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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These arguments about immigrant labor keep ignoring the most obvious solution - limit the immigrant pool of workers by going after employers that hire them.

The only need filled by this ongoing debate is those of employers who want to keep wages and standards as low as possible.  Racism and xenophobia have always worked well as a way to get the workforce to agree to management's needs.

Tighten the borders.  I'm a liberal who can agree with that.  But raise standards and wages within the borders.

Why is that so hard?  Because the employers who buy policymakers at every level of government don't want to raise standards and wages.  It's that simple.

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why are the Democrats against eVerify??

answer that and you will understand why they abandoned the working class.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/make-e-verify-mandatory-when-hiring-and-that-will-help-stop-illegal-immigration-2016-11-02[/quote]

The answer is in the article you linked:

1) Employers who want to keep hiring illegal labor.  There are too many with lobbying power to push the levers of 
2) Politics.  As long as we can keep immigration an unsolvable solution, they can keep issue #1 as status quo.

Amnesty for people who are already here is essential to productivity and the economy.  The article gives passing mention to farming, but agribusiness would come to a painful and screeching halt if you made the majority of its laborers illegal tomorrow.  And if you made them legal, the law would also require that you adhere to the law on wages, occupational safety, and other laws that protect workers.

We can look to the coal industry for workers who just don't give a damn about any of that. If you say something about safety violations or the fact that you generally can't breathe, you're looking to become unemployed.  Outside of coal, the easiest and enormously successful way of accomplishing the feat of a workforce that will accept any abuse is finding a workforce that has no other choice.  Thus, illegal immigration goes on.[/quote]

amnesty for people here is democratic politics.  more votes.  a giant f you to the US workers to get more votes.

That is why Democrats will not accept eVerify.  They want amnesty to get 40 million more votes for democrats.[/quote]

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