[GaryCrow]

As Americans we should have a problem with this; expecting low-skilled American workers to accept Red Chinese slave conditions is ridiculous. Too many American employers want to evade the natural supply & demand dynamic of wages, so they simply use open borders to suppress wages. The decline in our standard of living, and more importantly, OUR POPULATION, is clear for all to see.

I agree with you. It distorts the labor market and allows employers to end run the laws of supply and demand. I'm for closing the borders and deporting all illegals, then the people running these chicken plants will have to pay fair market wages to get workers. Don't want to pay enough, fine, go out of business. The welfare state has to be reformed in the process though, welfare is competing with employers for low wage workers.

The standard line from the chamber of commerce and cheap labor republicans is that the price of food will go up. That's fine, the price of food is already artificially depressed because of the illegals, you pay one way or another for that cheap chicken or cheap lettuce. Kick the illegals out, make the processors pay a market wage, and let the market decide what chicken or lettuce costs. I don't remember reading anywhere in the constitution that there's a right to cheap chicken or cheap lettuce.

[kearnyirish2]

I never bought into the “rising food prices” bit - primarily because millions of these illegals aren’t gainfully employed at all, and they are most definitely a financial drain here in NJ. Their anchor babies in particular cause school taxes to shoot up; they should be declining as our student body shrinks.