Immigration and Texas' Budget Crisis: The Elephant in the Room

Time out, all.

We are spiraling into personal jabs and countermeasures. Silly stuff. Let's return to the point in chief: are Hispanic immigrants good or bad for the American economy? What is the human capital/concern, short term and long?

I believe the market pulls these immigrants in-- and so they must be welcome, one way or another. Others say they cost too much and should be deported if possible or denied services if not.

I have obviously simplified both arguments, but might we re-engage them and leave me out of it?

But I did!

You appear to have a personal monetary vested issue in abrogating the labor and immigration laws of the USA.You do not seem capable of clarity on the "issues" of illegal immigrants vs your own profit margins, clearly enhanced by the flouting of existant labor laws and exploiting illegal immigrants.

I am fully aware of "guest worker" laws regarding foreign farm workers.I am also aware of the attempts made by many legal migrant workers groups to enforce US fair labor laws.

You admitted your culpability when in a previous post, you proudly claimed you "hired" your field hands through an "agency" who you knew employed illegal aliens(slave labor).

God save us all if we are reduced to defending our own actions based on legal technicalities as compared with what we all know is the intent of law.

Did you pass that mirror yet?

Do you still think YOU, and people just like you, are not the issue?I submit you are not only deluded, you are a major part of the problem.You cloak your reasons for importing slave labor under the halo of "free" commerce.The rest of us are forced to pay for your ignorance and self-serving rationalisations.

Go back to your bar-B-que.Enjoy yourself and your rather unsavory lifestyle while you can.

Avoid mirrors at all cost!

but might we re-engage them and leave me out of it?

You're the one bragging about hiring slave labor. It's people like you in Mexico who are the reason for 80% being "huddled masses". Maybe if your type paid decent wages back home there wouldn't be 20 million illegals fleeing their homeland. The upper class in Mexico should be very very ashamed and they should be ashamed when they come here too.

Fitz, give it up.RainDog obviously has a vested self-interest in protecting his personal self-interest at the expense of all legal citizens

Yes I can see that ---he's getting rich, and to his type that's ALL that matters. Not the taxes the others must pay to subsidize his cheap labor ---but in reality just like in Mexico, that kind doesn't much care if their cheap labor gets health care or education or anything else. It's clear why Mexico and other hispanic cultures are a big unstable mess ---it's that attitude of the elites and we certainly don't need it here.

I do have passion, for the country, and state, I used to live in. Now, because of liberalism, PC, and illegal immigration, that country is being turned into a socialist cesspool. The illegal immigrants, instead of assimilating into American culture, are forcing us, by sheer numbers, to assimilate to theirs. If their culture was so great, we'd be breaking into their country, and not the other way around. I say that not caring where they are from, Asia, Mexico, South America. They are all riddled with socialist, corrupt, failing countries. With the help of well-meaning Americans like yourself, that is what we are becoming.

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