Competition for Jobs
The Pew Hispanic Center research shows Americans and legal immigrants hold the majority of jobs facing competition from illegal workers in agriculture, cleaning, construction and food preparation. The restaurant lobby complains about a worker shortage, but their wages have been falling. Simple economics dictate that if there is a true worker shortage, wages rise. Over the last five years, restaurant wages have been at best stagnant, and fast food wages have tumbled almost 4 percent.
Falling wages are a clear economic signal of too many workers, not too few. Legalizing illegal laborers will drive down wages even more. As immigration swelled the labor force the wages of Americans without a high school diploma falls twice as much. Research finds that a guest worker program for illegals will hurt legal immigrants and less educated American workers the most.
Bush and many in Congress don’t mention the falling real wages and economic costs of illegal immigration. Many politicians are representing the interests of illegal immigrants and business, but not their constituents.
The victims of illegal immigration are those Americans working at the lowest end of the wage scale, and middle class workers, who are providing, through their tax dollars, for the social services, health care, education, for illegal immigrants.
This has become a issue, because it divides the middle class against the lower middle class that are just trying to make it. We're seeing the demise of the middle class in America, which is unhealthy. Historically, it’s been the middle class, who put up the fight, which demanded health care, minimum wage, no child labor, the right to vote for women, and the abolishing of sharecropping.
A comprehensive immigration policy must start with securing our borders. However, a path to eventual citizenship could start with illegal immigrants volunteering for a special branch of our military, which would be stationed outside the contiguous United States. These illegal immigrants would earn citizenship after five years of honorable military service.
In 1954, I visited the Sidi-Bel-Abbes the home base of the French Foreign Legion, near Oran, Algeria. Many of the Legionaries were professional soldiers and former members of Hitler’s army. Most had recently seen combat in IndoChina, which was France’s Vietnam.
The Bush regime provides taxpayer money to employ Blackwater USA, a secretive private military of tens of thousands of mercenaries in Iraq. An illegal immigrant version of the Foreign Legion would help solve our immigration and recruitment problems and be much less expensive than Blackwater USA.
Falling wages are a clear economic signal of too many workers, not too few. Legalizing illegal laborers will drive down wages even more. As immigration swelled the labor force the wages of Americans without a high school diploma falls twice as much. Research finds that a guest worker program for illegals will hurt legal immigrants and less educated American workers the most.
Bush and many in Congress don’t mention the falling real wages and economic costs of illegal immigration. Many politicians are representing the interests of illegal immigrants and business, but not their constituents.
The victims of illegal immigration are those Americans working at the lowest end of the wage scale, and middle class workers, who are providing, through their tax dollars, for the social services, health care, education, for illegal immigrants.
This has become a issue, because it divides the middle class against the lower middle class that are just trying to make it. We're seeing the demise of the middle class in America, which is unhealthy. Historically, it’s been the middle class, who put up the fight, which demanded health care, minimum wage, no child labor, the right to vote for women, and the abolishing of sharecropping.
A comprehensive immigration policy must start with securing our borders. However, a path to eventual citizenship could start with illegal immigrants volunteering for a special branch of our military, which would be stationed outside the contiguous United States. These illegal immigrants would earn citizenship after five years of honorable military service.
In 1954, I visited the Sidi-Bel-Abbes the home base of the French Foreign Legion, near Oran, Algeria. Many of the Legionaries were professional soldiers and former members of Hitler’s army. Most had recently seen combat in IndoChina, which was France’s Vietnam.
The Bush regime provides taxpayer money to employ Blackwater USA, a secretive private military of tens of thousands of mercenaries in Iraq. An illegal immigrant version of the Foreign Legion would help solve our immigration and recruitment problems and be much less expensive than Blackwater USA.
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