Undocumented Aliens are NOT the cause of unemployment.

By John H. Webster

While these foreign workers will take some jobs, they are also customers that create other jobs. When they are willing to put in a good days work for a good days pay they are helping all of us.

While these foreign workers will take some jobs, jobs that mostly no one else really wants, they are also potential consumers. So they will take their wages and buy food and buy or rent homes. Literally all of their earned income will either be spent on goods and services or saved in banks. The money saved in banks will be invested creating more jobs. Even when those immigrants send money home eventually all that money makes it way back to buying goods from the USA.

What there is a real shortage of are freebie goodies and overpaid cushy jobs. So we don't want people coming across our borders in anticipation of receiving those. And we would be totally justified in denying those to them. But people who are willing to put in a good day's work for a decent wage, and who will then take some of that wage and pay taxes and buy goods and services from others, now that is something that helps all of us.

Unfortunately there is a Federal Agency, the INS, which is going around like a Mafia enforcer and ensuring, with threats of imprisonment and deportation, that companies only hire their people + i.e. Citizens. This last March a local man was sentenced to five years in Federal prison for committing the heinous crime of allowing one hundred undocumented aliens to work for a living. Now those hundred people are back asking for handouts.

This is an example of a Federal Agency enforcing Federal law, even when it totally violates our right to associate with, and employ, the people we wish to associate with.

The act of employment is simple a formalized act of Free Trade; I will do this for you (give you certificates that you can redeem for goods and services) if you will do this for me (do some work for me). If we cannot decide for ourselves who we will trade with, this is not a Free Country but a Dictatorship.

And whether we like it or not, we are in a Global Economy and we as a country have to compete. If we don't let cheap labor cross our borders to create products and services here, those jobs will leave our borders and go somewhere else. In a Free Country we can't force companies to employ our expensive labor force when it is their job to find the cheapest way to produce the products they sell.