I’ve got 40 years of direct experience, up close and personal, with the wage destroying effects of illegals in industry - including 20 years of documented evidence in my own business files - and you counter that hard won knowledge with a link to some wonk’s opinion?
Given the fact that my family has suffered directly from this scourge in ways I can hardly describe, I take great offense to your callous response.
For you, this is nothing more than a debate on the internet with some anonymous poster. For me, it’s blood and guts, catastrophic financial losses, actual emotional heartbreak, shattered dreams, unrealized ambitions, financial terrors, and hurt on a level I can’t describe.
My family has suffered the loss of millions of dollars in lost income and business growth, which was denied to us by unfair competition in our industry these last fifteen years.
What’s truly galling, is the fact that you’re sitting here on Free Republic arguing the liberal line that illegals don’t hurt our economy, and that they’re merely “doing the jobs Americans won’t do”.
Maybe you really are a liberal, or maybe you’re a friend of the Cheap Labor Express.
Why blame me? I have absolutely zero say on who gets hired by any company in America for any job. I get by on SS only. Who companies hire and how much they pay employees are not influenced by me in any way. I have no influence on immigration laws. You hate against me is misplaced.