“The main reason unemployment is down in OK is the oil boom.”
Let me get this stratight. There’s an oil boom in Ok....doesn’t that mean they need employees? They seem to be doing just fine without the aliens, don’t they?
That's not the issue. The issue is whether the drop in unemployment is a result of the oil boom, the crackdown, or both.
Yep, while it is true that bringing in *legal* immigrants who have skills that are in demand is good for the economy (I don’t buy into the old zero-sum argument about jobs), most illegals are doing unskilled work that can be done by anyone or even by machines. There is no way they’d be missed by anyone other than the usual suspects who have an axe to grind.