And again ... those jobs are not being "taken away" from anybody.
You are providing a phony justification. Wages are product of supply and demand. Americans and legal residents are not competing on a level playing field when illegal aliens apply for jobs. They are depressing wages.
Ironically, your argument for saying that my justification is "phony," just happens to be ... my argument: illegals get hired because they cost less than Americans do.
We can only control what we can control.
And yet you apparently refuse to focus on the demand side, which is the real source of the problem.
People need more money to survive. American workers are not the problem. It all goes back to supply and demand.
Now you're just hiding your head in the sand. The demand is for low-cost workers; the supply of legal workers is asking for more money/benefits than the employers are willing (or able) to pay.
And again, you are wrong. You are making the phony assumption that none of those 7 million plus jobs would be filled if there were no illegal aliens to fill them.
Ironically, your argument for saying that my justification is "phony," just happens to be ... my argument: illegals get hired because they cost less than Americans do.
Of course they are cheaper. The only problem is that it is against the law to hire them.
And yet you apparently refuse to focus on the demand side, which is the real source of the problem.
Demand isn't the problem in this ountry. We have plenty of labor, skilled and unskilled.
Now you're just hiding your head in the sand. The demand is for low-cost workers; the supply of legal workers is asking for more money/benefits than the employers are willing (or able) to pay.
The employers might be willing (or able) to pay if they didn't have access to any more illegal workers. You just don't seem to get it. FYI: We are bring in both skilled and unskilled workers legally to the tune of about one million a year.
Q & A session with Milton Friedman at the 18th Annual Institute for Liberty and Policy Analysis (ISIL) World Libertarian Conference, August 20-22, 1999, in San Jose, Costa Rica. Co-sponsors: The Mackinac Center for Public Policy; the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.
Q: Dr. Friedman should the U.S.A. open its borders to all immigrants? What is your opinion on that?
A: Unfortunately no. You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
Q: Do you oppose a unilateral reduction of tariffs and if not how can you oppose open immigration until the welfare state is eliminated?
A: I am in favor of the unilateral reduction of tariffs, but the movement of goods is a substitute for the movement of people. As long as you have a welfare state, I do not believe you can have a unilateral open immigration. I would like to see a world in which you could have open immigration, but stop kidding yourselves. On the other hand, the welfare state does not prevent unilateral free trade. I believe that they are in different categories.
Q: Instead of a green card [resident alien status], can the USA issue a blue card which does not give welfare?
A: If you could do that, that would be fine. But I don’t believe you can do that. It’s not only that it is not politically feasible, I don’t think that it is desirable to have two classes of citizens in a society. We want a free society. We want a society in which every individual is treated as an end in themselves. We don’t want a society in which some people are in there under blue conditions, others are in there under red conditions, others are in there under black conditions. We want a free society. So I don’t believe such ....
I haven’t really ever thought of that system. It’s a new question. I very rarely get a new question, but I must admit that’s a new question for me. And I haven’t really thought about it a great deal, but my initial reaction is that it’s a very undesirable proposal.