[m1-lightning]

Citing the authority of "Uncle Miltie" Friedman, who's as big a hard-money Republican as you're likely to find, yes, I favor efforts of workers to unionize and bargain collectively. After all, it's free association to begin with, and the last I'd heard, negotiation wasn't illegal.

Interesting opinion, however, I was speaking of immigrants under a worker program.

[lentulusgracchus]

Oh, sorry......no, I don't favor the neo-bracero program, because all it is, is legal cover for the illegals' employers to keep on doing what they have been doing, employing Third World populations willy-nilly in order to bust down their labor costs w/o respect to minimum wages or the larger interests of society in seeing needy Americans get the work instead.

It's all about getting the work done cheaper. There's never a number that the employer has to get -- they're just opportunistically fishing for dirt-cheap wages among desperate people who weren't making it at home because of domestic mismanagement and because their native country's well-to-do enjoy effective control of their labor market and are positively administering and assigning poverty within their society for their own benefit.