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Originally posted by Spanky
You have friends that live on the border? What do they do for a living?
I don't understand this fear of illegal immigration. Is this really a problem that should be at the top of our agenda? Almost everyone I know benefits almost daily from illegal immigration (cheaper food prices etc). And why are the illegal immigrants so harmful or dangerous? What is the crisis? All prior "dangerous immigrations" turned out to be beneficial. Do you think the US is better off today because we limited Irish, Southern European or Asian immigration at one time? It just seems to me that the people that are so concerned about illegal immigration just don't like having Mexicans around.
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I'm in a very different part of the country (upstate New York), yet I not infrequently hear people blaming all sorts of things on cheap immigrant labor. I happen to think labor unions and union wages are a good thing, but how is letting immigrants come into the country and work here, under our laws and with our protections, including minimum wage, more threatening than having the same people making car parts in a Mexican plant without the benefit of our labor laws and shipping the car parts over the border?
In today's world, I also just don't get the opposition to immigration either, even though I come at it from the other side of the aisle from you. I think these are people who are either expressing their inner xenophobe or who are fighting economic battles of the last century instead of this one.
