What Cheek! What Brass!
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AP Top News at 2:00 p.m. EDT
ATLANTA (AP) - Tens of thousands of immigrants spilled into the streets of Atlanta and other cities Monday in a national day of action billed as a "campaign for immigrants' dignity." In North Carolina and Dallas, immigrant groups called for an economic boycott to show their financial impact. In Pittsburgh and other cities, protesters gathered at lawmakers' offices to make their voices heard as Congress considers immigration reforms......
One has to admire the gumption of people that will risk death by exposure in the desert, brave possible deportation and detention, tolerate low pay and miserable living conditions for the dubious joy of doing our scutwork. That many of these people are willing to actually appear "en masse" in public to demonstrate for "immigrant's dignity" is a source of amazement.
Proper respect is hereby given.
Now they need to leave.
It is commonly observed that illegals take jobs "Americans do not want". What these observers fail to do is complete the statement. Illegals take jobs "Americans do not want at the wage that employers are willing to pay." When there is a shortage of a commodity (in this case labor) the price tends to rise, when there is a surplus, the price declines. What is happening in the case of illegal immigration, is that government and business are colluding to keep the price of labor low by leaving the borders open and winking at the people that break our laws by working here.
I am not going to blame the immigrants...they are simply doing what makes sense to them, leaving their homeland and coming to a strange (and occasionally hostile) land to make what seems to them to be extravagant wages doing hard work.
I blame the American employers who ignore immigration law by hiring either undocumented or falsely documented workers, lured by the promise of a cheap labor supply. I blame the government that inadequately funds the departments that are responsible for detaining and deporting these people and punishing the employers.
There was a proposal in Congress to make people in the country illegally felons. I believe the focus of that proposal is flawed. What they need to do is make the meat packer, the concrete contractor, the lawn service owner and the lettuce farmer that uses this labor felons. Were that enforced, the migrants would stop coming, and we could have a legitimate debate in this country about what our real labor needs are. We could then create a program to allow workers in the country for a period, legally, to work in industries that have trouble filling jobs with Americans at a fair wage, rather than acknowledging the status quo and offering a blanket amnesty to both the immigrant and the employer who exploits this source of cheap labor.
AP Top News at 2:00 p.m. EDT
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One has to admire the gumption of people that will risk death by exposure in the desert, brave possible deportation and detention, tolerate low pay and miserable living conditions for the dubious joy of doing our scutwork. That many of these people are willing to actually appear "en masse" in public to demonstrate for "immigrant's dignity" is a source of amazement.
Proper respect is hereby given.
Now they need to leave.
It is commonly observed that illegals take jobs "Americans do not want". What these observers fail to do is complete the statement. Illegals take jobs "Americans do not want at the wage that employers are willing to pay." When there is a shortage of a commodity (in this case labor) the price tends to rise, when there is a surplus, the price declines. What is happening in the case of illegal immigration, is that government and business are colluding to keep the price of labor low by leaving the borders open and winking at the people that break our laws by working here.
I am not going to blame the immigrants...they are simply doing what makes sense to them, leaving their homeland and coming to a strange (and occasionally hostile) land to make what seems to them to be extravagant wages doing hard work.
I blame the American employers who ignore immigration law by hiring either undocumented or falsely documented workers, lured by the promise of a cheap labor supply. I blame the government that inadequately funds the departments that are responsible for detaining and deporting these people and punishing the employers.
There was a proposal in Congress to make people in the country illegally felons. I believe the focus of that proposal is flawed. What they need to do is make the meat packer, the concrete contractor, the lawn service owner and the lettuce farmer that uses this labor felons. Were that enforced, the migrants would stop coming, and we could have a legitimate debate in this country about what our real labor needs are. We could then create a program to allow workers in the country for a period, legally, to work in industries that have trouble filling jobs with Americans at a fair wage, rather than acknowledging the status quo and offering a blanket amnesty to both the immigrant and the employer who exploits this source of cheap labor.
posted by Drunkenrantz at 11:22 AM
1 Comments:
I know you like to disagree with me, but this is a very well-written post, and I can't help but to agree with you. The current lawa have to be observed, and Congress should stop trying to waste our time and money making new laws.
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