Most common

But doesn’t mean we can’t stop illegal crossings

That’s a big source

@wahx yeah e verify and other measures to tackle it

All illegal immigration is bad

Eh, it's one of the smaller sources by my understanding

well, good for the economy

bad for some minimum wage workers doing manual labor

which I don't like, don't get me wrong

Not really lol

You pull down wages

The money they make goes to mexico

you cause unemployment with citizens

As they work below minimum wage

they leech of welfare

not really dude, read up on what illegal immigration does for the economy, it's mostly positive

They get free healthcare

But it’s not

All they do is add increased labour

actually they feed into welfare more than they take out

Which pulls down wages

not really , many of them stay on welfare

And have other benefits

yeah but many more feed into social security + medicare without getting anything out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impact_of_illegal_immigrants_in_the_United_States

"Professor of Law Francine Lipman writes that the belief that illegal migrants are exploiting the US economy and that they cost more in services than they contribute to the economy is "undeniably false".[37] Lipman asserts that "illegal immigrants actually contribute more to public coffers in taxes than they cost in social services" and "contribute to the U.S. economy through their investments and consumption of goods and services; filling of millions of essential worker positions resulting in subsidiary job creation, increased productivity and lower costs of goods and services; and unrequited contributions to Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance programs.""

" Immigrants, legal and illegal, are more likely to pay taxes than they are to use public services. Illegal immigrants are not eligible for most public services and live in fear of revealing themselves to government authorities."

https://www.heritage.org/immigration/report/the-fiscal-cost-unlawful-immigrants-and-amnesty-the-us-taxpayer

“Filling millions of jobs”

Yeah by being payed under min wage

Lol so the heritage foundation study is just below what I referenced, and it gets lombasted in the wikipedia article

"Nowrasteh wrote that the Heritage report's refusal to account for GDP growth and increased economic productivity from immigration led to "a massive underestimation of the economic benefits of immigration and diminishing estimated tax revenue.""

And making American citizens lose their jobs

And pull wages down

America for Americans.

nah, you're just wrong about this

GDP growth is the only thing

lol

That’s due to increased labour

Wait.

But the same increased labour causes wages to be pulled down