illegals

"The question: Do immigrants and foreign guest workers lower the wages of Americans at the bottom end of the income scale?"

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a democrat, is arguing before the senate on a bill that would, according to him, lower wage rates because of an increase in foreign labor.

Argument:

“At a time when millions of Americans are working longer hours for low wages and have seen real cuts in their wages and benefits, this legislation would… bring millions of low-wage workers from other countries into the United States. If wages are already this low in Vermont and throughout the country, what happens when more and more people are forced to compete for these jobs?”

Counter-Argument:

“With an adjustable temporary worker visa, you adjust it to the needs at the moment — to the demand for labor. As your construction boom goes up and you need more labor, you have more visas,” Kyl told reporters. “As you go down and don’t need as many homes to be constructed, you don’t issue as many visas. So you have the market being able to work and the wages rising and falling based on market conditions, rather than an artificial glut of labor.”

Market conditions demand more labor...yea...more cheap labor. Not to sound completely liberal, but this is a tactic of the republicans to increase cheap labor. Screw the lower-class, screw domestic jobs. As long as the rich get richer, right?