Thursday, August 19, 2004

When you see immigrants delivering mail, working as construction contracters carpenters, and working as garbagemen, you KNOW the argument that they only do jobs no one else will do, is bogus. I've been saying this for years and even my fellow conservatives fell on the other side of the fence. But, finally, after it's too late of course, evidence is trickling in. This is always what happens. Liberal policies are implimented and by the time the consequences become plain for all to see, it has been long enough for people to deny responsibility for supporting the policy and the effects are irreversable (S.S.I. fund? etc)

In other words, Hispanic dropouts and _Asian college grads_ (http://www.vdare.com/letters/tl_060601.htm) increasingly dominate the foreign-born workforce. What are the implications for native workers? The rule of thumb is that an 10 percent increase in the labor supply diminishes the wages of native-born workers by 3.5 percent. [See George Borjas, _The Labor Demand Curve Is Downward Sloping"_ (http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~.GBorjas.Academic.Ksg/Papers/w9755.pdf) May 2003]

and:

http://www.vdare.com/fulford/usa_today.htm

Another trend is that, instead of learning English themselves, immigrants are forcing us to learn their language and make all documents in their language as well. Why didn't my great-grandparents insist on foisting Norwegian on us? Because it's rude to not adapt to the culture you live in and they knew it. Oh, and they were polite enough to care about what was rude or not.

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