"Chris" wrote in message
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Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"C Kingsbury" wrote in message
ink.net...

more of. But let's get unemployment in the inner cities down a bit
before
we
let more in, don't you think?



If there are no jobs for these uneducated, unskilled workers, why do
they
continue to come here?


They find jobs because they're willing to work at very low wages. The result
of this is to depress wages in this segment of the labor market. Without
illegal immigrants, lots of employers would have to offer higher wages to
get lazy American citizens to come work for them. With jobs available at
higher wages, fewer uneductaed, unskilled Americans will choose welfare
and/or crime as their primary means of employment.

-cwk.