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Originally Posted by KRL
You want to get rid of 12 Million hard workers?
I'd like to know who the hell else is going to go out on the farm in the hot sun with their back bent over all day long picking the fruits and vegetables we all love so much.
Or who is going to sit in sweat shops doing the sewing for this country's clothing manufacturers.
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Yes I would like to get rid of 12 million ILLEGAL aliens who are working ILLEGALLY under the table and NOT paying U.S. taxes on their income.
There are lots of people who will work on a farm picking vegetables, IF the pay is adequate and the job is reasonably safe.
Saying you need illegal aliens because you can't get Americans to work for slave wages and in unsafe working conditions is like saying we should legalize crack because it keeps crack dealers off of welfare.
Also your line about the sweatshops where they sew clothes is inacurrate. Those jobs got moved out of this country a long time ago.
The bottom line is big business can't get Americans to work for slave wages and in slave conditions. So rather than raising wages and improving working conditions they BREAK THE LAW by hiring illegals.
Since they have this president in their back pocket, they're using him to try and make what they're already doing legal.
We currently have an unemployment rate of over 5%. That number doesn't include what the labor department calls "discouraged workers" who have been unemployed for a very long period of time.
Once our economy reaches "full employment" and we have a real "labor shortage" then I have no problem with the government opening up more spots for LEGAL IMMIGRANTS to move here and fill those positions.