From: John Beckett 

Robert Comer  wrote in message
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> For me it's the rewarding of illegal behavior, but I'm sure there are
> some others that are prejudice like that.  Another thing the we don't
> like is that it's obviously a play by big business to hire cheaper
> workers, thus putting both Americans out of work and lowering the
> wages of everyone else.

I'm not questioning you personally, but I have seen the above pov presented
briefly in the media. My problem is that for everything I hear, there is an
obvious follow-up question which the media I see never deals with.

Sure, it is obvious even over here that a whole bunch of nudge-nudge has
been going on over many years to allow entry for enough illegals to provide
cheap workers. But if the 12 million were regularised in some way (say they
became citizens), those people would, over a few years, STOP being
available for cheap work exploitation. Wouldn't that be a good step towards
not lowering general wages?

Actually, in formulating my question, I might have struck the answer. So
long as there are 12 million illegals, there is a pool of workers in the US
to be exploited for cheap work. If that pool were cleaned up, it is
inevitable that millions more would enter to take advantage of the
available habitat.

Provisional conclusion: The US needs the pool of 12 million to be illegal
so it is not easy for new illegals to join them?

John

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