Who stands to gain by allowing illegals to enter and remain in the U.S.? The most obvious are corporations. By hiring low-waged illegals they force the acceptable wage rate lower, and their resulting profits higher. The second group that profits by hiring illegals are large vegetable and fruit farms. They’re too cheap to invest in crop picking machines, and they don’t have to if they can hire people at below poverty wages.
Lawmakers comprise the third group that favors amnesty for illegals. This group includes two sub-groups. The first is those who think more of their corporate sponsors than they do the American workers. I think of people like Harry Reid and Rick Santorum when I think of this sub-group. The other is those who stand to gain most from the influx of potential new voters in the 2006 or 2008 elections. That could be a significant help to people like Hillary Clinton or John McCain. In fact, I can think of no Congressman or bureaucrat that truly cares about the American worker that is in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens or any form of guest worker program.
Who loses? The American worker who pays for the welfare, free health care, free education, free child and family services, and the costs of trials and incarceration of illegals when they commit crimes.
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