Posted on 05/30/2007 3:34:26 PM PDT by rellimpank
The argument that immigrants (particularly the illegal ones) are doing jobs that Americans won’t do it ludicrous. Even with our huge illegal alien problem, there are still regions of the country where few such aliens reside. So who does those jobs in those regions? Americans, that’s who.
If an area doesn’t have any illegals hanging around, does it mean they have no construction or landscaping work being performed there? No farming or mining? No factories?
Can any of the illegal alien supporters point us to a region of the country that is economically dying for lack of illegal alien labor?
When Ted Kennedy, George Bush, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal tell us that aliens are doing jobs Americans won’t do, what they really mean is that aliens are doing those jobs at pay scales lower than Americans would tolerate, without any worker protections, etc. Send the illegal aliens home and those jobs will still be done, it’ll just require the employer to pay out First World wages rather than Third World wages.
Oh, and Dianne Feinstein would have to pay her gardener and limo driver a living wage.
Yep, that’s from the series by the late great John D. MacDonald.
What a great writer MacDonald was. When I was reading his books I wanted to meet him and then I found out he’d died a couple of years before I started reading him.
I liked how he always had a color in his titles.
His non-Travis McGee stuff was also terrific. For example, he wrote the book which was made into the movie Cape Fear two different times, and it was a hit both times.
BTTT
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