Reading this Los Angeles Times article (posted below) it’s clear that the Times will simply regurgitate this nonsense about illegal immigration as if it is fact when in reality its just a couple of “special interest” groups trying to push an agenda. Of course illegal aliens go to jail less than native born Americans. Do the math! lets say there are 30 million illegal aliens in America right now. There are 300 million native born or naturalized Americans. 30 million is ten percent of 300 million you IDIOTS! Of course there are going to be a lesser amount of illegal aliens going to jail!
As for taking lower skilled jobs … Let me explain this again. Finishing concrete requires a lot of skill and talent. I have not seen a good concrete job in twenty years. The good finishers have left California because it is back breaking work and should pay about $30.00 an hour. It pays $7.00 to $10.00. All aspects of the construction industry have been destroyed by illegal immigration. On to the affect illegal immigration has on the economy.
A man makes $30.00 an hour. He is taxed at a rate of 25%. This means that for each hour he works he is paying $7.50 in tax. This means that in a 40 hour work week he will pay $300.00 in income tax. That’s $1,200.00 a month. An illegal immigrant makes $10.00 an hour for the same work. He is taxed at 25%. At 25%, his income tax for the same work would be $2.50 an hour, or $100.00 a week, $400.00 a month. As you can see, we have just cut his contribution to the tax base by $800.00 a month, assuming he pays any income tax at all.
The American making thirty dollars an hour spend most of his money in America. The illegal immigrant spends only about half of his money here, the remainder gets sent down to Mexico.. Someone needs to explain to me how this is good for the economy. Clearly this is only good for the slave trader business owners that hire these miscreants in the first place.
The other less mentioned affect of illegal immigration is on our children. Our education system is constantly being dumbed down to accommodate illegal alien children. Test scores here in California are at an all time low. Most refuse to speak english. And instilling a strong work ethic in our children has become a thing of the past. Why? Because the introductory jobs that our children used to get have been taken over by illegal aliens. Mowing yards for a few bucks? Gone to the illegal alien. Paper routes? Gone. Cleaning out a neighbors garage? Gone. Working at the car wash? You better learn to speak spanish. Fast food industry? Gone as well.
This has helped to create a country of children that don’t understand that things cost money. Kids simply “expect” things now. They have no sense of what it means to get up and earn money. My daughter has been trying to get a job, any job to make money to buy a car. She can’t find one because ….. SHE DOESN’T SPEAK SPANISH!!! She will not effectively be able to communicate with her fellow employees. Talk about a slap in the face. There simply aren’t any entry level, low skill jobs left in California. It’s no wonder American children are getting into trouble all the time. There’s nothing better to do. JD
Immigrants boost pay, not prison populations, new studies show
Immigrants are less likely to go to prison than U.S.-born residents of the same ethnic group and they boost pay for natives, research says.
Two new studies by California researchers counter negative perceptions that immigrants increase crime and job competition, showing that they are incarcerated at far lower rates than native-born citizens and actually help boost their wages.
A study released Tuesday by the Public Policy Institute of California found that immigrants who arrived in the state between 1990 and 2004 increased wages for native workers by an average 4%.
UC Davis economist Giovanni Peri, who conducted the study, said the benefits were shared by all native-born workers, from high school dropouts to college graduates, because immigrants generally perform complementary rather than competitive work.
As immigrants filled lower-skilled jobs, they pushed natives up the economic ladder into employment that required more English or know-how of the U.S. system, he said.
“The big message is that there is no big loss from immigration,” Peri said. “There are gains, and these are enjoyed by a much bigger share of the population than is commonly believed.”
Another study released Monday by the Washington-based Immigration Policy Center showed that immigrant men ages 18 to 39 had an incarceration rate five times lower than native-born citizens in every ethnic group examined. Among men of Mexican descent, for instance, 0.7% of those foreign-born were incarcerated compared to 5.9% of native-born, according to the study, co-written by UC Irvine sociologist Ruben G. Rumbaut.
Both studies are based on U.S. census data, which includes both legal and illegal immigrants. They were released just days before the U.S. Congress is to restart debate on major immigration reform legislation and as numerous states, including Texas, consider harsh measures against illegal migrants.
The authors say their work shows that immigrants clearly benefit U.S. residents and are being unfairly scapegoated for problems they do not cause.
“There are grossly distorted perceptions between what people think about immigrants and the reality,” Rumbaut said. “The old bromide that education is the way to reduce prejudice comes into play here.”
Immigration hawks, however, took issue with both studies.
Steven Camarota of the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies said the wage study, by examining immigrants only in California, failed to consider their effect on the rest of the country. Immigrants working for lower wages in a California factory, for instance, could keep wages down in a competing enterprise staffed by native-born citizens in another state, he said.
Immigrants, who make up one-third of California’s labor force, could also be discouraging natives from moving to the state and taking advantage of higher-paying job opportunities, Camarota said.
And, by examining only wage effects, the study failed to address the declining percentage of native-born adults working in California, Camarota said. Their share of the workforce declined from 65% in 2000 to 62% in 2005, one of the lowest in the country, which could be caused by competition from immigrants, he said.
“The idea that immigrants compete only with other immigrants is absurd on its face,” he said, adding that no industry in America employs only immigrants.
Peri said, however, that his study’s more detailed analysis of California’s employment trends showed no displacement of native-born workers. Other studies have shown that immigration has had a negative effect on African American high school dropouts. But those conclusions were rooted in different assessments of whether blacks performed the same work as immigrants, he said.
Of the crime study, Camarota said the U.S. government had failed to systematically collect 2000 Census data on immigration status from prisons and other institutions. The study’s foundational data are therefore flawed, he argued.
But Rumbaut defended his study, saying the results were consistent with other research stretching back a century. They include national immigration studies conducted in 1911 and 1994, work by two Princeton economists examining 1980 and 1990 census data and more recent analyses of homicide rates in three border cities.
The co-author of the crime study was Walter A. Ewing, a research associate at the Immigration Policy Center. Among other findings, the study showed that the gap in incarceration rates between native-born and foreign-born men was wider in California. Incarceration rates, which rose the longer an immigrant was in the country, were highest among high school dropouts. Those of Asian descent generally showed lower incarceration rates and higher educational levels than Latinos.
Despite the data, Rumbaut said, many continue to perpetuate images of crime-prone immigrants.
Last year, the study says, President Bush blamed illegal immigrants for bringing crime to their communities, as did the city of Hazleton, Pa., in passing an ordinance barring them from renting homes or working.
“The problem of crime in American society today is overwhelmingly a problem of natives, not immigrants,” Rumbaut said.
In the wage study, Peri examined immigration flows and wages of California workers between 1960 and 2004 using U.S. Census data.
It found that immigrants did not worsen the job opportunities of natives with similar education and experience during the entire period.
The benefit for native-born workers ranged from a 0.2% wage increase for high school dropouts to 6.7% for those with some college, the study showed.
However, the study found that other immigrants suffered wage declines by as much as 20%.
“The findings would seem to defuse one of the most inflammatory issues for those who advocate measures aimed at ‘protecting the livelihood of American citizens,’ ” the study said.
Percent incarcerated in U.S., by racial/ethnic group*
Black
Foreign-born: 2.5%
U.S.-born: 11.6%
Latino
Foreign-born: 1.0%
U.S.-born: 6.7%
White ???
Foreign-born: 0.6%
U.S.-born: 1.7%
Asian
Foreign-born: 0.3
U.S.-born: 1.9%
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Percent of foreign-born in total employment
[Please see microfilm for full chart information]
1970
California: 10%
Nation: 5%
2004
California: 33%
Nation: 14%
* Males ages 18-39, as of 2000
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Sources: Immigration Policy Center, Public Policy Institute of California
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Say what you want about the passing of Molly Ivins, but I say she was a bitter old shrew and quite frankly I’m glad she is off the planet. Her columns were not satirical, they were based on a visceral hatred and loathing of anyone that did not think like her. Rather than attacking a politician or individual for their ideology, Ms. Ivins would attack them personally. Ms. Ivins was an angry little troll that should have spent more time under her bridge. She was one of the dumbest humans on earth and her columns often times made little or no sense. She routinely contradicted herself. She was an idiot through and through. Good Riddance. JD
