Save Our State  

Go Back   Save Our State > Priority Topics Section > Immigration

Immigration Topics relating to the subject of US Immigration

WELCOME BACK!.............NEW EFFORTS AHEAD..........CHECK BACK SOON.........UPDATE YOUR EMAIL FOR NEW NOTIFICATIONS.........
Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 01-28-2010, 01:29 AM
Jeanfromfillmore's Avatar
Jeanfromfillmore Jeanfromfillmore is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 4,287
Default Get ready for the amnesty spin.

Report says immigrants put more into economy than take out
BY Kevin Modesti
Los Angeles Daily News
Published: Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 12:33 a.m. MST
Shining a flattering light on California's growing immigrant population, researchers reported Tuesday that the state's foreign-born residents are more likely than the native-born to have jobs, and they put more into the economy than they take out of it.
The study supports calls for proposed changes in immigration laws that would "allow immigrants to contribute more fully to the California economy," said Reshma Shamasunder, director of the California Immigrant Policy Center, which released the report.
The study concluded that although many immigrants need public assistance right after they arrive in the United States, they tend to improve their financial situations over time through hard work and entrepreneurship.
"There's always a sense that immigrants are a drain on the economy rather than contributing," said Manuel Pastor, director of the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration, which conducted the study. "What I think this suggests is there are huge contributions, and those contributions grow over time."
The California Immigrant Policy Center describes itself as a nonpartisan, nonprofit statewide organization that focuses on supporting pro-immigrant policies.
The study made no distinction between legal and illegal immigrants because of limitations in the available data, most of which came from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey in 2005-07. That prompted an opponent of illegal immigration to call the report "irrelevant."
"We believe immigration is the lifeblood of our economy and our culture," said Tony Bell, spokesman for Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich. "It is illegal immigration that takes a catastrophic economic and cultural toll. ... Any study that doesn't differentiate between the two cannot be taken seriously."
But the USC researchers said they looked at illegal immigrants in a separate study released earlier this month, concluding that giving legal status to currently "unauthorized" members of the Latino work force would add $16 billion annually to the California economy.
Pastor said that because of differences in wages and access to public services, illegal immigrants' net contribution to the state may be higher than that of legal immigrants.
The new study portrays an immigrant population that is already critical to the state's economic prospects.
California's 9.9 million immigrants represent 27 percent of the population, the highest of any state. Forty-eight percent of children living in California have at least one immigrant parent. And their impact is rising, with immigrant voters and their children likely to represent 29 percent of potential voters by 2012.
As for their economic impact, immigrants make up 34 percent of the labor force. Among people over age 16, 62 percent of immigrants are employed, slightly more than the 60 percent of non-immigrants. And among Latino and Asian men in the 25-64 age group, 84 percent of immigrants are employed, in contrast with 78 percent of U.S.-born men in that category.
Immigrants contribute 32 percent of California's gross domestic product and 27 percent of total household income — the basis for the researchers' conclusion that they give more to the economy than they get from it.
Pastor said studying immigrants of different generations shows a "dramatic" decline in poverty rates and rise in home-ownership over the years.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/7...-take-out.html
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 01-28-2010, 07:11 AM
Rim05 Rim05 is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: So CA
Posts: 1,222
Default

Quote:
Shining a flattering light on California's growing immigrant population, researchers reported Tuesday that the state's foreign-born residents are more likely than the native-born to have jobs
That could be true, however I would ask why is it true. Ask the legal citizen how he faired on the many attempts to find work. How is it that you see the adds saying 'must be bilingual'. If he is one of the English only citizens, this means he does not get the job. Why should our citizens need to learn another language to work in our own country and those illegals who are here and have no desire to learn English get the jobs. That in our country which has always been English speaking. The article is nothing but something put together by some who are support illegal immigration.
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 01-28-2010, 07:54 AM
Twoller Twoller is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 1,296
Default

Quote:
Shining a flattering light on California's growing immigrant population, researchers reported Tuesday that the state's foreign-born residents are more likely than the native-born to have jobs
Our economy and society is being increasingly dumbed down in order to make it possible for immigrants to work here. It is not just the language barrier that we are obliged to accomodate. Our immigrant workforce is not fit to make contributions to a culturally advanced industrial society. They are not working at jobs that anyone needs, wants or can make use of. This is even a problem in the high tech jobs. They are not up to it, but the people in charge of the economy sacrifice quality for opportunity for immigrants, legal or otherwise.
__________________
The United States of America is for citizens only! Everyone else OUT.
Criminalize asking party affilation for voter registration! End the "two party system"!
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 01-28-2010, 08:39 AM
Kathy63 Kathy63 is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 380
Default

Foreign born residents are more likely to undercut the wages of the native born and more likely to insist on only working with the foreign born, and solely responsible for insisting that only foreign languages be spoken at the workplace.

The statement is true. WHY it's true is more important.
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 01-28-2010, 12:32 PM
Twoller Twoller is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 1,296
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kathy63 View Post
Foreign born residents are more likely to undercut the wages of the native born and more likely to insist on only working with the foreign born, and solely responsible for insisting that only foreign languages be spoken at the workplace.

The statement is true. WHY it's true is more important.
Except "foreign born" and "native born" are not really a good summary of the US population nor do they circumscribe the problem. The really pathological problem are the anchor babies who falsely assume US citizenship and also the parasite "territories" where citizenship has been falsely dispensed outside of statehood. These all pervert the economy and its relationship with citizenship, which should come first and last.
__________________
The United States of America is for citizens only! Everyone else OUT.
Criminalize asking party affilation for voter registration! End the "two party system"!
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -8. The time now is 12:48 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright SaveOurState ©2009 - 2016 All Rights Reserved