Immigration

Immigration is still a hot topic. This is a interesting area of discussion because there are so many different layers involved. One side views the immigrants stay as a drain of resources and a waste of tax money. This is unsurprisingly more of a financial debate than it anything else.
Does the amount of free services outweigh positive contributions that illegal aliens can bring to the table?
If you view this in terms of economics you end up with two areas of impact. There is a macro or national view as well as a micro or personal economic perspective.

Common macroeconomic indicators are inflation, unemployment, and interest rate. The biggest and most obvious concerns of American people in regards to aliens are unemployment and crime. Jails cost a lot of money to maintain and the victims of crimes suffer some way if not fiscally. The thing is that crime is not limited to non residents, and they get sent home when caught. How these people affect the unemployment rate is a different story. It can be viewed as a positive in some circles. If they are doing jobs that citizens typically refuse to do, they are they are positively affecting the job rate as opposed to hurting it because those jobs simply would not get done. Over half of the food in the United States is grown in the Central Valley of California. 95% of the Central Valley’s food goes through the hands of an illegal immigrant. If the legal residents refuse to do certain jobs and farm labor, how would people get their food? A lot of the migrant farm workers work for wages below minimum wage and in harsh conditions. If the farm workers charged normal wages and requested standard working conditions, the whole system may be in jeopardy because more expensive headcount yields less profit.

The whole Agriculture business model is designed for unrealistically cheap labor cost. It’s gotten to expensive and impossible to survive as a “mom and pop” farm. The smaller farms have sold out to the Doles and Del Monte’s of the worlds.


All individuals have the strengths and weakness which translate to positive and negative contributions to society. Unfortunately, the process is too cumbersome, laborious, and expensive to handle each individual’s case separately. So it’s not the merits of one illegal resident, but the merit of all.

If all of the illegal aliens decided to go back to their native land after today’s protest, would America be better or worse off.

The microeconomic factors pertain to the price of things that people, families, or companies buy. The supply and demand concept is the essence of microeconomics. Foreigners may increase the cost of car insurance but reduce the cost of grapes, lettuce, tomatoes, and all other produce. Its cost pennies per pound and that may be because production is cheap due to supremely cheap labor cost.

KEEPING IT REAL:
CampTrotter is not mad at anyone that will cook food for all ethnicities, pick grapes, work at McDonalds, mow the lawn, patiently wait outside of home depot for work, massage, or any other domestic manual labor task that normal people(like our president’s brother) won’t do just to live in the country. Even if their contribution to the GDP was negative, their cost would still be less the 385 million dollar construction tab due to Haliburton for the Immigrants prison.


Immigrants or their offspring cook food at many fine dining establishments. They also keep the Camp’s home nice inside and out for cheap. The prison that Haliburton received the contract for cost 385 million dollars. If their impact on interest, tax rates or supply and demand is more positive than negative than CampTrotter is not upset. Richer people proportionately less taxes than poorer ones, so the Camp is not offended that someone reaps the benefits of all money donated to the IRS.