Free traders will never answer this... if immigrants are needed here...

[nadinbrzezinski]

81. How incredibly ignorant can you be

The people who are coming to the US are coming from places in Chiapas and Oaxaca. They are NOT factory workers, they are AGRICULTURAL workers.

You really have no clue of what you speak.

And what you do not get and apparently are too thick to understand, sorry for putting in those terms is that a job picking lettuce (which Americans DID NOT take this past summer), is not the same as a job laying brick, or a job putting down concrete, or a lab tech.

I could go on. Many of our unemployed are NOT manual workers, nor do they wish to be manual workers. Many of our illegals ARE manual workers and are not qualitfied to do anything else (not that bricklaying is not a skill, it is mind you).

The clash comes with a few technical fields, see IT. And in some construction jobs... the last one is truly regional.

But hey. If you cannot understand this, I can't help you.

If you think it is just 10 million workers, that is part of the problem... you really have no understanding of the mix of people who are unemployed, Mind you, many, not all, not even the majority, are also manual workers, but they refused to take the back breaking agricultural jobs that once were common for people when times were tough... and if you have ever worked in the fields, you will even understand why they refused. Moreover, even better pay than usually is paid to agricultural workers was not enough to retain them for the picking season.

Yup, you do not understand because you are not willing to dig into causes and reasons for this. You want simple solutions, Alas, none of this is simple.