(January 8, 2019 at 11:46 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Letting in little Manuel from Mexico looks good on a newsreel. But it also means that many blacks and hispanics who are dreaming of a fair wage for an honest day's work are very unlikely to see those dreams fulfilled.
Except that's not quite the case in practice. Remember how states are the laboratories of democracy? Alabama HB 56 is expected to shrink the state's economy by 6%. Farmers can't get people to perform labor at the wages they can pay. It's not that Americans are missing out on jobs, they are literally unwilling to do some jobs.
Also, the net positive of immigrants in a community living, paying rent, and spending money are far more than the cost in jobs. Again, I'm all for immigration laws, but we've gone too far towards the side where there's joyful glee of punishing people for doing what any of us would do.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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