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Originally Posted by kane
The answer is simple - money.
The agriculture, construction, and food processing industries in this country lean heavily on illegal immigrant labor. I grew up in a small town that had a lot of farms nearby. My senior year of high school I worked at a small convenience store. During the spring and summer months we had what everyone referred to as "The Mexican Rush" at the store. Between 3-6pm every day we would get several buses full of migrant workers coming in from the fields. If the government actually put the hammer down on these industries they would be forced to hire Americans for these jobs and those people would want a hell of a lot more money so the cost of houses and food would go up.
The presidents find themselves in a tough spot. If they go after these industries they will be accused of being anti-business/socialist. If they don't they are pro-illegal immigration. Most of them choose to strike a position that lands them in the area where they go after some groups of illegals, but they mostly turn a blind eye on the businesses that are providing them the very opportunity they are coming here to seek.
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You put a great case for
legal migrants and said nothing about
illegal migration. Keep up the good work.
Of course you did put a great case for the real reason for illegal migration. Keeping wages in all low skilled jobs low. Of course that argument doesn't hold water. Raising wages will produce more taxes, a better standard of living, reduce debt, ease housing. In crop harvesting a better solution is automation, in building this was a job that Americans were eager to do as it paid well, now not so. Farming is the strangest sector, without access to very cheap labour the option is to automate. Making human labour unnecessary. Australia has a very strict migration policy and does well farming.
Food processing, did you mean working in a slaughter house? That can be done by legal migrants, which can be turned on and off to suit needs. Also it can stipulate who is allowed in. Workers only on a short term visa so any children born to those workers can return with their parents.