Immigration Reform A Very Cloudy Issue

[The_Voice_of_Reason]

11. More compassion?

What about our own huddled starving masses? 58.7 percent of Americans work at or near minimum, their toils creating/providing the goods/services that create the wealth for the one percent. Like it or not, it is estimated that undocumented workers lower the wage base (for the poorest in the work force) by some 200 plus Billion Dollars a year. We have an unchecked flow of cheap labor into America because the 1-10 percent in the top tier want exactly that...a cheap labor force.

I do not wish harm on those who have illegally come to America hoping for a better life, but I also am smart enough to know that if we cut off the jobs magnet that A) those coming here unlawfully looking for work will stop coming, and B) a shrinking of the available work force will leave employers with no choice but to pay higher wages, or close the doors to their business. If the best Waffle House can do is minimum wage, instead of a livable wage, let them close their doors.

It always amazes me how some in this world are all for compassion and humanity, even if said compassion and humanity is actually hurting their own neighbors and countrymen/women. Like I have said in this thread, all for immigration reform, all for finding a fair pathway to citizenship, but think it a fools folly to simple ignore those who have been hurt gravely through unchecked unlawful immigration...and I blame CORPORATE AMERICA, not those who have come here for that reality.