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Undemcided Donating Member (225 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 07:20 PM
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9. Cheap labour
Illegals push down wages for legal immigrants and take away many entry-level gigs for people. The old “but who will pick our lettuce?” line won’t cut it. If there wasn’t cheap labour that was there to be exploited we would have to come up with other answers. Someone, somewhere, would have the solution. Maybe cheaper robotic solutions would be developed?

Cotton used to be picked by hand and I’ll bet some slave owners used to say ““but who will pick our cotton?”. Well in 1944 the first commercial cotton picker was developed.

PS: I’ll wait for the follow-up to the film, which will be titled “A DAY WITHOUT A WHITEY”. Should be interesting.
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