Who Gains From Illegal Aliens?

Who stands to gain by allowing illegals to enter and remain in the U.S.?  The most obvious are corporations.  By hiring low-waged illegals they force the acceptable wage rate lower, and their resulting profits higher.  The second group that profits by hiring illegals are large vegetable and fruit farms.  They’re too cheap to invest in crop picking machines, and they don’t have to if they can hire people at below poverty wages.

Lawmakers comprise the third group that favors amnesty for illegals.  This group includes two sub-groups.  The first is those who think more of their corporate sponsors than they do the American workers.  I think of people like Harry Reid and Rick Santorum when I think of this sub-group.  The other is those who stand to gain most from the influx of potential new voters in the 2006 or 2008 elections.  That could be a significant help to people like Hillary Clinton or John McCain.  In fact, I can think of no Congressman or bureaucrat that truly cares about the American worker that is in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens or any form of guest worker program.

Who loses?  The American worker who pays for the welfare, free health care, free education, free child and family services, and the costs of trials and incarceration of illegals when they commit crimes.

Illegals Aren't A Burden?

I’m sick of hearing that illegal aliens are not a burden to the American economy, and the illegals only take low-paying agriculture jobs Americans don’t want.  The facts don’t support either statement.

I decided to undertake a quick study using the most recent publicly available information from INS and the Bureau of Labor Statistics – 2004.  I included only legally naturalized citizens 18 years and older, and only those from Mexico, since that’s where the vast majority of illegals are now coming from.

Here are the results:

• 1.65% serve in our military


• 2.10% are in jail/prison (this includes all Hispanics and is from the Dept. of Justice)


• 12.32% hold administrative and managerial positions


• 22.95% work in construction, manufacturing, transportation, repair and service jobs


• 60.24% are unemployed and subsist through various welfare and social programs


• Only .83% work in any form of agriculture.  Only a small portion of these actually work in the low-paying, migrant type jobs.

Remember, those I’m reporting are only the newest U.S. citizens from Mexico.  Just imagine the costs to American taxpayers for eleven to fifteen million illegals that flooded across our border.

Nooooo.  Illegals won’t take American jobs.  Nooooo.  Illegals won’t be a burden to working class Americans.  We already have 3.7% of our citizens that can’t find work.  The unemployment rate is actually 5.7%, but there is always about 2% of our work force in transition between jobs.  So whose jobs AREN’T the illegals going to take?  Who AREN’T they going to be a burden to?