[23 Everest]

I’m a little slow, what’s the real unemployment numbers? And we need an influx, (is that OK A.A. Cunningham?) of unskilled laborers?

[DuncanWaring]

Real unemployment is on the order of 16% to 18%, to the best of my knowledge.

[Delta Dawn]

‘I’m a little slow, what’s the real unemployment numbers? ‘

Here’s the key I believe that noone is talking about. The illegals are attractive to business because they can be paid at below minimum wage, not paid on a regular basis and even get stiffed on the last 2 or 3 paychecks on a project. As Bill Murray would have asked: Who you gonna call?

Call the police, and run the risk of having their immigration status made generally known? No way.

Once the illegals become legal, then employers are going to have to treat them just like all of the other American citizens. The side effect this will have(I never realized that I could think so subtly), is that business will seek out another group of people that they can mistreat and underpay with no repurcussions. Can you say, ‘New Wave of Illegal Immigration’?

This whole immigration thingy needs to be dropped now until all possibilities and outcomes are debated and understood.