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Originally Posted by Tempest
yeah.. Cause the brilliant republican base wants to throw all those illegal immigrants out so they stop taking the jobs americans want and need... Oh wait... Americans are too lazy for those jobs as has been proven by the tougher immigration laws that drove the illegals out of George and Alabama resulting in no one available to pick the crops and so they ended up rotting... But I guess for some people ideals/theories trumps reality.
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Well, if the farmers would pay Americans a living wage to work those fields they wouldn't have that problem. It's not just agricultural work where they're a problem though, building contractors love to hire illegal immigrants because they do backbreaking work for peanuts. Go on any scab construction site and you'll see the illegals working in the lesser skilled trades: Masons(concrete, stone), bricklayers, laborers, etc. You will never see an illegal electrician, tin-knocker(HVAC), or other skilled trades that require extensive apprenticeships, but nevertheless, they depress wages for everyone; at the same time they cost taxpayers billions of dollars a year in unreimbursed medical expenditures, state costs of incarceration, and schooling for their children.