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"If we enact a guest worker program that allows for a sufficient number of foreign workers to come over legally to satisfy the labor demands of our expanding economy then we wouldn't have laborers jumping the border illegally."

We have a visa program in place which allows those with jobs waiting for them to enter this country legally. If that program needs to be expanded or modified, then that is an option. What we do not need is a program to legalize the law-breaking, sovereignty violating criminals who've come over so far. That simply encourages more to follow suit. As for why we have laborers jumping the border in massive numbers, it's because certain greedy employers want to pay slave wages to people they consider sub-human. Desperate individuals from Mexico find those slave wages acceptable, as well as the risk involved in crossing the border illegally. It doesn't make any of it right in the slightest, and it dramatically impairs our ability to secure our borders. The more people we have pouring anonymously across our borders, the better chance there is for those wishing us harm to slip across with them. We need to know exactly who is trying to enter this country, and we need to know where they are at all times and enforce the provisions of their visas.

They could find plenty of other people to do the work, but not at a fraction of minimum wage for 12 hours with no bathroom break.

"They could find plenty of other people to do the work, but not at a fraction of minimum wage for 12 hours with no bathroom break. "

Most illegals are paid far more than minimum wage. There is competition among employers for even illegals. A skilled bodyman, carpenter, butcher, back hoe operator, five axis mill operator, or diesel mechanic can name his price. If he doesn't like his working conditions he can walk across the street and go to work for another employer.

There simply aren't enough workers to fill the demands of our expanding economy. We aborted 40 million American workers and most of the rest we sent to college to get degrees in art history so they can sell insurance and houses to illegals.