We need illegals for social security

[Fire_Marshall_Bill]

Migrants boost productivity by expanding the workforce, allowing both them and natives to specialise. The jobs that low-skilled migrants do, as cleaners, waiters, meatpackers and so on, let people in other parts of the economy take on more skilled work. Florence Jaumotte of the IMF and colleagues find that in rich countries a one-percentage-point rise in migrants’ share of the adult population ultimately raises GDP per person by 2%.
Blocking any sort of migrant from arriving therefore lowers productivity growth. Blocking high-skilled immigration, however, is particularly damaging. Although skilled migrants make up just 5% of America’s workforce, they earn 10% of total labour income. According to Rebecca Diamond of Harvard University and co-authors, immigrants are responsible for a third of American innovation, calculated using patents, when accounting for their impact on native-born collaborators.
"Welcome to Zero Migration America", The Economist

The Economist has hit the skids in the past five years. You didn't notice yet I guess.

 

[Fire_Marshall_Bill]

H doesn't really support open borders. It's part of his contrarian act to try to rile up "Tugcons." Another lie…

 

[Bob_C]

Migrants boost productivity by expanding the workforce, allowing both them and natives to specialise. The jobs that low-skilled migrants do, as cleaners, waiters, meatpackers and so on, let people in other parts of the economy take on more skilled work. Florence Jaumotte of the IMF and colleagues find that in rich countries a one-percentage-point rise in migrants’ share of the adult population ultimately raises GDP per person by 2%.
Blocking any sort of migrant from arriving therefore lowers productivity growth. Blocking high-skilled immigration, however, is particularly damaging. Although skilled migrants make up just 5% of America’s workforce, they earn 10% of total labour income. According to Rebecca Diamond of Harvard University and co-authors, immigrants are responsible for a third of American innovation, calculated using patents, when accounting for their impact on native-born collaborators.
"Welcome to Zero Migration America", The Economist

The Economist has hit the skids in the past five years. You didn't notice yet I guess.

I’ll say.

 

[HHusky]

Migrants boost productivity by expanding the workforce, allowing both them and natives to specialise. The jobs that low-skilled migrants do, as cleaners, waiters, meatpackers and so on, let people in other parts of the economy take on more skilled work. Florence Jaumotte of the IMF and colleagues find that in rich countries a one-percentage-point rise in migrants’ share of the adult population ultimately raises GDP per person by 2%.
Blocking any sort of migrant from arriving therefore lowers productivity growth. Blocking high-skilled immigration, however, is particularly damaging. Although skilled migrants make up just 5% of America’s workforce, they earn 10% of total labour income. According to Rebecca Diamond of Harvard University and co-authors, immigrants are responsible for a third of American innovation, calculated using patents, when accounting for their impact on native-born collaborators.
"Welcome to Zero Migration America", The Economist

The Economist has hit the skids in the past five years. You didn't notice yet I guess.

The Economist cited its sources. Your sources appear to be your very strong feelings.

 

[Bob_C]

Migrants boost productivity by expanding the workforce, allowing both them and natives to specialise. The jobs that low-skilled migrants do, as cleaners, waiters, meatpackers and so on, let people in other parts of the economy take on more skilled work. Florence Jaumotte of the IMF and colleagues find that in rich countries a one-percentage-point rise in migrants’ share of the adult population ultimately raises GDP per person by 2%.
Blocking any sort of migrant from arriving therefore lowers productivity growth. Blocking high-skilled immigration, however, is particularly damaging. Although skilled migrants make up just 5% of America’s workforce, they earn 10% of total labour income. According to Rebecca Diamond of Harvard University and co-authors, immigrants are responsible for a third of American innovation, calculated using patents, when accounting for their impact on native-born collaborators.
"Welcome to Zero Migration America", The Economist

The Economist has hit the skids in the past five years. You didn't notice yet I guess.

The Economist cited its sources. Your sources appear to be your very strong feelings.

Your citation fails to mention anything on the cost side to the tax payer. Economists like to forget that part. We don’t.

 

[RaceBannon]

All you have to do is look at Cal Med

 

[Fire_Marshall_Bill]

19 million illegals isn't enough. I'm going down to the ICE facility and protest with the hippie burnouts and blue haired fat slobs. It should be 40 million.