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>>>>Well said, Alan. Very much in line with my views on all this. I do not believe that the vast majority of illegal immigrants are any threat to national security or even to job security. Clearly, though, some are and we ought to work harder at identifying those. We should find a way to regularize the rest.
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>>>>As for the future, anyone who wants to come here and work at a legal occupation to build a new life should be welcome. No quotas.
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>>>Then, I think I (for sure) and you (most likely) be out of the job very quickly. You know how many PhDs in software development and good command of English (in Russia, Bulgaria, and so on) are only wishing that your word would come true. They will come here and work for 1/10th of our wages and will do just as good of a job. They will bring their extended family who will immediately go to our public schools, nursing homes, with all kind of special education, transportation, fuel assistance, etc.
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>>Hey, Dmitry. Your name wasn't exactly on the manifest of "The Mayflower", was it! There's many a name on this forum that would have been out of place with the "Founding Fathers"
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>Terry;
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>Oh yes, the Mayflower. A group of religious who came to the shores of what later became the United States, due to religious persecution in Europe. The first thing they did was to persecute Catholics. Thus began our national heritage of hating someone for whatever reason.
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>The Separatists and Puritans were more afraid to lose their souls due to the presence of a Catholic, then their scalps to an Indian.
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>Try reading the book by Upton Sinclair "The Jungle". Although it was written about 100 years ago it gives a contemporary view of life in the United States! Perhaps things just have not changed that much. Cheap labor, owe your soul to the company store and wait for the next wave of workers to replace you because they will accept a lower wage.
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>Tom
Tom

I read The Jungle a few years ago. What a depressing book. It makes you wish there was another way of structuring things apart from full on capitalism or full on socialism.

Nick