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"Illegal" aliens, the name after all answers the entire question to all those who hold compassion towards those that are. I am not a heartless man, and I do have compassion for my fellow man(that includes all mankind) But allowing those that are in the country illegally to remain here insults and belittles all of the immigrants that have come to this country and followed all of the legalities and some even going so far as becoming citizens. If just anyone can walk into the country and have the same rights and priviledges for free what does all the commitment and hard work the legal immigrants have done mean?
What would happen if they were all gone? The jobs they are doing are jobs that the lower income and even middle income people are doing or are looking to do. ICE raided a place, and forgive me because at the moment I can't remember what business or where, I think it may have been a butcher type business or something, but they arrested hundreds of illegal immigrants from this business and by the end of the week legal citizens and immigrants were lined up around the corner looking for work. So the theory that there won't be anyone to do the work I think may be an overly used scare tactic. And if you follow the deportation of the illegal immigrants with a workable immigrant worker program of some type then you will still have immigrants working, they'll just be legal to do so. U.S. Sugar Inc. every year sponsors hundreds of immigrants from other countries such as Haiti to come and work the sugar cane fields. Other businesses do the same so why can't all businesses practice legal and ethical practices?
The other side of the coin, illegal immigrants working for companies or individuals also lends itself to the likely hood that in some if not many cases you will end up with what the regular worker or human being for that matter would find as unacceptable working conditions. Overly demanding hours and lower than reasonable pay for the jobs being asked to be performed. And since the workers are Illegal immigrants they are to afraid to ask for help or to blow the whistle on injustices.
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