So, let me start off by saying that, personally, I have no anger at illegal immigrants (though I think it's wrong), and am a fan of maintaining our current high levels of legal immigration (though I think shifting our system to look more like Canada's may be beneficial). My neighbors are pretty clearly in this demographic (I've never asked), and they are in my house pretty much daily - all our kids are a little mob that runs around - they come to our birthday parties, we go to theirs, etc. They are part of our community.
Illegal immigrants:
- Do work that no one else wants to do.
Work for wages that no one else wants to work for, and which are often below the minimum costs of hiring an American citizen, driving the price of low skill labor down in many sectors.
- Among the hardest working people on the planet.
Statement without supporting evidence or reason. I recall some pretty long tough days in the Marines.
- Basically volunteer to be employer-abused indentured servants.
That they drive out American labor is not a positive, nor is it positive that they create conditions for wrongful behavior in others.
- Are 3x to 5x less likely to commit crime than your the average American citizen.
As 100%of them are - by definition - here illegally, this would require somewhere between 300 and 500% of Americans be criminals which is, shall we say, unlikely.
Illegal aliens also
A: generally don't report crimes in their community as much as non illegal aliens do,
and
B: often aren't charged or arrested for non violent crimes that non illegal aliens would be charged or arrested for.
Both of which heavily reduce reported rates of other criminal behavior.
- Pay more taxes than they're ever be able to benefit from.
They pay local sales and (indirectly) land taxes, while benefiting from programs paid for with those revenue streams plus income taxes. If they (break more laws, and) create a false identity to file income, well, they also generally pay a negative effective tax rate, due to being low income.
- Support the American economy on their shoulders.
.... Meaningless aphorism. I could just as easily say they keep the world spinning with their elbows, or they have helped to keep multigenerational poor populations in poverty with their kidneys, and it would mean just as much.
- Contribute more culturally than vast swaths of the population.
Respectfully, this comes off as the kind of thing said by someone who unironically uses the term Latinx.
.... Are very bad arguments. This is like the opposite of steel manning a position.
