How to handle illegal aliens has been a top
topic of conversation among politicians for
quite some time. While liberals tend toward
wanting to embrace illegals and treat them
to all the government assistance they can
consume, this also leads them to point fingers
at conservatives as if the right doesn’t
like immigration.
The huge defining factor for conservatives
is the difference between legal and illegal
immigrants. America has a long history of
welcoming immigrants, once the proper vetting
process has been achieved. The reasons for
that are multiple, but right at the top of
the list is ensuring that criminals don’t
immigrate here and take advantage of our freedoms.
Possibly the second most important issue is
the economic toll that is put on America when
there’s a relentless flow of settlers taking
advantage of government funding.
The debate changed drastically changed with
the election of Donald J. Trump, who was elected
in large part due to his economic background
and history of excellent business growth.
Many people hoped that the President would
run the country like a business, and that
necessitates getting a handle on the outflow
of cash.
That outflow saw an incredible spike during
the Obama administration, and a lot of it
was flowing toward illegal immigrants, taking
advantage of government programs that were
meant for legal residents who had fallen on
hard times. According to Breitbart News, the
increase in food stamps alone is enough to
make a taxpayers blood boil:
“The number of new immigrants on food stamps
has more than tripled over the last decade,
a study by the Center for Immigration Studies
(CIS) reveals.
Between 2007 and 2017, food stamp usage by
new immigrants to the United States has more
than tripled from four percent in 2007 to
13 percent in 2017, CIS Director of Research
Steven Camarotta finds in his latest study.
Native-born Americans’ food stamp usage
increased as well, but not as much as new
immigrants. For Americans, about six percent
were on food stamps in 2007. In 2017, the
number of native-born American households
taking food stamps has ticked up to about
ten percent.
The research means that new immigrants are
now more likely than native-born Americans
to use food stamps.
If an amnesty for illegal aliens enrolled
in or eligible for the President Obama-created
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
program passed through the Republican-controlled
Congress, about one in five amnesty recipients
would end up on food stamps, Breitbart News
reports.
Currently, the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million
legal and illegal immigrants every year, with
more than 70 percent coming to the country
through chain migration. In the next 20 years,
the current U.S. legal immigration system
is on track to import roughly 15 million new
foreign-born voters. Between seven and eight
million of those foreign-born voters will
arrive in the U.S. through chain migration.
The current inflow of millions of illegal
and legal immigrants has kept labor cheap
for big businesses while leaving American
workers with stagnant and decreased wages
for decades.”
That, as you can well imagine, is difficult
enough for the economy to cope with. However,
the argument is constantly made that illegals
are often productive citizens, and making
the country better just by being here. However,
according to a recent interview with a southern
California businessman, that’s not accurate
either. His report of the working situation
in CA is that illegals are destroying the
supply and demand for workers in many fields:
“A whistleblower in the southern California
construction industry says illegal alien workers
have “taken over every trade” in the business
while driving down wages by an estimated 40
percent.
In an interview with the group Progressives
for Immigration Reform, a whistleblower who
was an independent contractor throughout the
1980s and 1990s explains how the California
construction industry transformed into one
in which American men could make a middle-class
living off blue-collar work to a business
where wages have plummeted and illegal aliens
dominate the field.
Blaine Taylor, the whistleblower, said the
construction industry in California once offered
a starting wage of about $45 an hour in the
late 1980s. Fast-forward to 2018 — nearly
two decades into when illegal aliens began
flooding the industry — he now says that
wages have fallen by more than half, standing
at just $11 an hour.
Taylor says that the flood of illegal alien
workers contributed to wages in the California
construction industry plummetting between
the 1980s to today.
Between 2008 and 2016, construction wages
were actually lower than in 1998, representing
a roughly 40 percent drop in pay. At the same
time, construction materials, Taylor said,
increased by about 50 percent.
Meanwhile, Taylor says that illegal aliens
are dominating the blue-collar trades in the
California construction industry, with an
illegal alien population that potentially
exceeds more than three million.”
Truth be told, immigrating illegally does
make many people’s lives better, just not
Americans.
Do you think illegals should be given government
assistance? Let us know in the comments!
