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Old 01-08-2005, 09:55 AM   #12
Undertoad
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Econ 101 says that once the illegal workers are prohibited from crossing the border and it becomes harder to build things with legal workers, the salary of the legal workers will rise... thus cruelly increasing the incentive for both the illegals and the people who would hire them... and actually worsening the problem.

I doubt you can solve this one even with the military on the border.
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