Immigration hysteria

[natedogg]

Right wing border security fanatics often disguise their racism by supporting tough borders, that much is true. But, you can't have a nation without borders. And our borders are more important now that mad bombers are trying to get in. Yes, I know, "we're fighting the terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them here". Regardless, border security *is* a problem. We should actively enforce our borders ... but NOT to protect Americans from cheap labor.

The minimum wage law, payroll tax, and witholding law should be immediately repealed. These burdens provide the main advantage to illegal immigrants seeking work. By working for money under the table, they can work for as much as 30% less for the *same take home pay!*.

The answer to this problem is *not* to restrict cheap labor. Minimim wages, and the onerous employer requirements kill jobs for the lowest skilled americans. In fact, Americans with slightly better skill sets may be unemployable while illegals who are getting paid less per hour take home MORE at a lower cost to the employer. So the employer can pay more per hour to a lower-skilled illegal worker because his real cost of hiring the more-skilled american worker is too high.

We need to close the borders, for many legimiate reasons, but allow more legal immigrants and eliminate the burdens that hurt the lowest skilled, lowest paid workers so that they can compete on even footing with unskilled immigrant labor.

natedogg