I made a comment to
Steve Gilliard's Blog, and it got a favorable response, so I figured that I would share it with Kossaks, with a few edits (I'm forever editing my stuff):
Someone made a very good point about the pro illegal alien argument that "Illegal aliens do work Americans won't do" is an incomplete sentence.
The full sentence is "Illegal aliens do work Americans won't do AT A WAGE THAT THE EMPLOYERS WANT TO PAY."
- Illegal aliens are modern slave labor and that is wrong.
- Illegal immigration allows the ruling clique in a number of Latin American countries, particularly Mexico to ignore real substantive changes to make a fairer society, and that is wrong.
- Illegal immigration has demolished unions, and union wages in a number of industries, most notably meat packing, and that is wrong.
- Illegal aliens are placed in unsafe and unhealthy working conditions because their employers know that they can't complain, and that is wrong.
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If we kicked out the estimated 11 million illegal aliens out tomorrow, we would have difficulties.
If we could get the number down to 1-2 million over the next 5-10 years, there would be time to adjust.
Would our society change? Yes.
Hotels would cost a few bucks more, as would landscaping, and our produce.
There are people in the US who have never had the opportunity to pick up the "skills that are needed for a new economy", and illegal immigration screws them, the most helpless segment of our population, and that is wrong.
Militarizing the borders is not the solution, going after employers with laws and fines with teeth is.
Make it clear to employers who routinely use illegal aliens as a part of their business plan that they WILL lose their business.
Additionally, illegal immigration distorts the entire legal immigration issue.
FWIW, legal immigration should be decided on the best interests of the US.
Tancredo is a bigot.
If the illegals were from Scotland or Germany, he's be fine with it, but illegal immigration is an evil thing (see above) that is corrosive to our society and those of the countries of origin.