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Thread #129030   Message #2907519
Posted By: Ron Davies
15-May-10 - 11:32 AM
Thread Name: BS: Arizona law on detaining illegal aliens
Subject: RE: BS: Arizona law on detaining illegal aliens
"All they want is cheap labor".   Correction, all the poster himself wants is cheap labor.   If he didn't want people paid less than minimum wage, he'd be for legalizing all the current illegal immigrants we now have.

Since, as we've pointed out more than once, the reason employers are able now to exploit them is that as illegals, they dare not report mistreatment of any kind--they'd be summarily deported.

If they were legal they could demand--and get---the wages legal citizens get--and would not be pushing down wages.

All workers would benefit.

So those who claim to support US workers and are not for legalizing illegal workers now here, are, in a word, hypocrites.

And anybody thinking that all the illegals should go "home" should start thinking, for a change. If you make that a requirement, not one will come out of the shadows.

It is also not "amnesty".   It would require them to learn English and they could have no criminal record except crimes associated with the act of illegal entry.

But some would rather whine about overpopulation-- a useful red herring-- than actually address the immigration issue.

And as I've also pointed out more than once, historically first generation immigrants have large families.   But as they get more education and prosperity, they realize that quality of life is better with smaller families. And act on that in succeeding generations. There is no reason to think it will be different with Mexicans coming to the US.

So extrapolation of large Hispanic families indefinitely into the future is another handy red flag to wave for propaganda fans and conspiracy theorists--but has no basis in fact.