Thread: Standing against illegal immigration isn’t ‘conservative,’ it’s American

Originally Posted by Jean

“I saw how employers were using illegal immigration for cheap labor and in some cases firing Americans so they could hire illegals who they could pay less and work harder,” Gov. Lamm recalls. “I saw the incredible flow of illegal aliens who crowded out American workers in construction, packing plants, the service industry, etc, many of whom were paid ‘off-books’ so we got no state income taxes from them. Saw how this was not ‘cheap’ labor except to the employer.

“Illegal immigration went from being single men who came and picked our crops and went home, to whole families who came and stayed, imposing incredible costs on our taxpayers. The medical costs and education costs were substantial as the employers externalized these expenses to the taxpayers.”

“It’s not 1900 anymore! We are no longer an empty continent looking for people to open the land,” he observes. “We have 23 million Americans looking for work! Have we repealed the laws of Supply and Demand? Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people. Immigration has given us a second underclass in the West, (the Hispanics) and 50 percent of their children don’t finish high school. How do we build a competitive 21st Century economy when our fastest growing demographic fails to graduate 50 percent of their kids from high school?”

Once in a while someone not only gets it right, but also gets right to the heart of the matter. Bravo to former Governor Lamm!

People who will not required to assimilate sneak into our country. Employers use these illegals to undercut Americans for jobs, then pass the costs of their illegal families onto American taxpayers. (Lamm might have added that the tax burden is being borne by a declining middle class.)

And we should want more of this nonsense?
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