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We keep hearing that McFly wants an immigration policy to match workers with businesses to fill jobs that 'no American wants to do'. I wonder why 'no American wants to do' those jobs? I doubt its because they 'hard' or 'dangerous'. Construction work is hard (and sometimes, dangerous). Police work is seriously dangerous. So is working on power lines, or window washing.

Could it be that the industries we're discussing here aren't interested in paying a decent living wage? Yes, the immigrants who accept those jobs do have lives, of a sort. But it's easy to justify the living standards of the typical illegal immigrant as acceptible when they are quite likely 100 times better than they used to be elsewhere, yet hardly what some of the poorest Americans are used to. And many are sending a goodly portion of what they earn home ($45Bn/yr at last tally). $45 Billion in untaxed wages (that doesn't include the portion of their wages that they keep to subsist on).

In order to pay an American to do the job, the price of the product or service would no doubt increase. You'd have to pay payroll taxes on legal immigrants and Americans alike. Americans would probably want benefits, like insurance, or at least be entitled to workman's comp for injuries that assuredly happen in these less desirable or more hazardous jobs. The people who own and run those same businesses price their products and services according to a profit margin that supports their overhead (of which their 'income' is a goodly part of). So, if they're entitled to a decent living standard, why isn't an American who could fill the job that supports that industry? I think the answer is obvious.

Americans aren't afraid of hard work. This country was built on hard labor, and as often commented upon in the media, the U.S. workforce takes fewer vacations and works longer hours than almost any other culture on the planet. Granted, some of those traits could be being fostered through dropping wages and benefits, forcing more work for the same pay, just to get by on. Still, all Americans want is a decent living wage. Which they're not going to get so long as McFly keeps trying to provide farmers and manfacturers with a cheap, disposable labor force.

As for criminalizing illegal immigration, I suggest we might take a lesson from our 'Good Neighbors'. Try moving into one of their countries illegally. They'll throw you in jail, *maybe* let you talk to the U.S. consulate, possibly hold you for ransom (euphemistically referred to as 'bail'), and feed you just enough to keep you alive (heaven forbid you should be a financial burden to the country as a foreign prisoner after all, eh?)

These thoughts aren't based on 'fear mongering'. You don't hear me talking about the terrorist threat from South America. You do hear me talking about preserving American culture, and American jobs. You do hear me talking about U.S. sovereignty. Instead of raising the standard of living in other countries, we're being forced to lower ours to match theirs, economically. I'm sorry if they haven't their own World War II-style industry to prop up their economic revolution.

Regardless of whether or not we're the last superpower, we can't 'save the world', if we can't save ourselves.

So long as U.S. Administrations and WTO agreements continue to undermine American jobs by 'levelling' trade in favor of third world countries with lower standards of living that leverage virtual slave labor forces for pennies a day, theoretically forcing the remaining American industries to find (import) labor willing to work on the same playing field for similar-type wages, America will continue on its head-long rush towards becoming a second-rate, third world country itself.

Bets anyone??