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"you dismiss every suggestion that deporting all illegals would cause tremendous human and economic ruin."

I don't think that's true. There are people in this town who would be glad to do the jobs illegals do, but they can't get them because the Mexicans will only work with other Mexicans.

So they hang around day-labor offices hoping for some scraps.

344 posted on 03/11/2007 12:09:38 PM PDT by dsc (There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. Edmund Burke)

Replacing an illegal worker with a legal one is the least of the problems.

Businesses would suffer. For example, entire towns and communities would become ghost towns...mortgages would go into default, real estate would suffer.

It's not a matter of replacing a Carolina with a Laquisha. I wish it were that easy.

345 posted on 03/11/2007 12:24:24 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))

"you dismiss every suggestion that deporting all illegals would cause tremendous human and economic ruin."

I don't think that's true. There are people in this town who would be glad to do the jobs illegals do, but they can't get them because the Mexicans will only work with other Mexicans.

So they hang around day-labor offices hoping for some scraps.

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What these profiteers from the illegal labor seem to ignore is that should these illegals be given 'amnesty' they will no longer work for the sub-par wages and benefits that they receive today. The unions are salivating at the prospect of millions of new members. The cost of their labor would rise to meet US standards. Where will the low cost labor that these businesses need to survive come from?

350 posted on 03/11/2007 5:06:18 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")

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