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[chiggerbit]

...how do you think that minimum wage stayed static for so many years? Of course it's not an illegal immigration problem, it's an illegal employer problem. The problem is that Mexico is a plutocracy, with a small elite ruling class, a small middle class, and a huge poverty class. And OUR employers want the same thing here. Meanwhile, Mexico's plutocracy isn't working so well, lots of political unrest, so their huge block of unemployed "excess" is pushed off on the US, into the welcoming arms of miserly US employers. Michael Parenti calls this the third-worldization of the US. Trust me, if there weren't any jobs for them here, there would be drastically fewer making the try. Do you suppose that last election in Mexico would have come off the same if all those illegal Mexican immigrants had still been at home and still unemployed?

OF course, the Repuglies will manage to talk out of both sides of their mouths, with Bush saying sweet nothings in the immigrants ears, while the other conservative Repuglies talk mean, promote hate. And the Dems in Congress will giddily jump in on the side of the immigrants, not realizing what the dynamics really are, or that their position is going to bite them in the butt. I can't believe that there are any Dem politicians going along with fining these impoverished people $5000. The fines should be on the employers, where it belongs.

If Greenspan were asked and IF he were honest, he would probably have to admit that part of his plan to keep down inflation was put on the backs of illegal immigrant workers.

Anybody have any figures on what the numbers were back in 2000 of those here illegally and what they are believed to be today?