Robert Rector on the Cost of Low-Skill Immigrants

"Lou Dobbs Tonight," CNN, April 5, 2007

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[1217jesss]

@wheelinthesky300 by the way indians are from india and mexican natives are native to this continent. key word 'NATIVE'

[1217jesss]

@wheelinthesky300 Imigrants PRODUCE. They are found where the most production is needed in the country. Well fare is for the lazy Americans that refuse to produce and that is why there is a demand for immigrants in America. you know whats the biggest burden to tax payers though? its our government which taxes the hell out of you to cover the lost bets in wall street. The white shoe boy thugz in Wall street will rob the payers in the trillions while an exploited indian boy picks your crops .

[wheelinthesky300]

@1217jesss Calling illegal immigrants "hard working" will not win them Amnesty.

The vast majority of Amercians want them deported.

They can work hard in their countries of origin when they get back there.

[wheelinthesky300]

You folks realize that the illegals coming from Mexico are not engineers, scientists, or tech workers.

They are in fact Indian peasants,

many of whom are illiterate, most of whom have no education.

It makes NO SENSE for the USA to import and Amnesty 20 million destitute peasants, who often produce like 6 or muchachos per family, and the burden on the U.S. taxpayer is ENORMOUS.

[Postpinkdude]

that rector guy is funny he had a tupay and a fake mustash on lol!

[derner22]

You are what Karl Marx used to call the "useful idiot" for the big capital. With your high-minded internationalism, you provide the moral excuse for the big business to get the cheapest labor from all over the globe and to push down the wages of the legal domestic labor, thus enriching themselves on their backs...

[1217jesss]

LOU DOBBS just loves spreading the disease of hatred and bigotry which infects only the narrow weak minded. He leads a disilusioned portion of america which is victime of a government which currently concedes to elite corporate criminals whose policies are to get richer and burden the rest of America with their greedy corrupt ideologies. The most convenient scape GOAT for their concieved turmult is the actuall presence that made them richer, The hard working immigrants in the country.

[CrazyGuyFromDaBay]

go back to russia LOL

[DackBev]

scientastic, even if you assumed that they did not have the resources to train for other jobs, then they would simply move to new jobs that don't require high skills. Note that population keeps increasing yet job creation always keeps pace with population in the long term. The same thing happens whether it's increased population from births or immigration.

[DackBev]

scientastic, your statement "business profits are squeezed by the competition from everyone else who uses cheap labor" doesn't make sense. If a company's labor costs are reduced then its profits are automatically increased. It is able to sell their goods at the same price with for less cost. That means more profit.