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Originally Posted by mono tejano
first, your numbers are way off. The best conservative estimates are in the 11 to 12 million range, of whom roughly 3 to 4 million aren't even Latin Americans or Mexicans but come from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and, my favorite, Canada. Yep, no one knows for sure but it's estimated there may be more than 2 million Canadians living and working here illegally.
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Number of Illegal Immigrants Hits 12M
Second, farm workers aren't really the issue here. Yes, if we were to raise wages to the level that those here legally would willingly work in the fields, prices would increase drastically, which they are likely to do now anyway due to fuel costs. |
The "drastic" (any proof of "drastic"??) price increases would be way offset by the "hidden" social costs american citizens pay for the illegal alien presence - free health care, free education, imprisonment costs (in california, 25% of the prisom population is illegals), etc.