Comment by G00d1
10 years ago
>The result? anywhere between 7 and 30 Million illegal >immigrants, which are essential to the country's economy, >but unable to work, seek the best medical attention or raise >their socioeconomic status.
The reason is because the gov't doesn't enforce the law. If they did punish employers for hiring illegal immigrants then there would be a lot less. The employers skirt the law to increase the bottom line while pushing the cost off on the taxpayer. Cut of the work then a lot less will come. Wages will rise for the lowest earning Americans.
You think anyone in the world should be able to come to Germany? Get ready for a couple million people in the first 6 months. People who don't speak German and may not share your values.
This is exactly the flawed reasoning I am criticizing. Of course, if you "cut off the labor", they wouldn't come. But experience has shown, that this is impossible. Especially not since a large proportion of the US economy absolutely depends on these workers. And a large part of the $18 billion dollars every year is spent on trying to police immigrant laborers. And no, wages will not rise, because wide-scale disruptions would lead to the worst recession since the 1930s. But that's hard to speculate because, to reiterate, "cutting off" the labor in any reasonable timescale is completely infeasible.
What I envision for the future is stopping immigration controls in the entire developed world. Preferably happening all at once. The burden for Germany would likely even decrease. Because just as it is, Germany has been selected for the first breaking point, and the situation is such that pretty much anybody can immigrate to Germany already and not be deported anyway...