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The victims are the US legal workers whose wages are impacted by the influx. I think you are educated enough to see how it works. So for every illegal alien with a heartbreaking story you see, there's an equally heartbreaking story about a US citizen or a LEGAL immigrant who lost his job or is being paid a subhuman wage due to the competition they get from the illegal alien influx. So think about your friend Anthony, who was working as a roofer, lost his job, and now finds he has to take a job as a partime roofer making $7 an hour because the job site is full of illegal aliens willing to do the roofing for that wage. If those illegal roofers weren't there, he would be fetching $14 an hour, and would probably get his medical insurance and a little 401K. Or think about Mary, a college student who wanted to clean hotel rooms to help pay for college, and finds all those jobs are taken by illegals. It goes on and on. EVERY TIME you can show me a story of an illegal with a heartbreaking story, I can point to its mirror image, a US worker whose life has been shattered by the relentless import of low skill labor into the US, something the moneyed classes and the elites understand very well, and achieve by exploiting both the greed on the businessmen's side, and the "soft hearts" of the left wing which mindlessly pursures policies which actually stab the US worker in the back.
And this, my friend, is why you see so much conflict and resentment, and why there is a surge against democrats on the part of very low social level whites and others, who do understand their pocket books are being impacted. Of course, many of them also happen to be racists, but I've found that racism isn't so important when everybody gets to eat well. it's when you have competition for jobs and power that racial and social conflict arises.
Finally, the idea that America needs to allow in unskilled workers is silly. The value of the immigration system is to encourage people outside the USA to prepare themselves to be allowed to enter the USA. This encourages them to become educated, learn some english, and keep their criminal records clean. And the overwhelming majority of those who undertake to clean up their act don't migrate anyway, so this raises the performance levels in those economies. it's a virtous cycle.
And by the way, I'm also going to join a Jewish organization fighting for Palestinian human rights. It's time for change there too. :-)
You and I know very well empires fall, and the US is an empire which is doomed to fall sooner due to many ill conceived policies and laws, from the invasion of Iraq and the virulent militarism, to the aid for the Israeli regime, to the mindless spending on pork, the irrational immigration laws, the system skewed to help the rich get richer, the overly complex tax system, the terrible design of the national health care system, subsidies for ethanol (which are contrary to the good of the nation but favor a few), and on and on and on. As I said, I stand ready to become your UGUR BABA, and straighten you out. But my solutions are going to be harsh, I don't tend towards being maudlin or soft hearted, the EEUU is in trouble, and only focused and well designed solutions will work in time. otherwise, you guys are toast.
And it's not that I don't like gringos. Americans as a whole are insufferable, arrogant, and difficult to deal with, but once I run into them one to one, they are ok. And I already bought me property in the USA, as I am in the process of moving away from Venezuela. The neighbors are a little leery because I'm a brownskinned liberal from south america, but they seem to accept me somewhat, plus I don't spend a lot of time there, and I drive a nice car (they seem to focus a lot on whether one brings values up or down in the real estate). Eventually I'll have to join some sort of organization to try to make some change, but I assure you, I won't be joining La Raza or any of those left wing crazies who want to encourage illegal immigration,those people really turn my stomach, they are chavistas in the end, and I know first hand what chavism turns into.
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