I do believe it has a huge impact on California. I would invite all opinions. I realize it is a sensitive subject for many so with that said, if we could state our opinions without attacking other's, I would think this could be a very interesting topic.
I am including arguements from both sides.
http://immigration.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=000788
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/05/14/why-americans-think-wrongly-that-illegal-immigrants-hurt-the-economy.html This writer argues the points of why illegal immigration helps the economy
http://www.usillegalaliens.com/impacts_of_illegal_immigration_economic_costs.html
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1482
Looks at both sides
I dont think it contributes to USA economic problems. Now days the whole world is facing an economic crisis, and its because of world's finances of the richest people who has monopolistic companies and the overpopulation. USA is a 1st world class country, and there is the heart of world's economy, they manage it as well as Switzerland. USA is one of the last countries facing economic problems because of the crisis world is facing now. Its not about the illegal immigration.
The Mexicans and South Americans are immigrating because the government in our country is corrupted, the richest are getting more richer and the poorest are getting poorer, and the middle-class is getting poor.There aren't job opportunities, and when they appear, its very little the salary and the work its exhausting. The water, gas, light, and telephone fees are extremely expensive as well as gasoline. Its very LAME to see the monopolistic entrepreneurs, and the ambitious politics getting richer because of their monopoly or even because they still the money of the citizens for their own personal benefice. Mexicans are mad toward the country, and even more the poor people. There no jobs, no schools, no hospitals. In the social institutions the employees treat bad the costumers only because is a "social work" and it doesn't cost to the workers and costumers which are poor people, and adding that the employees are not well payed from the politics because they still the money. Its like a vicious circle.
Here the trade union or the syndicate are the ones who rule the country and they are not more than sneaky people that protect their workers in the way they don't do their job in a well manner so if the boss drop out the union trade worker that worker put a lawsuit to the boss of the company and the whole syndicate attack such boss or even the government. In 1st world countries if the worker doesn't do the job well the syndicate kick out the worker from such place.
The drug traffic offers better salary to the poor people so much young men enter to that dark whole. they live live a spam of 3 years being rich and then they get killed by the lord of such business. So the moral people decides to stay here breaking their backs with a low salary. The ones who are more brave decide to cross the frontier to have better opportunities.
When the spanish colonize Mexico they didn't respect the autochthonous people or the indians. They were tortured and even slaves of the spanish, they changes their religion forcefully.
The British who colonize USA did "learn" to respect native Americans.
ALL THIS STUFF COME FROM ANCIENT TIMES. ITS A VERY DEEP ROOT TO DROP OUT.
Well I will not make the story too large:
The thing I can tell you is that much of the latin american countries need EDUCATION! From the richest schools to the government schools. I know very rich and conservative families here in mexico that have a double moral and closed mentality.
But the fact of illegal immigration is:
Latin Americans do help to USA economy. They do work that Americans doesn't want to. (I am not saying that illegal immigration is correct) But it has a reason and that reason is very deceptive, but its not such people fault. It is fault of the government which is trash.
Mid class people from Mexico's frontier cities go shopping to USA, all the time. All their clothes are buyed in texas or california, or new mexico, or arizona.
In resume:
Latin americans are getting USA richer and their own countries poorer.
Im do have the desire to go and live in USA someday for a while... my father is american and my mother mexican. And Im one of those kind of people who do things legally. So If I do it, it will be by the right way.
But I will return to Mexico because I have faith in it, and I believe someday it will be as good as 1st world countries.
Im not in favor of the immigration. Why? Its one of the much reasons Mexico is getting poor. People has to make a revolution towards the govt, and not run away like chicken **** making other countries richer.
Mexicans has to do things LIKE USA, and not run away to USA.
