Quote from thesharpone:
are you from pakistan or something?
no one blamed any immigrants, the term used is; illegal immigrants
there is a big difference between an immigrant and an illegal immigrant
Pakistan? that's a long way from here. I'm in Costa Rica, Central America.
Regarding Illegal immigrants:
Illegal immigrants are illegal simply because there's a law that puts that label on them. Most of them come seeking a job, just like any other immigrant. They don't pay taxes simply because they're not allowed to do so.
Such a law doesn't stop immigrants from traveling up north, it simply stops them from paying taxes.
The intention of the law was to stop immigration [or to limit it] in order to limit the supply of workers to factories and inflate wages... an economic imbalance was created.
Migratory flows [legal or illegal makes no difference] are the sustainable because there is a profit to be made both on demand and supply sides; from correcting the economic imbalance.
Workers from Mexico want higher wages than the Mexican companies pay, and industrials in the US want cheaper wages than US workers are willing to accept. Migratory flows will continue for as long as the imbalance persists and there is a profit to be made. This is because markets are ruled by natural laws and pay no regard to the laws of men.
The migratory flow has 2 parts. One that is dependent on workers and the other is dependent on industrials.
The migration of workers, that is relatively easy to contain, you can build a wall and get a few rednecks to watch it. This migratory flow attempts to correct the imbalance by increasing the supplying labor.
The second part of the migratory flow is dependent on companies that fly over the wall and go to where the immigrants are originating from, taking the jobs with them. This is known as outsourcing. As technology advances this becomes more difficult to contain, and more specialized and higher paying jobs are moved out. This trend started with factory jobs, that required little or no skill, but now the trend is moving towards knowledge creating jobs.
Neither of this 2 flows is going to stop as long as there is an imbalance. Imposing higher restrictions on the entry of immigrants and building higher walls, will only give strength to outsourcing. Limiting the ability of companies to outsource their services will only lead to companies incorporating offshore and further fiscal damage, or European companies getting ahead of the game as they're able to outsource while US companies can't.
