Thread: WE'RE RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED

Several important sectors of the economy depend heavily on low-wage workers, many of whom are in the United States illegally.

A typical false statement used by OBL apologists. As Mark Krikorian from the CIS noted in a recent editorial:

"The Census Bureau groups all jobs in the country into 473 categories, and in 2003-2004, only three small categories had even the tiniest majority of immigrant workers, legal and illegal. The large majority of America's taxi drivers, housekeepers, janitors, dishwashers, landscapers and construction laborers are native-born Americans.

More generally, the supporters of illegal immigration claim that low-skilled labor is a precious resource, like oil, and because we're running out of it at home, we have to import it from abroad. This, too, is false. On the contrary, immigration (legal and illegal) is actually crowding low-skilled Americans out of the labor market altogether. During the first half of this decade, the highest five-year period of immigration in our history, the percentage of working-age, native-born Americans without a high school degree who were in the labor force fell from 59 percent to 56 percent, and for those with only a high school degree, participation in the labor force fell from 78 percent to 75 percent. And American teenagers (aged 15 to 17) took an even bigger hit, seeing their labor force participation fall from 30 percent in 2000 to 24 percent in 2005."

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Call the Senate: NO AgJOBS or Dream Act Amnesties !

We need to stand up and start boycotting things made by slave/illegal labor.
It's not worth it in the long run
If your house is built by someone who uses illegal labor what else has he cut corners on?
We all know about the contaminated food so lets not go there.
I for one would like to know that the person cleaning my name isn't stealing my identity for her illegal cousin while I am out.