From the limited amount that was excerpted, the WSJ isn't thinking correctly on this, IMO.
Whether or not the ILLEGAL immigrant is willing to do, or take, a job that an American won't is irrelevant. If they are illegal, ship them back to the country of origin.
They are a net drain on the economy. Sure, some municipality may make a couple bucks on sales tax but the state and fed govts aren't getting any income tax, the countys and state aren't getting any property tax or licensing fees, and at the same time every time they need medical attention, every time their kids need education, every time one of them commits a crime and gets a free defense atty, they are draining the economy.
I believe there are Americans out there that WOULD take many of the jobs that illegal immigrants have at present. Factory jobs, hotel jobs, nanny jobs, day laborer jobs, etc.
There is probably a need for a limited amount of immigrants in the fashion that W wants to make legal but doing it for ALL the illegal immigrants that are already here is nothing more than amnesty from breaking our laws. If these people want to come to our country in that fashion, let them go back to the country of origin and then have the employer offer them a job.
I believe that W is wrong on this issue. If we reward the illegal immigrants every 18 years with an amnesty program it will only lead to MORE ILLEGAL immigrants crossing our borders and eventually Mexico will do what it has wanted to since 1848 and take back the Southwest, including Texas.
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Sunny Buono had the right attitude on illegals--" what's there to discuss?-they're illegal"--