[ConsistentLibertarian]

“one who would sell our culture down the river for cheap labor.”

What if it’s some guy with a grade 3 education who owns a landscaping business in Appalachia that’s not doing particularly well?

Would you count him as member of the Great Elite?

[budwiesest]

Would you count him as member of the Great Elite?

Not necessarily. He'd count as a Not-so-Great-Elite. Exploiting cheap labor does not make one elite: clothes and deodorant, however, can go very far in this regard.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

>>What if it’s some guy with a grade 3 education who owns a landscaping business in Appalachia that’s not doing particularly well?<<

Ironically, a certain kind of competition is a danger to capitalism itself. As some companies lower their cost of doing business by hiring illegals, other companies feel compelled to follow suit to avoid going broke. This would not be the case if the feds made it unprofitable to break the law, but “the elites” don’t care about the law.

[Leisler]

Milton Friedman said, many times, that you can not have open borders with a welfare state.

The American working poor are vastly hurt by this. Not only do illegals suppress his legal wages, he has to pay in taxes for the extra welfare, crime, decreased property. So, the person that hires labor gets a two fer, depressed labor bids by Americans, totally with out labor rights illegals bidding at low costs, and with the costs, crime and such carried by others.

[central_va]

What if it’s some guy with a grade 3 education who owns a landscaping business in Appalachia that’s not doing particularly well?

Let me fix this:

What if it’s some guy with a grade 3 education who owns a landscaping business criminal enterprise in Appalachia that’s not doing particularly well?