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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a 10%+ unemployment rate. Trust me, Americans want the jobs, but who is going to hire an American FOR the job. They can get illegals much cheaper.[/quote]

In my industry we go MONTHS without finding qualified candidates for our jobs.  We are settling left and right.  In order to get a foreign worker in, we spend thousands of dollars on legal just to do it.  So trust me, Americans are not often enough stepping up to be qualified for the jobs.

And no one has answered the question of Alabama.  When all those illegals left, where were the unemployed masses who went to get their jobs?  Uh, nobody!

AAnd what about farm work.  Where are the masses of unemployed people in the West who should be tying up their bindles and migrating out to the farms like in the old days?  They are watching Real Housewives, while the jobs go unfilled.  Here is what happened when Americans get offered these jobs:

http://www.economist.com/node/17722932

Here is a guy who hired American workers for field work at $10.50 an hour.  They started quitting by lunchtime:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/us/farmers-strain-to-hire-american-workers-in-place-of-migrant-labor.html

Here is the bottom line for the Republican party.  Each of the Presidents from your big agricultural states ([b]Reagan, Bush, and Bush[/b]) has proposed some sort of Amnesty or guest worker program.  There is a reason for that.  [b]Listen to your own people.[/b]

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