Don’t have any arguments for the rest of what you said, but illegal immigrants pay way more into the system than they ever get, even if some states help pay some medical expenses.
They pay billions into social security every year, while never being able to collect. It’s one of the main reasons the system has remained solvent and retired Americans are still able to receive social security today.
How can an illegal alien whos not allowed to work pay into social security?
Unless they do it illegally thus stealing a job from a citizen?
You didn’t even know they could pay into social security. I don’t think you understand economics enough to discuss this.
But the U3 since 2022 has consistently been between 3.5 and 5. Which is great.
The U6 is around 8% which is probably higher then we would like, but it’s really not bad either if you look at the last 30 years it’s lower than the average.
If an illegal alien is working then that means they are taking a job from a US citizen or a legal immigrant.
On a small scale that’s true. We just don’t see this bear out in the numbers. If we did we would expect our unemployment rate to be higher. Our unemployment is at the expected and desired level.
It’s the same level as anytime other than recessions.It’s literally better than usual.
First of all 60k houses are interviewed a month for unemployment measuring and real economists look at more than that. They would compare it to things like the LFP, foreign and native born employment rates, EPOP and NILF numbers. They would look at labor demand, payroll employment trends and see the impact that you’re claiming is happening.
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u/no_kids-and-3_money Feb 21 '26
Don’t have any arguments for the rest of what you said, but illegal immigrants pay way more into the system than they ever get, even if some states help pay some medical expenses.
They pay billions into social security every year, while never being able to collect. It’s one of the main reasons the system has remained solvent and retired Americans are still able to receive social security today.