The Economist démonte les préjugés américains sur l'immigration :
"Illegal immigration, after all, is a boon to the economy as a whole, much as freer trade yields a net economic gain. An influx of low-skilled workers may squeeze the wages of their competitors, but it benefits the businesses who hire them, and profits consumers, who get their lawns mown and children minded at lower costs."
Cité par le prestigieux magazine, le blog YouNotSneaky ne perd pas de vue la dimension morale du sujet.
"(...) How much do you have to weight the native's welfare relative to that of the Mexican immigrant in order to oppose moving this migrant into US? (...)
What about the immigrants crowding our schools? Using our health care system? Living on welfare? What about crime? Well. First, most of that is bunk. Most studies which look into the amount of tax money that (illegal) immigrants put into the collective kitty find that it's much more than what they take out in terms of benefits - one obvious reason is that illegal immigrants usually pay a lot in payroll taxes but never collect Social Security or medicare. Likewise the statistics for crime are ambigous to say the least. Illegal immigrants, by and large, are afraid of getting deported which means that they try to stay out of trouble as much as they can."
