Number one, the "FROBL" smear is not based on the truth by any stretch of the imagination.
As for your question about "illegal", it is a canard, the reason being explained by Tamar Jacoby inthe article as follows:
"Our immigration system is indeed based on illegality--on a long-standing and all but deliberate mismatch between the size of our yearly quotas and the actual needs of our labor market, particularly at the lower reaches of the job ladder. This mismatch has often been convenient for employers--it provides a docile, disposable foreign labor force--and it has been the norm in agriculture off and on for nearly a hundred years. But in recent decades, new technologies have spurred demand for low-skilled workers in a wide range of other sectors as well, and the public, quite understandably, is beginning to find the hypocrisy intolerable.
"As the president's critics understand, this is a large part of what is driving voters' concerns about immigration. People don't like the idea of 10 to 12 million illegal immigrants living in the United States but outside the law. They're appalled that entire American industries--not just agriculture, but hospitality, food processing, construction--operate on the wrong side of the rules, relying on the black market to find the labor they need just to keep their businesses open. The very idea of this second, illegal America is an affront, its practical consequences even more troubling: not just criminal syndicates that thrive on lawlessness, but also the haven it creates for potential terrorists."
You obviously did not read the freakin' article. Why don't you READ THE ARTICLE and then come back to this?
Can't deal with someone that is foaming at the mouth....as you obviously are.
I do have faith that the majority in this country STILL rule. Guess you would call me naive, but I really don't care what YOU call me..You have a nice day now...
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You FROBL's seem to buy into statements like this:
"Our immigration system is indeed based on illegality--on a long-standing and all but deliberate mismatch between the size of our yearly quotas and the actual needs of our labor market, particularly at the lower reaches of the job ladder. This mismatch has often been convenient for employers--it provides a docile, disposable foreign labor force--and it has been the norm in agriculture off and on for nearly a hundred years. But in recent decades, new technologies have spurred demand for low-skilled workers in a wide range of other sectors as well, and the public, quite understandably, is beginning to find the hypocrisy intolerable.
What the author is really saying is that we must depend on slave labor and that it's a long tradition.
The truth is that if businesses weren't over-regulated and over-taxed, they could make a reasonable profit without importing slave labor.
This whole problem is the result of taxing and regulating of businesses so the legislatures will have more tax money for more programs so they can increase the dependency of more people on the benevolent government. When they killed the goose that layed the golden egg, the only option was to entice more illegal immigrants to start the whole process over again.
Socialism marches on unabated and the FROBL's cheer it on!!!