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What?
Now we must avoid mechanizing industries that employ illegal aliens to prevent more illegal aliens from coming?
I work in an industry that is heavily reliant on illegal labor and, seriously, one of my motivators is to simply change the game on illegal immigration so it is simply not an issue. I will do this by automating tasks they now do. Quality will be higher; more Americans will be employed in regular work that can pay enough for them to participate in our society. As much as I feel for aliens and the conditions in their home country, my primary goal - and every American's - needs to be to reduce the number of people that can lay claim to portions of others' income under our current system of law. That is, people at certain levels of income can, through the government, lay claim to part of my income for their food stamps. Wouldn't they - and everyone here legally - be better off with more self-sustaining citizens? Isn't that how they can participate in democracy as equals, instead of as wards of the state? Doesn't this teach responsibility and increase self worth, which children of these former wards can see?
