Resolved: The USFG should eliminate immigration quotas.

Resolved: The USFG should eliminate immigration quotas. Topical Analysis: the resolution states the words "USFG should eliminate," this is an active phrase, meaning the USFG would be actively doing something, as opposed to the USFG being passive. Thus, voting negative literally means the USFG would make immigration quotas null and void. The Center for Immigration Studies claims that the majority of immigration to the United States today is due to lack of available opportunity in the country of origin and a desire to find employment. Affirming the resolution creates the following disadvantages: 1. Wage Deflation DA A) An influx of immigrants through employment or temporary work visas causes rampant wage deflation – empirically proven and already account for illegal immigration Beck 4 [‘Occupation Collapse' and Poverty Wages: Consequences of Large Guestworker Programs', Testimony before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives by Roy Beck, executive director, NumbersUSA Education & Research Foundation, March 24, 2004] Expanded foreign guestworkers programs would just add to the already long list of "Occupation Collapses" The process of wages plummeting, benefits disappearing and working conditions deteriorating in whole occupations. You will find a disproportionate population of households who are connected to collapsed occupations. All forms of adding foreign workers to the domestic labor market has been to distort the way the free market sets the value of labor by legislatively increasing supply. As federal policies allowed tens of thousands of foreign workers to enter those cities, their presence in the janitorial occupations led to a collapse of wages, benefits and working conditions. An especially dramatic example can be found in Miami where occupations began to collapse earlier due to earlier mass flows of foreign workers into the job market. But the influx of foreign workers led to a series of changes that collapsed a large number of the construction jobs into little more than minimum-wage labor with few employee protections that had previously existed. Numerous studies have detailed how jobs in this industry by the 1970s were high-middle-class industrial jobs with great safety. B) Wage deflation kills the economy – consumer demand and investment. Patrick Belser, Global Labour University, "Why we should care about wages," 1/18/2010, http://column.global-labour-university.org... Continued deterioration in wages is bad news for the economic recovery. The pace of the recovery depends largely on the extent to which people are able to consume whatever the global economy produces. And consumption, in turn, depends on the level of wages. The trends in real wages observed during the past few quarters raise serious questions about the true extent of a global economic recovery and also highlight the risks of phasing out government rescue packages too early. Wage deflation deprives national economies of much needed demand and can result in lengthy periods of economic stagnation. The imbalance between increasing profits and stagnating wages has contributed to the crisis by creating an explosive mixture of high liquidity on financial markets, low rates of interest, and huge household debts. 2. Brain-Drain DA A) Less Mexicans are leaving Mexico and return migration remains stable. Aaron Terrazas, Migration Policy Institute, "Mexican Immigrants in the United States," February 2010, http://www.migrationinformation.org... The number of Mexicans departing from Mexico has declined substantially over the past two years. In the third quarter (July to September) of 2009, about 142,000 Mexicans departed for abroad, This was 8 percent lower than the number who departed in the third quarter of 2008, 39 percent lower than in 2007, and 47 percent less than in 2006. The number of migrants departing from Mexico has historically peaked in the summer months, but this trend disappeared in 2009. Return migration has remained stable between 80,000 and 150,000 persons per quarter since 2006. B) Affirming results in Brain-Drain. Dassin, executive director of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program, "Brain Drain Is Not Inevitable," 2006, http://www.fordifp.net... When educated people emigrate, they leave with skills and experience crucial to solving their countries' critical problems. Public services are deprived of trained personnel, and countries lose revenue from some of their highest-earning taxpayers. Sending countries also lose educated citizens who otherwise might play key roles in developing responsive governments and organizing civil society, often resulting in political instability and regional conflict. While some researchers have called attention to the net positive effects of "brain drain," The negative effects are much stronger. Brain drain leads to a downward spiral of impoverishment and underdevelopment that drives educated people to seek better opportunities elsewhere. C) That kills growth and results in social uprising. Jenna Schaefer, research associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, "Whatever the Outcome: The Proposed U.S. Immigration Bill: A Challenge for Calderon to Practice Self-Help in Mexico," 6/14/2007, http://www.coha.org... Calderon not only faces pressure for change from the immigration bill, but also from domestic malcontents in Mexico. It has drawn attention to Mexico's perilous economic situation and Calderon realizes he needs to implement concrete changes or face an angry and restless populace as his term winds on. Although the Mexican education system was somewhat improved under the leadership of President Fox, a disproportionate number of the educated individuals have opted to study abroad or are being recruited by entities in other countries. The loss of intellectual capital threatens Mexico's potential for economic development as society becomes encapsulated in a cycle of ineffectual education often followed by mass migration, leaving Mexico unable to benefit from the intellectual human capital it so painfully has developed. D) Mexican collapse causes global instability and US withdrawal. Robert Westhawk, Former global research director and portfolio manager for a large investment firm and former U.S. Marine Corps officer, "Now that would change everything," 12/21/2008, http://westhawk.blogspot.com... Any descent by the Mexico into chaos would demand an American response based on the serious implications for homeland security alone. The "rapid collapse" of Mexico would change everything with respect to the global security environment. Such a collapse would have enormous humanitarian, constitutional, economic, cultural, and security implications for the U.S. It would seem the U.S. federal government, indeed American society at large, would have little ability to focus serious attention on much else in the world. There would be no running from a Mexican collapse. E) Brain-Drain hinders U.S. Economy New York Times Upfront, September 27, 2002, No. 2, Vol. 135, p. 18 Mexicans aren't the only ones concerned. Increasingly, what happens in Mexico affects the United States, and vice versa. Mexico is America's second-largest trading partner. Mexico buys 73 percent of its imports from the U.S., and sells the U.S. 89 percent of its exports, Mexico's economic problems ripple through American cities.