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Decrease welfare and unemployment benefits and the pool of job applicants will surge.

I'll put it another way. If we DON"T decrease welfare and UE benefits, then the pool of citizen applicants WILL NEVER surge. Lotta folks, including Freepers don't want to admit it, but welfare and UE benefits ARE A BIG BIG PART of the illegal immigration problem.

Look there are two different immigrants. One that crosses the southern boarder. That type is not valuable to many business. Certainly not public companies that would pay a price to use them. Maybe they could hire an outside company to hire them and use them as contract workers. That may happen in areas like food service or grounds keeping.

But business care mostly about computer programmers. And there are almost no American programmers. The starting salary for a programmer with a college degree in Computer Science and no experience is $80,000.

America does not have enough programmers and those with Sociology degrees, or English degrees or History degrees can not be turned into programmers.

Programmers who are valuable have lots of math and logic at an early age. You can wipe out most Americans right there. India and China have lots of these people and American companies pay them $80,000 even when they don't speak English. But the government lowered the number of H1 visas for these people in the 2001 recession. And they have never raised it. These people create jobs. They do not take them.

If you wish to higher Americans. Then you need to fire teachers. Too many teachers have no ability to teach math or technical subjects. Computer programming could be taught in 5th grade. But the public school teachers (and most of the private school teachers) have no abilities in these areas.

So let the highly educated math and computer science foreigners in. Stop everyone else. And fire half the teachers.

That’s not the problem. The problem is greedy AH employers who want dirt cheap illegal labor...

They want low wage people who think company benefits are 10 minute breaks and are content with 8 bucks an hour.

Get it?