(09-13-2017, 08:22 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: It's astounding that support for reinforcing our national borders is equated with racism and low intellect. I'm waiting for the national defense/white supremacy analogy.

Some people like cheap and available labor.   Other people want less competition from Mexicans.   It depends on where you are on the economic scale.   I would say, rich people would like having Mexican labor, while poor people would not like having Mexican labor.   People who employ laborers like having Mexican labor to compete with American citizens.  Of course, this is a total generalization.   

With all the reconstruction that is going to have to be done after these hurricanes, I would think it would be a lot easier to get it all done if we let in some Mexican labor.   Unless we want to pay $30 an hour for jobs that would normally be paid $12 an hour. I wouldn't want to have the choice of paying double the normal rate for a new roof, or watching it rain in the living room for the next 6 months.

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