when the IRS goes after them for the payment of back taxes on income earned by illegal aliens using their stolen social security numbers. They ignore the injustices that occur when American citizens are arrested or when they are denied jobs because the criminal records of illegal aliens using their stolen Social Security numbers are attached to their names. They ignore the damage done to Americans who suffer potentially life threatening consequences when their medical records are corrupted with the personal information of illegal aliens using their stolen social security numbers to obtain medical care. This policy of ignoring massive illegal alien identity theft and the impact that it has on its victims is mean spirited and cruel. If this is the price that it takes to maintain good relations with the illegal alien community, then the price is too high and the policy must be changed immediately. It is time for Utah's law enforcement community to focus on the citizens who they are sworn to serve and to protect rather than on making Utah a sanctuary state for illegal alien identity thieves.
Are you an idiot? There are none.
Crime, drugs, increased taxes, longer E.R. wait times, worse public education so that no illegal alien, non-English speaking child is left behind. Having to press 1 for English. I could go on, but I am getting angry.
http://www.immigrationshumancost.org/
Some illegal immigrants do pay taxes but not all do. GreasyTony is incorrect in that they do not collect taxes. They collect the benefits of taxes through education of their kids which costs an average of $8200 in California. "The resulting estimates range from a low of $5,832 to a high of $23,818, with an average of $8,268." http://irepp.stanford.edu/documents/GDF/STUDIES/18-Imazeki/18-Imazeki(3-07).pdf The median annual earnings for Mexican illegal aliens is $20,000-23,000. http://pewhispanic.org/files/factsheets/47.pdf How many illegal aliens are contributing over $8,000 a year for education alone? In addition, you have to factor in police, hospital, prison and other social services. The bill in the form of taxes is quite high to run this society.Somehow I don't think that they will be paying more than half of their income to taxes that run this society. GreasyTony also cites a study showing that native workers have an increase in salary because they move to supervisory roles over illegal aliens. This report doesn't go into the Americans that have lost their jobs or are not willing to compete for the low wages with illegal aliens. The biggest wage decreases are also from hispanic Americans competing with illegal alien hispanics. "But the concentration of Latinos in relatively low-skill occupations contributed to reduced earnings for them for the second year in a row. No other major group of workers has suffered a two-year decline in wages. " http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=45 GreasyTony also discusses the amount of taxes that illegal aliens put in but not the amount they take out. They are a net financial loss. "...[W]e have been distressed to hear public officials repeatedly misrepresent [the NAS study's] findings as the immigration debate has evolved in the last seven months....these officials make it seem as if immigration is a free lunch for Americans. Low-income workers and taxpayers in immigrant states lose; those who employ immigrants or use immigrant services win, as do the immigrants themselves. The critical issue is how much we care about the well-being of immigrants compared with that of the Americans who win and the Americans who lose. -George J. Borjas and Richard B. Freeman, Harvard Univ. economists and NAS study panelists, New York Times, Dec. 10, 1997." The NAS is our country's National Academy of Sciences. "Californian taxpayers are picking up the tab for a net annual fiscal cost from immigration budget outlays minus tax payments of $1,178 per native-born household. For the nation as a whole, the net fiscal drain on the American taxpayers is stated in the study as $166 to $226 per household. That is a total cost to those taxpayers of $15 to $20 billion dollars, much higher than the economic benefits." http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16981&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1017 Whatever benefit they have can also be achieved LEGALLY without undermining our other laws to accomodate them such as driving with a license, legal entry, legal employment, identity theft/fraud, human smuggling... If we need more blue collar labor, then congress should increase the number of work visas or let in people with certain skills. It doesn't make sense to allow people to break laws and try to justify it with economic benefit. There are plenty of other ethnicities that would contribute to a greater benefit than hispanics which constitute the majority of illegal aliens. How about having more people from India or China that focus on engineering/science who would contribute more to the tax base and cause less crime? People call this racism but statistically it is true. Doesn't make sense to let people who are at the bottom of the barrel continue to break the laws. And no, not all hispanics are at the bottom of the barrel - only those who choose to break this country's laws and demand their rights for doing so are. Those hispanics who come in legally are worthy of being a US citizen.
illegals immigration benefits no one. look up alapac, usanumbers and look up la raza. you can tell your teacher to stop brainwashing our US students into believing illegals help his country when in fact they are stealing from us. and now I'm ticked because I'm not getting taxes taken out because of a stimulus check, because illegals have drain our system and we have to fix it by putting money that should go for taxes in to the economy. I'm really ticked about this. illegals need to leave and the ca take our illegal lovng govt with them.
1 benefit is cheap labor.they work for less money.. they just want to stay n enjoy life.n benefits of US.where back in their home country 1$ makes a big amount.in india 1$ = 50rs.. the illegals r benefited..i just know that..
lllegal imigration does not bring any benefits, unless we are talking about the owner of small companies, they are making the big money by saving money by paying less to these people, Don't look at is as ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, instead, the problem should be fixed, they should become residents, not citizens, but residents, so they can pay taxes and help this damn economy, Don't concentrate to much on the words "illegal immigrant" but instead, look for a SOLUTION to the problem, istead of insulting people, look for a solution to make the ILLEGAL into LEGAL. We are all immigrants unless you are native!!!. I'm sorry but it upsets me the level of stupidity that some ignorant people show. but it's not all their fault.
its good, to show "wallhuggers" how easy it is to get in,and how government just punishes us for something out of their control.mayby "wallhuggers"will grow a pair and get mad at government for such lame laws!
Yes some illegal immigrants pay taxes, but here is the dirty little secret about those taxes IRS Gives Illegal Aliens Billions In Refunds The Internal Revenue Service has allowed more than one million foreigners—many in the U.S. illegally—to improperly claim tax credits that they don’t qualify for and it will end up costing the government close to $9 billion. The best part is that the IRS knowingly permitted the exorbitant tax credits even though workers did not provide valid Social Security numbers on their returns, but rather the alternative Tax Identification Number (TIN) popular among illegal immigrants but not valid to work in the U.S. Furthermore, the IRS allows companies that employ foreigners to file taxes using TINs—rather than the required Social Security—even though the law forbids it. A lengthy report, made public this week by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, lays out the gory details of how the tax agency’s negligence rewards law breakers and deprives the nation of crucial funds. In one year alone, the IRS allowed nearly 300,000 U.S. companies to illegally report wages—of employees without valid Social Security numbers—totaling $9.5 billion. This in turn led the government to issue nearly $2 billion in illegal child tax credits to ineligible foreigners, many of them illegal aliens not authorized to earn wages in the U.S. The inspector general points out that this creates an obvious problem since the payment of federal funds through this tax benefit provides an additional incentive for aliens to enter, reside and work in the U.S. without authorization, which contradicts federal law and policy to remove such incentives. The IRS has for years accommodated illegal immigrants, by creating the special TINs for foreigners about a decade ago and subsequently allowing millions to illegally file income taxes with the special numbers. For years the tax agency has looked the other way even after discovering millions of W-2 forms with names that don’t match a Social Security number.
There are plenty of benefits for illegals, and businesses that hire and exploit them, for the rest of Americans though it means, higher taxes,crime,education,insurance, health care, and of course depressed wages and lower property values. So the companies that hire illegals make higher profits, there are no savings to the American people.
There are none. For proof just look at your local and state expenses.
ur question clearly offends me in every way..... all those people who "tried" to answer ur question are clearly NOT aware of their surroundings..... as the daughter of a used-to-be-illegal mother, i can tell u that illegal immigrants or just immigrants in general play ,a believe it or not, important role in the U.S. They pick fruit and vegetables u eat , clean ur house, clean the streets, work as janitors, and yet u question wat u enjoy? a clean house, a clean street to walk on, fresh foods, clean buildings and schools......all those ignorant people who for some god damn reason say they're taking the jobs of "real americans" are so oh SO stupid because i dont know any type of college graduate who would want to do all that for a living...cuz hell no, i dont!!
None!
NONE!..ZERO benefits...only 100% detrimental harm to U.S.