Brexit was the best experiment for that. They kick immigrants out so all jobs went to the local population. People didn't want them, produce was left in the fields, deliveries were not made, tables were not waited on and some companies folded. Anyway, immigration is now back and higher than it used to be, but from other countries.
I have SSI it pays peanuts, if I didn't have a job ontop of it, I'd have nothing.
The rules are overly strict and an absolute poverty trap. I cannot legally have 2000 dollars to my name and anything I earn through ANY means must be reported meaning I CAN'T have a side hustle.
I need to stay on the program because my health insurance is tied to it, if I ever lost it I would be physically and mentally near death within a month.
I'm one of the people they're talking about when they mention Welfare Queens
They shouldn't come here (but they're necessary to run my Florida landscaping business)!
I’m from a country that people wants to immigrate away. Even I do sometimes.
But at the same time I am disturbed by some actions of the minority of the immigrants who come to my country. I am leaning to be an anti-immigrant and because of that I feel hypocritical and xenophobic.
Sometimes I think it is cruel to be against immigrants because people do not choose their place of birth and their family, just like me.
I'm just not sure what is right, and this loop bothers me.
This kind of reasoning is consistent across all forms of bigotry. Having self contradictory believes about a demographic just so nothing they can do will be the right thing for them to do.
They move so slowly and lazily that they are invisible to the average human.
This is absolutely possible when people receive welfare and simultaneously work without paying tax. I live in a neighborhood where people are doing this and they are quite open about it, too.
The trouble is that people either do A) deny their existence and everyone who claims differently is a Nazi. Or B) become a right winger or demand there shall be no welfare efforts.
Wow, this thread's comments suck an asshole.
It leads to a paradox where they benefit other countries rather than their own
Zelda
I will not swear off that there has never been any good immigrants. To do that, that would mean to me that I am disregarding all of the brilliant minds in history who have brought the world tremendous things that happened to be an immigrant.
I just feel like though we do get more of the problem ones than the bright ones by a large margin. The ones who I feel like, just take up space. The ones who aren't any different than your average lazy American, it's the same thing but just a different background. That's what I feel we don't really need more of. And I have to put up with a handful of these people everytime at where I work and it is infuriating.
And we can see the bad ones a mile away before the good ones.
Immigrant Men work much harder for much less pay which ruins the job market.
Immigrant Women do the same, or Immigrant Women stay home.
Money made is under the table, taxes aren't paid.
They have litters of children and the amount they make cant support the 10 people in the house.
They collect welfare.
I'm all for opening the borders and making an easy path to citizenship, and I am all for increasing minimum wage for all, but this argument is a pretty dumb oversimplification.
Republicans want to build walls. Democrats just want to act like its not a thing that needs attention.
We need to work on and build an easy and cheap path to citizenship. We need immigrants paid on the books. We need immigrants demanding the same pay rates that we have been demanding. We need immigrants paying taxes.
