crimsonfloyd
Active Member
I have ignored it because It doesn't counter my original point because I have not argued for deportations. I don't know how many times I have to say this.
Sorry weasel, you've been trapped.
"Dismantle economies dependent on immigrants". "Jobs go with them". There are hundreds of thousands of able bodied, adult age Americans in need of jobs and currently scraping by on government benefits. If x number of jobs open up because non-Americans are no longer available to undercut Americans, how is the economy dismantled? The benefit to the national budget is also present, since illegals have to work under the table which means no taxes. Your economic scare mongering is 100% propaganda.
I said there were enough unemployed Americans to fill those jobs. Illegal immigrant estimates are at 11 million, with an estimated 8 million working. The official unemployment rate (which excludes people who could work but aren't even looking) is at 4.9% equals ~15.5 million Americans. There are nearly twice as many Americans actively looking for work as there are illegal immigrant workers. There's nothing to weasel out of.
I've provided research showing why this is wrong, so go ahead and weasel again, but the evidence is there for everyone to see. I'm not gonna keep beating my head against a wall while you go deeper and deeper into denial.
Business Insider[/quote said:As a lower-bound scenario, they assumed that any available unemployed native-born or lawful immigrant workers in each industry would pick up as much of the slack as possible and fill in at least some of the jobs vacated by the deported workers. In this scenario, not all the jobs would be filled, as they found that there wouldn't be enough unemployed native or lawful immigrant workers to take over.
Moving on...
No false equivalence there. The wall costs x to prevent what it blocks from costing y. However, you keep making a false equivalence between halting illegal immigrants inflow and mass deportations.
The Wall (cost X) is gonna deport zero undocumented immigrants that are already in the USA (a major source of cost Y). Therefore, it won't impact cost Y, at least not to the level you are implying.