[Moonman62]

The article states that employers are forced to increase wages...HELLO!

Market wages for Americans, and money that will stay in the local economy rather than going south of the border.

[OnRightOnLeftCoast]

= The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War =

Your tagline says it all.

So does the report, 'The High Cost of Cheap Labor'

And so does this:

[Gondring]

Market wages for Americans, and money that will stay in the local economy rather than going south of the border.

Local market wages for Americans.

It's a good start, but it's vitally important to realize that it doesn't all end at this point. Now, American companies are not as competitive on the global market. For those goods and services competing globally, we have to consider ways to increase American competitiveness.

After all, these employers found illegal immigrant workers a better deal than Americans--why wouldn't a German decide to buy from a company using non-American labor? Why should a company stay based in the US and pay much higher wages when it can go outside the borders and pay less for labor?

Let's not fall into the Dem trap of using a static model.