It's not okay for non-legals to be in the country PERIOD.
People who are okay with it simply have not thought it through and that
includes LEGAL Hispanics.
It's called the law of supply and demand.
More supply and a stable demand means LOWER wages.
A friend of mine used to be a carpenter in California making decent wages.
When he was undercut by illegal labor, he had to leave the state to make a
living wage.
It's great for contractors and does lower the price somewhat for
consumers, but in the end you pay a little less in exchange for a shrinking middle
class and lower blue collar wages.
So, it's a trade off, for sure, and if you are a blue collar worker who is
legal, it sucks. If you are a contractor it's great. But not so great when
your competitors use illegal labor too.
Bottom line, if this continues you will wake up in a third world country
one morning and wonder how it happened.
Meanwhile, our manufacturing jobs are being shipped overseas-and now our
professional jobs too. Engineering firms in the USA now use off-shored talent
to underbid domestic jobs.
None of this is good unless you are a corporate CEO.
Making this a racial issue is just what the people who profit from this are
doing and many people are falling for it. I hope you are not one of them.
Become informed.
BCS
In a message dated 3/30/2011 7:41:15 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
nembree@rogers.com writes:
I would prefer that a legal U.S. citizen win. Beyond that, I have no
> preferences.
That's easy to ensure - don't allow non legal U.S. citizens to play.
Or, is it your position that it's OK for non legals to play (and
contribute to the jackpot) - as long as they don't have the nerve to win now and
then?
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