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There simply aren't enough warm bodies willing to work or capable of working to fill all the jobs without foreign workers.

BS. Where's your evidence?

Furthermore, warm bodies can often be replaced by robots or machines.

There is high unemployment in some parts of the country (eg, Detroit) and severe labor shortages in other parts (eg, Las Vegas) because some unemployed people are simply not willing to relocate, especially when they have welfare or parents/spouses to sustain them.

There's no such thing as a labor shortage in a free-market economy. If you're willing to pay a high enough wage, you will get your workers. Supply and demand. Employers whining that they can't fill a job at the wage they want to pay is not a labor shortage.

Some people would gladly take a job making $15 an hour waiting tables in a restaurant but would not under any circumstances take a job making $20 an hour repairing roofs.

Of course. Repairing roofs is hot, nasty work, and therefore requires greater compensation. What's wrong with that?

A 5% rate of unemployment is an extremely tight labor market in an era of two income families.

Why?

45 million aborted American workers made a difference.

While this is a moral travesty, fewer workers means fewer consumers, so it doesn't necessarily translate into a tighter labor market.

There is wage competition even among illegals. Day laborers will not work for less than $10 an hour and many want an eight hour guarantee, according to many FReepers on a thread last week. I have never heard of illegals making less than minimum wage.

I don't see the relevance of this point.

Myths are hard to overcome.

Especially if the so-called "myth" is based in fact and the would be "myth-buster" has no facts.

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