I "got into it" with a friend of mine last night who refused to believe that the illegals drive down wages. In fact, he claimed via "basic economics" that doing the right thing, and deporting these criminals, would actually LOWER wages and cause a massive depression. That massive price increases on everything from avocados to motels to restaurants would ruin us.

I pointed out to him the reality that the slaughterhous jobs all went up in pay, and were filled within 2 weeks. And that in reality anything in economics that is "false" or artificial is very, very dangerous.

But he just waved me off. After all, he's in business school, and said it was an inarguable fact.

While I certainly agree that we've gotten used to "artifically low" prices for certain things, from everything I can read, and devine, making things "right" would merely be uncomfortable. At the most. But I'd be interested in opinions here...