BOURDAIN's stunning love letter to Mexico and Mexicans

[MellowDem]

115. I'm sick of the "work Americans won't do" lie...

And it's spouted by people on the left all the time.

The truth of the matter is, illegal immigration is allowed because businesses profit from it. Illegal immigration does depress wages in the fields they take.

Yes, Americans don't want to do work that pays next to nothing. Illegal immigration insures those jobs will pay less and less or fail to keep pace with the rest of the legal job market. Illegal immigration has been critical to Reaganomics. It's illegal labor that gets around all of the regulations set in place to protect worker's rights.

Of course Americans do the jobs illegal immigrants do, just for more pay and where there isn't a huge market for illegal labor.

I don't take aim at illegal immigrants themselves for all this. But illegal immigration has not been good for the US, it has been good for businesses, and continues to be good for businesses, at the expense of legal workers. Those are the facts. It has helped to widen the income and wealth gaps in society. And continues to do so.

Bourdain comes across, as so many on the left do, as defending a practice that destroys good paying American labor and supports free-market Reaganomics for the sake of defending immigrants from bigots. Well, you don't have to defend this terrible practice to defend illegal immigrants and promote them being treated humanely.