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Condoning illegal
immigration creates a business climate in which unscrupulous operators
gain competitive advantage.
This hurts good-citizen businesses that obey the law.
Mass immigration
encourages the substitution of labor for capital investment and
innovation.
This moves us in the opposite direction of the American success story.
American society and
American business have been the envy of the world. We’ve made
economic choices that have turned American workers into high-spending
consumers. By
depressing wages and working conditions, illegal immigration disrupts
this “virtuous circle.”
The deteriorating effects
of mass immigration vastly outweigh the incremental increase in profits
that sometimes arise from the importation of more and more foreign
labor. When
you count the cost of congestion, sprawl, overcrowded schools, and
other quality-of-life measures, as well as higher tax burdens and a
burgeoning welfare state, the easy use of foreign labor is not worth it.
The hallmark of
American business has been a “social contract” with
workers.
America's workers have never been inclined toward a "workers' political
party" which would limit entrepreneurs’ profit and
investment. Business has shared productivity gains with the workers.
That “social contract,” however, is in danger of
breaking apart after two decades of stagnant wages in many occupational
sectors and increasing income disparity.
Lou
Dobbs Tonight
Matt
Hayes of FOX News' columns
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