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Originally Posted by Flint
Because with globalization, it might be cheaper to get those workers back across the border, and into a sweat shop over there, than it is to pay them peanuts over here.
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I think it is actually cheaper to keep them here rather than spend the money to maintain the border with guards and fund the authorities that would round up the current illegals and send them home. If unfunded, it's massive misuse of important law enforcement officials. Perhaps the taxpayers would be willing to part with millions to both keep cheap labor out as well as deport the current workers?
...and what would happen, exactly, if we did away with this cheap source of labor? What if farms had to pay people minimum wage to pick produce? Would you be willing to fork over enough money each week for the difference it will cost you in food and services?
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Originally Posted by Flint
Either that, or the invasion of Iran is being planned while the TV-watching public is distracted by this artificially contentious immigration debate.
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Well, I'm not sure about that, but this certainly is a distraction. Why are we suddenly concerned now? Why are only the
workers being debated and not the
companies that both entice them here and hire them?
Yep. All politics with a thin streak of racism. Nothing more.