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In reply to the discussion: Obama BOXES IN GOP On Immigration: 'Only One Thing' Will Stop EXECUTIVE ORDER [View all]ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)will absolutely replace other documented and Latin American citizens once those undocumented workers get documented and covered under the system. They will no longer be shadow people moving outside the system, but will be within the system being paid above the table. Once their wages are known by the sytem they will be sought out by those who will replace documented workers and take the difference in pay as revenue. This will affect California, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico greatly.
I understand the system well; I'm an accountant who has done payroll for warehouses with both documented and undocumented workers. It was bad enough when I was there; I imagine it's even worse now. So you encourage the pathway to citizenship because it will increase the voting for a particular party? Immigration is supposed to be a system separate from voting--not intertwined one dependent on the other.