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erniet's avatar

That's the dirty secret of illegal immigration...the illegal immigrants are really being exploited for corporate profits, and at the expense of legal workers (whether citizens or green-card holders). The way wages are supposed to rise is like this; you have a reall crummy job you need someone to do, you offer $10 an hour, no one takes it. So you offer $15 an hour, and no one takes it, so you offer $20 and now someone takes it. This is how wages rise. The way it works now is: You offer $10 an hour, no one takes it, so you get an illegal to do it for $8. Not only is this exploitation, it keeps wages stagnant. And there's the whole separate issue of the illegals engaged in unproductive employment like private nannies, housekeepers, gardeners, etc. The vested interests aren't just businesses; they're wealthy people who hire illegals as household staff and use the same justifications for that as the British aristocracy did prior to WW2. Add to that illegals can't vote or form unions or anything else because their status is, well, illegal.

Bottom line...if you are pro illegal immigration you are anti-worker, anti-union, anti-labor. That's why all the support for illegal immigration used to be from Republicans and Democrats universally opposed it. That it's now the opposite shows which party now represents the wealthy.

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Ken's avatar

That's better than my short piece. Restacking.

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