The Immigration Protests

Originally Posted by Watts

That's the problem. Americans will do any job for a decent and fair wage. Illegals reduce our labor wages by increasing the labor pool, and it fundamentally changes the equation. Hence, most Americans are against illegal immigration.

For instance, I've seen figures that's stated there's about eight million unemployed Americans right now. I've also seen figures that state there's up to fifteen million illegals in our country. So if all the illegals were removed from this country it'd be easy to assume that.

a) We'd have no unemployed Americans.
b) Since demand for workers is so high, wages/benefits will also be high. In fact I bet every sixteen year old could get a decent paying job. (By decent I mean above the current minimum wage)

Bottom line, Mexico's problems are the result of their corrupt and inadept oligarchy. They need to deal with their problems there, instead of coming here to create even more problems for the average American.

Not necessarily the actual case. Given that unemployement rates will probably go down a bundle, the outsourcing phenomenon has taken tremendous stride recently. Companies might not employ illegal immigrants here but rather pay for cheap labor elsewhere. This act might encourage US companies not to employ locally since wage rates are higher but outsource instead.

Jam it back in, in the dark.