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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	something of interest
	Date:	6/9/2009 8:51:39 AM

Hound: I have heard this line of reasoning before and I guess the question that always comes to my mind is how did this work get done before we had millions of illegals? I know part of the answer was that me and my friends made money in the summer mowing lawns. I am inundated with high school age kids looking for work. I really believe that what has happened is that illegals displaced the Americans that used to do these jobs, initially at much lower labor costs. While I still think there is a lot of cost competition (as we hear from businesses that rely on illegals) it is not so much the driver today as Americans have given up on those kind of jobs.

Unlike a lot of others that oppose illegal immigration I am of the view that there are too many to simply round them up and send them back. We need to create an incentive for them to go back to Mexico or more to the point, remove all the incentives for them to stay. And the number one incentive is to work and send dollars back south. The second incentive is conferring citizenship on babies of illegals born in the U.S. Even Mexico doesn't do that! WIth the current economic climate, particularly with the housing industry, that is already happening. However, unless we secure our borders and eliminate automatic citizenship they will simply come back when the economy recovers.

But as long as politicians want to pander for votes (and I put Bush and McCain in this group) we will never get meaningful enforcement of our borders and legal immigrants will continue to be rationed.