QUOTE(awfeckit @ Apr 11 2006, 04:27 AM)

So what's the big deal anyway?
Immigrants (legal or not) come to the US to work, earn money, pay taxes.
What's the problem with that?
They work for less money, but it's more money than they could earn at home.
The big deal is that illegals do not pay taxes. If you believe the report most of the legal Mexicans do not pay taxes, but both groups soak up far more from this country than the put in. If they have a child in this country then you never get rid of them. The only work for less because they cannot complain fro fear of being deported.
QUOTE(awfeckit @ Apr 11 2006, 04:27 AM)

If Americans would work at those jobs for those wages, then there would be no reason for illegal immigrants to come here.
If there were no illegal workers to draw from then the buniesses would have to pay a fair wage.
QUOTE(awfeckit @ Apr 11 2006, 04:27 AM)

The people who hire illegals know that they're illegal. So they can pay lower wages. If there were no jobs available, people wouldn't come. So you have to blame the people who hire them.
Make them pay better wages so that Americans citizens will be willing to do the jobs that the illegals are now working at.
That would solve the major problem.
I agree. I would like to see anyone who hires illegal workers lose the privledge to hold a buiness permit for one year. I would bet you could not melt and pour a illegal on that employer.
QUOTE(awfeckit @ Apr 11 2006, 04:27 AM)

Of course, if they pay higher wages, then the price of food and services would rise. But freedom loving Americans wouldn't mind paying more for everything to keep those people out of the USA, would they?
It is called supply and demad. The wages have been kept artifically low because of the pool of ever growing numbers of illegal workers.
QUOTE(awfeckit @ Apr 11 2006, 04:27 AM)

I understand there are now 8-11 million illegal immigrants in the US. A lot of people to deport. A lot of work that won't get done once they're gone.
Wrong. The price of the product like the cost of wages will also go up. Cannot have it both ways.
QUOTE(awfeckit @ Apr 11 2006, 04:27 AM)

I also understand that a large part of the construction of houses in this country is done by illegal immigrants. Who will build your houses once they're gone?
Higher paid Americans. Once again, supply and demand.
QUOTE(awfeckit @ Apr 11 2006, 04:27 AM)

Here's a quote from Slate, April 11/2006
"Meatpacking plants in the Midwest and hotels and other businesses in the South were crippled by absenteeism." Chicken company Tyson Foods tried to play down the missing, with a spokesman saying "fewer than 10 of the more than 100 facilities" were closed for the day. In other words, Tyson was forced to close about 10 factories because of the marches? "
This is happening just because of workers taking the day off to attend the rallies. Imagine, if you can, what would happen if all the illegal workers in these places were deported.
So? You could make the same arguement about any group. What if blacks, whites, or asian Americans decided not to report to work until all illegal workers were deported? The could claim, and rightly so, that the presence of illegal workers keep wages from going up. That is never a good position to take. Extortion has away of backfiring.
Still never heard an answer to my question. If the Mexicans are pure North Americans how did they learn spanish? Are the people in charge in Mexico if not full atleast part Europian?
Build a 20' three layer deep fence from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. From the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Lock the boarder down. Expropriate the land from the boarder to ½ mile inside the US and repel all boarders. Both north and south. And for you who will say it did not work in Europe. That was different. They were trying to keep there own people in. Were will have the barb wire facing out, not in.