If you constrict the labor supply, wages will rise. If wages rise without a increase in productivity, the result is inflation.
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There is NO EXCUSE OR RATIONAIZATION for breaking our immigration laws, destroying our soverignty, risking our security, and hosing the taxpayer --- none. If the issue was simply LABOR then it could be done legally and without compromise of the integrity of our country, its laws, its soverignty and security.
CHEW ON THAT.
BTW, when it comes to the illegals, are you financially threatened or culturally threatened?