Well, therein lies the problem. Advocates for ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION want to muddy the waters between illegal aliens and legal immigrants. In order to do that they have to make it difficult for people to discuss the issue and so they try to decide which words we can use. I'm sorry, but people who have come here against the law are ILLEGAL ALIENS. If that is dehumanizing, it is not my fault. They must have dehumanized themselves, or their parents dehumanized them since they are responsible for their status. Not me. And not Rick Perry or Romney. We need to stop caving into this silliness and use the proper terminology.
Remember how the MSM almost never points out the differences between embryonic and adult stem cell research? It’s the same thing with legal/illegal immigration now.
The latest data show 22.1 million immigrants holding jobs in the U.S. with an estimated 8 million being illegal aliens. By increasing the supply of labor between 1980 and 2000, immigration reduced the average annual earnings of native-born men by an estimated $1,700 or roughly 4 percent. Among natives without a high school education, who roughly correspond to the poorest tenth of the workforce, the estimated impact was even larger, reducing their wages by 7.4 percent. The reduction in earnings occurs regardless of whether the immigrants are legal or illegal, permanent or temporary. It is the presence of additional workers that reduces wages, not their legal status.
The Bureau of Labor statistics for December 2011 show a national unemployment rate of 8.5 percent, including 15.8 percent for blacks and 11 percent for Hispanics. 22 million Americans are seeking full-time employment. Despite the economic downturn, the U.S. continues to bring in 125,000 new, legal foreign workers a month. This includes new permanent residents (Green Cards) and long-term temporary visas and others who are authorized to take a job. This makes no sense.