[bybybill]

Who is this fool? Who buys his bread?

[staytrue]

If one looks around the world at those foreign societies with the worst living standards, their problem is clearly not a lack of cheap labor. Indeed, their problem is that cheap labor is all they have. What they need is capital investment in advanced methods.

What they need is to not scare capital away by confiscatory govt. policies. If one looks around the world at those foreign societies with the worst living standards, their problem is clearly not a lack of cheap labor. Indeed, their problem is a corrupt and unrestrained govt./dictatorship.

[staytrue]

The unregulated availability of cheap labor leads away from innovation. Technological progress is promoted by the pursuit of "labor saving" methods in markets where labor supplies are tight and expensive.

The worker is damned if you do and damned if you don't. With cheap labor, you have a lot of low paying jobs, with expensive labor, you have a few higher paying jobs and a lot of machines.

[milemark]

Are American's ready to kill for their quality of life or accept third world living standards? Those are the choices. The hundreds of thousands who went to the streets aren't going back peacefully.

[taxed2death]

"One of the factors "encouraging business to hire" is the availability of cheap labor, much of it from illegal immigrants."

Cheap labor certainly ain't cheap to us taxpayers!!!!!

[wolfcreek]

What makes 'cheap labor' even more taxing on this country is the fact they send most of their earnings back to their homelands.

[i_dont_chat]

This is how illegal immigration costs the U.S.

1. The illegal immigrants have robbed from our taxing system.

2. The illegal immigrants have robbed from our Social Security System.

3. The illegal immigrants have robbed from our Health Care System.

4. The illigal immigrants have robbed from our School Systems.

[longtermmemmory]

That is the point. Import the government program dependent.


ANY paying of dollars is a total joke.

People will come to the USA knowing they can raise the PENUTS to pay a joke fine.

(I have seen it myself with legal consultations. The money is treated as a mere minor point. You want it you will get in.)

This law actually makes the 10 year wait now FIVE.

[A. Pole]

To many businessmen, cutting labor costs by reducing wage levels seems expedient. And in an economy where the laws against illegal immigration have collapsed, there is even competitive pressure on firms to match what rivals may be doing, even if owners and managers may personally find the practice distasteful. But the proper way to cut labor costs per unit of output is to increase productivity, a process that boosts worker incomes and company profits at the same time, and that is the only way to elevate the living standards of an entire society. The unregulated availability of cheap labor leads away from innovation. Technological progress is promoted by the pursuit of "labor saving" methods in markets where labor supplies are tight and expensive.

Cheap labor bump

[Alberta's Child]

This article raises some very good points, but I think the author has missed one very big one.

I strongly suspect that the primary impetus for our nation's open borders policy is not the desire for cheap labor, but for new consumers. The Mexican who enters this country illegally is not "valued" by our government and corporate interests in this country because he works for low pay, but because he may find himself in an aisle at Wal-Mart next month or in a Ford dealership five years from now.

[Fishrrman]

From the article:
Open borders and a new "guest workers" program to legalize millions of illegal aliens is what groups like the Chamber of Commerce desire, in effect creating a proletariat.

It's America's future. Better get used to it.

Having said that, I agree with the article completely. We are in a race to the bottom, sold out by politicians on both sides of the aisle.

Our schools don't teach.
Our borders are all-but open and essentially non-existent.
Our manufacturing base is vanishing.
And, due to changes in legal immigration policy, our nation is losing the cultural cohesiveness that "makes a nation".

Wish I could be more optimistic, but - nearing retirement and having seen too much - I'm not.

- John

[Shuttle Shucker]

Can you believe this comparison of Mexican and U.S. immigration laws?

http://www.directory.com.mx/immigration

Talk about a racist legal system...

[Iris7]

I observe that "imported cheap labor" destroys existing communities. Invariably.

When the jobs that sustain them die the lower middle class disappears. Increasingly professional workers are sharing the lower middle class fate. "Creative destruction" I suppose.

[XBob]

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