Illigal immigration

My opponent falsely assumes we have to deport illegal immigrants in order to be against immigration. However, other solutions exist that classify as against immigration, and these other solutions will be disused. First, the question is why is immigration bad? If it is beneficial then there is no reason to be against something. Correlations exist that higher illegal immigrant counts in the workforce lead to lower employment for those native here. For example, as immigrant jobs increase in number native born workers are seeing a decline. Also note the majority of immigrants don't pay taxes. Some do"most don't"and due to the act they use governmental services they are, in turn, costing billions of dollars. The cost of illegal immigration costs our wallets 113 BILLION dollars. But, let me digress into how it harms legal American workers. For example, its been demonstrated time and time again that higher minimum wages harm the economy, liberals have to cherry pick their studies in order to make a case. Higher minimum wage hurts the poor. Why? Simple. Poor, unskilled, and uneducated workers are not worth 8 dollars an hour, due to the fact the give little benefit. They might be worth 7, or 4, but not high minimum wages. Higher wages always hurt the poor [1]. Now, look at it this way. Currently, illegal immigrants don't need to follow these minimum wage laws! This easily harms the poor workers. If you have two equivalent people, one is illegal and is offering 4 dollars an hour, or a native born binded to the minimum wage and can only offer as low as 7, you will choose the illegal because that is what he is work. As we can see, illegal immigration harms the poor due to the fact it harms their competitiveness, meaning the overall unemployment for people born here (and are legal"not breaking the law"rises). The costs of immigration are extremely high, and should not be tolerated [2][3]. But I would like to focus on the fact that illegal immigration hurts the poor. The center for immigration studies notes, "After reviewing the literature in the field, the NRC study concluded that the negative effect of immigrants primarily takes the form of wage losses for workers who lack a high school degree. This is the only educational group adversely effected by immigration because such a large percentage of recent immigrants lack a high school education - about 40 percent. And it is only in this skill category that the proportion of immigrants is large enough, 25 percent by the mid-1990s, to exert a significant downward pressure on wages."[4] In other words, as I predicted, the poor and unskilled natives are being harmed by illegal immigrants, and this should not be encouraged. The CIS further notes, "The current fiscal burden - tax revenue minus expenditures - imposed on all levels of government by immigrant households is estimated to range from $11 billion to $20 billion. That's more than the report's estimate of the net gain from having immigrants in the work force."[4] Yes, I will admit immigration does help the economy as they are cheap labor and, therefore, mean more money in a small businesses account, but the fiscal costs and tax burden is hugely higher then the overall gain from immigrants, meaning this: Immigrants have a net decrease to our economic potential. In New Jersey, for example, the costs of illegal immigrants cost 1,000 dollars per household, and 3,000 dollars per household in California. The CIS concludes, "The findings of the NRC study basically tell us this: We can now say with some confidence that immigration is not the benefit to the economy that it was once thought to be."[4] Great news, the overall drag on the economy exists. My opponent, then he argues for immigration, essentially argues he wants your job taken away and your taxes to be higher. How about solutions? Sending national guard to the border significantly reduces violence there as well as the amount of immigration occurring where they are stationed [5]. A border fence, a border fence reduced immigration 95%, in other words 95% of the immigration cost gone [6]. VOTE CON 1. http://blog.heritage.org... 2. http://www.infowars.com... 3. http://tinyurl.com... 4. http://www.cis.org... 5. http://immigration.procon.org... 6. http://www.npr.org...