jonop on 26 April 2010
| kowenicki said: I have a question regarding the amnesty for the 750k to 1m illegal immigrants proposed by the Lib dems. Do they have a scooby doo how much this will cost!? Illegal immigrants cost the state nothing... obviously. Now... if they have an amnesty then they will presumably immeditaely go on to benefits, the employer who is paying to employ an illegal immigrant is doing it because they dont want to pay mimimum wage, NI etc... so that "job" will vanish... indeed the emplyer will be prosecuted, the amnesty isnt for the employer itsd for the illegal immigrant, perhaps some non-illegals working for that husienss will lose their jobs too. So lets play safe here and say 500,000 illegal immigrants If all of them hit the benefit system then thats approximately £50,000,000 per week (very low estimate) in new benefit claims..... £2.6bn per year Not to mention all of these people will now be eligible for free dental care, eye care and health care in general. Where is the capacity? Any comments or ideas? |
I think one of the conditions of the amnesty is that they have to work and pay taxes.
