Here we go again. The black unemploment rate in this country is 8.5% and Hispanic 5.8%. Importing millions of high school dropouts who don’t speak English is not the solution to our labor problem. People are not units of labor. They can’t be disposed of if they are no longer needed. We are sowing the seeds of our own destruction in the name of the bottom line. Business should not be setting our immigration [legal and illegal] policies.
Currently we are getting somewhere in the neighborhood of 800,000 to double that, it's really unknown since they are all sneaking in and we really don't know.
We should be picking the best of the brains from around the world instead of the lowest of the low from Mexico and Central America. To ignore the brightest of the bright who would come to this country in a heart beat simply is destroying the country, breaking the law, and the worst of racist policies we have every submitted to,IMHO.
Some of us don’t see the Country’s demise by having Paco wahing cars in the carwash or mowing cooperate lawns. Some just see hard working Mexicans doing jobs that nobody else wants to or can afford to do, Black or White.
You guys see Brown hordes polluting our land when in fact many businesses need those people to make their businesses run. We have aborted 40 million entry level workers in the past 40 years and now we have a shortage of those workers.
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I've become more convinced that the pro-amnesty business lobby isn't necessarily pushing for legalized status per se. After all, why would they need/want legal workers who will cost exactly the same (and have the ability to sue over workplace violations, etc) as the previously employed citizens they replaced?
Rather, I think the driver is all about grandfathering-in civil lawsuit protections. These billion $ class-action lawsuits are just beginning to work their way through the system. That's why NO bill is much better than any bill for plaintiffs (ie US citizens). If the business lobby had their druthers, the amnesty bill would forgo amnesty/registration altogether, and focus purely on legal protection.
However, in order to get the deal done, they had to agree to certain compromises. OTOH, they're counting on having no enforcement so that they can once again start hiring illegals, so it's basically win-win for them.