Originally Posted by Lane

A lot of flawed arguments here.

The solution is neither to make ALL illegal immigrants legal, nor kicking them all out. No extreme measure is the proper way to go about this.

There IS a need for those workers. But the supply has probably just about reached or surpassed the demand. This is why the government is basically forced to deal with this now, and they have not done so before.

Securing the borders is more of an anti-terrorism issue than it is about immigration.

USA simply cannot afford deporting millions of people. It would literally mean causing many deaths and destroying families. Still, no matter what, some people will get kicked out, that's a given.

There will have to be a legal path for cheap workers to become legal. This path currently does not exist. It is simply missing from the immigration laws.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with immigrants taking jobs in the US. The problem is, it costs less to hire an illegal immigrant than it does to hire an American. At the end, the goal is to force all employers to pay the standard minimum wage or more for the immigrants, PLUS certain fees. This will work itself out, as it will cost less for the employer to hire a minimum wage american worker than it does to hire a minimum wage immigrant.

The government simply needs to figure out the best way to achive this goal. They know it for a fact, it will involve a process that will take years.


For instance I came to the US as an international student. After college I had to find a job to get my skilled-worker visa. But the catch was, I could not settle for a wage lower than industry averages, as the laws prohibited that. Plus, there were fees involved to get this visa. That means, I was NOT financially more desirable as an employee over an American.

The same thing will have to happen for non-skilled worker type of visas, which do not exist yet. This type of program will let American companies to hire minimum wage immigrants only when they have trouble finding and American worker to take the job instead.