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The ILLEGAL immigration, ignore-the-law advocates in both Parties cannot handle the truth it seems to me. They mostly rely instead on stupid liberal tricks such as name calling and how they feeeeeeeeel about it.

Who did the work before there were millions and millions of ILLEGAL aliens here and millions more on the way? It's an artificial labor glut created by NOT ENFORCING OUR REPUBLIC'S IMMIGRATION LAWS! (Yes, I know about the 5.2 official unemployment rate, but what percentage of working age folks are not working or are underemployed compared to years ago?)

A Northeastern University study reports that recent immigrants are getting many of the jobs while citizens and established immigrants remain unemployed or underemployed.

How many ILLEGAL immigrants are employed in agriculture? Three percent of them.

Supporting the Northeastern study is this recent posting on FR,

"Only 3 percent of the undocumented immigrants work in agriculture. The greatest numbers, 33 percent, work in the service industry.

"The rest work in construction, production, installation and repair, sales and administration, transportation and material moving, and management and business." [End quote]

It's from a Pew Hispanic Center report.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1423667/posts

The Northeastern report can be had at

http://www.nupr.neu.edu/7-04/immigration_july04.shtml

The 2004 midyear report suggested that

"Given the controversial but policy relevant findings on the immigrant role in U.S. labor markets over the past four years and its adverse consequences for younger and less skilled workers, the study calls for a sustained and high level national policy debate over the future role of immigration in U.S. labor markets. This topic should also be a key issue in the Presidential debates this fall."

Except for one question in one presidential debate ILLEGAL immigration was of course not an issue much less a key issue. That question BTW was asked only because the network received tons of emails demanding it be asked. It can no longer be ignored.