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Illegals taking construction jobs: hurting U.S. economy?
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POSTED: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 7:21am
UPDATED: Saturday, May 5, 2012 - 7:40pm
President urges more construction in U.S.
Tyler — Campaiging in front of union workers, Monday, President Obama painted a dim picture of our country's construction industry. He told the crowd; construction and infrastructure have been the hardest sectors hit by the recession.
But why?
Are illegal immigrants hurting the U.S. job market? East Texans talk-back with our news partner: KTBB and host; Garth Maier.
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True statistics may show a different story, and other states may be different, but from what I've seen here it Texas there has been little change over the last thirty years on the effect Illegals have on our state economy and job market.
If we don't want the illegal aliens taking jobs from US citizens then we need to force the US government to do the job they we elected for.
Are they hurting citizen workers? YES,YES,&YES. Are they hurting the economy? Yes, but in not so obvious ways as they hurt the unemployed citizen! All the under-the-table money that goes back to Mexico is a drain on the economy. Their presence in our ERs and on our state benefits rolls and especially their children adding to our school expenses and bad testing outcomes!!!
Finally Rollinson gets one right !! Mexican labor, exempt from minimun wage has an unfair advantage over social security paying Americans and as Rollinso correctly notes, rather than spend their pay in our economy, they send it to Mexico via Western Union to bring more illegals. This is why Obama's shovel ready stimulus failed and just racked-up more debt fo taxpayers. They do however serve to hide the "refugees" brought into this nation whose eventual vote will control key states. ie Henserling
Gee, I hope that "gets one right" didn't hurt too much when you passed it. The illegal alien invasion has been an insidious cancer for the last 40-50 years; and Ted Kennedy's raising of the 'Legal' immigration level to one (1) million per year has only helped to fuel the growth of our NON-ASSIMILATED sub-groups which make for fertile crops of demoCRAP fraudulent votes while simultaneously replacing low-skilled and skilled Americans in the work force.
Oh and by the way, only one candidate promises to bring our troops home from poppy growing Afghanistan ( remember where Russia went broke) to guard OUR borders. By now, even with the media black-out, you should know that's Ron Paul.
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