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Originally Posted by eccieuser9500
I'm with Tiny. There is no way to know who "they" are that are not given the right to work.
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Eccieuser, What some of our fellow board members fail to appreciate is what the effect on the U.S. economy would be of depriving all illegal immigrants of jobs. They're 5% of the labor force. Given we're at full employment, we'd have labor shortages. Things wouldn't get done. There would be upward pressure on prices, especially if combined with the higher tariffs that Trump's proposing to impose.
I would strongly prefer a guest worker program to what we have now. Make legals out of illegals, without bestowing citizenship on them. Give people from Cuba and Venezuela long term visas, and hopefully in 10 years or so their countries won't be so fucked up. My belief from extensive conversations with Cuban strippers is that they'd just as soon or rather live in Havana as the U.S., if they had money, and if Cuba weren't currently undergoing extreme economic hardship. I imagine many would like to make money in the USA and retire back to their countries.
Guest worker programs have worked out well for places like the United Arab Emirates and Singapore. It's been a win-win for those countries and the Indians and others that work there. It would work here too.
And it's not just the economy. What would Un Dia sin Mexicanos be like? Well, there's a movie about that and it's not pretty. It's kind of like War of the Worlds, only it doesn't have a happy ending:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYJcfhxMkrQ