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To: taxed2death
It's already been proven without a doubt that illegals drive down wages. Wages that used to be able to support a family.

I've never been lived in Missouri but I will still ask that you show me.

Here's what I've read.

22 posted on 05/03/2006 4:24:06 AM PDT by LowCountryJoe (I'm a Paleo-liberal: I believe in freedom; am socially independent and a borderline fiscal anarchist)
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To: LowCountryJoe

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24 posted on 05/03/2006 4:34:27 AM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: LowCountryJoe
I've never been lived in Missouri but I will still ask that you show me

Show you that illegal immigration lowers wages? It is basic economics (supply and demand) but if you cannot figure it out I will give you a personal example. When I hired a nanny in the early 1990's, I interviewed several young American citizens who were willing to work for one thousand a month ($12,000 a year, not exactly high pay). At the same time I was offered help in obtaining an illegal immigrant from Guatemala who would work for $400 (without of course Social security or unemployment taxes). When I asked them what they would do if their nanny who they brought from Guatemala got sick, they told me they would take them to the local public hospital for free (tax supported) care. I was appalled.

We chose to hire an American citizen and my experience disproves George Bush's assertion that no Americans want these jobs. They don't want them at the same rate paid to illegal workers and I don't blame them. We hired an American citizen, paid her a decent wage and paid all the required taxes because that was the right thing to do. George Bush evidently would think I was a fool for doing this. Indeed, at the same time that I paid a legal nanny a good portion of my middle income salary, many extremely wealthy members of the political and professional elite were making news for hiring illegal nannies and refusing to pay the required taxes (remember Zoe Baird and nannygate).

Our nanny’s situation was made worse by the fact that her husband worked in landscaping and his salary was also held down by the competition of many illegal immigrants he worked with. Even on their combined salaries, they barely got by. They could not afford dental care for their son and rarely went to the doctor and, they told me, they were not eligible for any welfare type programs such as food stamps. Here were two citizens working in jobs that George Bush tells us no Americans want. The truth is that American citizens have been forced out of these jobs by low wages. Multiply this story by the millions of illegal immigrants and you see how open borders is destroying the ability of an entire class of Americans to become even marginally self-sufficient.

51 posted on 05/03/2006 5:05:20 AM PDT by politeia
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To: LowCountryJoe

You couldn't find a relevant article that was written recently, not 1986 and 1987. Just keep looking, I feel sure you will find it all by yourself.


83 posted on 05/03/2006 7:02:24 AM PDT by texastoo ("trash the treaties")
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