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Originally Posted by hip hop bunny hop
Most illegals who've entered the USA in the past 10 years did so legally; they get work visas and simply overstay because we've no effective means of policing the interior in regards to this matter.
Further, we're already around 9% unemployment (officially) - which does not take into account those who've given up looking for employment and those who are underemployed. Along with these groups, the employed who have minimal skills would be harmed by open immigration.
Why? Because there'd be more people with low skill levels competing for the same number of jobs. This would depress wages which are marginally above the minimum wage & make getting an entry level job harder. This would a disproportionately negative impact on minority (especially NAM) communities, as they tend to be the least educated
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Firstly, most people who came over here legally on a visa are probably not untrained. If it were cheap to enter the country, there would be no illegal immigration.
Secondly, lllegalizing immigration has done nothing, at all, whatsoever from stopping people to come here illegally.
Thirdly, and what a racist narrow minded sheep fellow such as yourself will blatantly ignore, is the fact that unskilled immigrants will only take jobs from unskilled citizens because they don't need to be paid as much. You see, there's no logic in the concept that unskilled laborers would somehow take jobs from skilled laborers. Furthermore, if you legalized immigration, these unskilled laborers would have to adhere to minimum wage laws, therefore making them on equal competitive ground.