Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
I hope your being sarcastic. I work two jobs minimum wage. I would be out on the streets if I lost either one; so if a Mexican came and too my place because he was willing to work for less than minimum, I'd go find him and kill him. No joke.
The first senence was me being serious, the second was sarcasm. Your nation was built (and mine as well to be fair) on the backs of the working class. But when a myriad of socialist legislation (minimum wage, safety regulations, retirement, benefits, child labour proebition) was passed not just in north america but western europe over time it began to make employing citizens unprofitable or just too expensive to be worth it. That is why that now a good deal lower end jobs are part time so you don't need to give benefits. Now you can get 3 illegal Mexicans for the same price as 1 legal immigrant or US citizen. As cost benefit ratios go that's a very good one. You don't have to pay the illegals minimum wage you don't have give them any kind of benefits and you can treat them however you want as if they complain you can report them to INS. The only real way to reduce (stopping it is impossible) illegal immigration is to either lower the US standard of living to be akin to Mexico or raise Mexicos to be comporable to the US.