(Guy Nohra) – There’s a lot of talk lately about how mass deportations under President Trump’s policies could spell disaster for Nevada’s economy. “
Catastrophe” is a word used recently by local reporters to describe potential deportations. Hyperbole? Yes.
The narrative that society won’t function without the most recent wave of illegal immigrants is preposterous and insulting.
“Who will pick the crops and nanny our kids” is an outdated and patronizing perspective especially when the Biden/Harris administration let in thousands of gang members and law breakers in their country of origin.
Criminals don’t add economic value to society, they are a net drain to it.
Firstly, it is important that we differentiate between legal vs. illegal immigrants.
The Left relies on the false premise of referring to everyone as “immigrants,” both legal and illegal. That mischaracterization needs to be corrected by the common sense driven amongst us.
Under the current repatriation plans, legal immigrants have nothing to worry about. They are the pillars on which America was built throughout the years and will always be welcomed.
My parents fit that category. Illegals on the other hand broke our laws to enter the US and continue to break our laws by being here.
Any fair minded American will be revolted by the fact that the Biden administration and insidious NGOs facilitated these egregious behaviors while millions all over the world await their turn to emigrate legally.
So called experts ( as if the COVID debacle hasn’t destroyed the term) say the Silver State of Nevada has about 190,000 illegal immigrants, making up roughly 8.6% of the workforce (Pew Research).
How does one count the number of people who don’t want to be found? Is that number accurate? How is the number relevant to anything other than a thinly veiled threat to frighten us into accepting law breakers lest we suffer.
Does anyone remember illegal immigrant boycott days that are called every other year? No. The country functions despite silly boycotts by a small group of people.
Nevada still has an unacceptably high unemployment rate of 6% vs. 4% for the U.S. at large.
Hiring illegals harms middle class and poor Americans who get crowded out by the availability of cheap labor. It’s a special breed of despicable citizen who would support harming our fellow Americans for a quick buck or to increase the number of potential voters.
That is the catastrophe – the gutting of our middle class and the hurdles created for poor Americans to reach middle class status by underpriced labor.
Pro-illegal immigration advocates often point out that every single illegal immigrant contributes $ 9,000 to the economy since they pay payroll taxes without future access to Social Security, Medicare etc..
Do they take into consideration the infrastructure usage of the contributor? One ER visit, or 6 months of school attendance, dwarf these contributions.
The most ludicrous claim is that “deporting immigrants, will worsen southern Nevada’s housing woes”.
We have a housing crunch, because too many people are competing for the insufficient current supply of places to live. Can the economists hereby quoted explain how lightening demand for housing by deporting illegals will worsen our demand for housing?
That’s a new interpretation of economics almost as creative as the vocabulary gymnastics that the far left uses.
Finally, we are told deporting illegal workers will put upward pressure on wages.
Yes!!!! On wages paid to our fellow Americans. What’s wrong with that?
The Culinary Union should be ecstatic about obtaining higher wages without bruising negotiations . On behalf of my fellow Nevadans, I am.
The irony of immigration issues is that the problems we face are born by local states and municipalities, while the solutions reside with the federal government.
Our federal legislators hold the solutions to our dilemma. We should demand that they address the problems they have created through decades of benign neglect.
America is a land of immigrants. Our diversity is our strength. But it is crucial that newcomers integrate and assimilate. We need immigration laws that reflect today’s economic environment.
So, before we panic over “catastrophic” fallout, let’s get some rational perspective. Nevada is strong, resilient, and more than capable of adapting to a fair and lawful approach to immigration.
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