[Scenic Sounds]

That's very nicely written. I mean that. It could be the outline for a great novel.

The economics of this issue for workers are as simple as simple as supply and demand. Other things being equal, if the supply of workers is increased, the market price (wages) for workers will fall. Millions of illegal aliens cannot just be dumped into a labor market without depressing wages.

There are people who benefit from illegal immigration. Obviously, the employers who illegally hire them benefit because their costs are reduced. And, all of us as consumers benefit to some extent from those lower costs.

But American workers and taxpayers (particularly local taxpayers) are taking a bath. We just can't expect them to be happy about that. ;-)

[hedgetrimmer]

And, all of us as consumers benefit to some extent from those lower costs.

But none of us as citizens are benefitting. We have seen our schools, hospitals and infrastructure trashed. We are witnessing the wholesale transfer of American wealth to third world countries through remittances. We will see the social security system looted more disasterously than it is already through "totalization" with Mexico.

We have seen our culture denigrated and our values mocked.

No person is one hundred percent consumer. People are citizens and human beings too. But not in the eyes of the "free trade" economists and global elites who see human beings as things to be manipulated for profit, or encouraged to die if the population becomes to large in their eyes.