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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ever seen the movie "A Day without a Mexican"? I think illegal immigrants to a large extent, and recent immigrants legal or otherwise, are the foundation of our way of life. They build our homes, prepare and serve our food, deliver our goods, install and fix our appliances, babysit our children and clean up after us everywhere we go.

Without them, we would want to immigrate somewhere else.[/quote]

Or, without them Americans would do all of the jobs, just like they did before.  Only 4% of illegal immigrants do field work.  85% of construction workers are Americans.  We have a very high unemployment rate amongst the poor and uneducated that are directly competing with illegal immigrants.  We would be absolutely fine.[/quote]

When is the "before" you're talking about? When corporations imported Chinese and Irish to build the railroads? When the garment industry hired All The Young Eastern European Women? Or maybe when White people went to Africa and brought back slaves to work the fields?

Business has always favored the low-cost, low-accountability solution to labor concerns. If we were so concerned about providing nice jobs for Americans, we wouldn't be hiring undocumented immigrants for our menial work or moving our manufacturing sector abroad.

I agree that it would be nice if we could create jobs that unemployed Americans wanted, but let's not make up stories about the history of American labor.[/quote]

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