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It's already been proven without a doubt that illegals drive down wages.

Where has this has been proven without a doubt? I am of the view that the labor unions are part of this problem for artificially inflating wages. If you think this doesn't affect all other sectors of the economy you're mistaken.

Why do engineers (non-union) get paid $100/hour? Because they feel they deserve it since they are generally more educated than your average union auto worker (whose wages are artificially inflated). Just as the union wages affect wages on jobs "upstream", such as engineers, they also affect wages on jobs "downstream" like, say a WalMart worker. Those people would think, "if an auto worker is getting $50/hour, then i deserve $18/hour". See, everybody is brought up a notch by the union wages. So i don't think that Illegals drive down wages. They take what the market will bear. Most industries can no longer afford in a global market to pay the extortion wages demanded by labor unions.

Surely you know, the steel industry went down because of wages not commensorate with what the market would bear and the auto industry is on the same course to doom. Even the grocery unions are outsourcing their meat processing in a lot of places, probably to avoid having to pay union wages.

I've noticed meat packing is one of the jobs listed as something the Illegals do in great numbers. Construction too. They are beginning to bite into the unions chokehold on certain industries.

But i don't blame the Illegals for that. I blame the unions greed. I certainly do not approve of Illegals and would like to see most of them deported, but i also want labor unions gone (i.e. part of history)!