@maporsche,
Quote:1) automation makes everything cheaper. Keeping the cost increases down = makes the items cheaper
Only to a point as the only saving is in labor costs. Why aren't cars cheaper if automation does as you said it does? Cars have gotten more expensive as time has gone on, not cheaper.
Quote:2) the jobs they'll take are the jobs that their living here will require.
That's not an answer. That sounds like a lot of people ending up on welfare and other social programs.
Quote:Open up a new grocery store, hire people looking for jobs to fill it. Bring 200,000 people to an area over 10-15 years and new business will pop up all over in response to customer demand. That is how capitalism works. When people move to an area, they build a city around them.
Great, why not move poor people from the inner cities to some plot of land somewhere and let them just start their own town... Nothing you have stated here is a positive for immigration when we already have millions of poor and unskilled and under educated people here in the US. You want to bring in more of the same for them to compete against, and then increase social welfare spending for those who "can't cut it."
Quote:3) we are at basically full employment; there are jobs available, hundreds of thousands just on monster.com (55,000 just in Chicago, 65k in LA, 45k in Phoenix). That doesn't even count laborer jobs or gig-economy jobs like Uber.
So why are so many able bodied people still on welfare on other social welfare programs? If we are at 100% employment and things are so good, then we can cut those programs, no need to expand them.
Quote:4) American citizens can be hired to teach English. Hey look, more jobs.
Who's going to pay citizens to teach foreigners to speak English? More govt spending and tax increases?
Quote:5) They'll find jobs the same way people who don't speak English find jobs today. They work for other non-English speaking people or they work for companies who have dual-language employees. Or they'll be babysitters for Spanish speaking families who work or any number of jobs.
I'm not sure the way they find work now is a good thing. It seems to only encourage more illegal immigration.
Quote:6) They live in immigrant communities at first, like all immigrants before them. Why do you think there are pockets of immigrants in all cities and communities. Over time they integrate or their children who attend American schools integrate and then those kids take care of their immigrant parents...just like most immigrants before them.
Unlike previous immigrants before them, we are making it easier and easier to not assimilate into our culture and to leave people as they are. You wouldn't even support English as the official language of the US if it was put to a vote, you have said as much in previous threads.
