Tom Lehman wrote:
> We may need to put the brakes on immigration today?
Tom, the core here may get lost in the argumentation around it.
What if "we" *cannot* (are not able to)? What if the immigration is going to continue whatever anyone tries to do about it?
The question then becomes, "Given the (unchangeable) fact of a large stream of immigrants (mostly illegal), how is U.S. labor to react?"
If that is the case, then *any* efforts (futile) to stop or slow down that stream of immigration will be, *in fact*, whatever may be the intention, an attack on fellow citizens. (I equate permanent resident with citizen here.) A very famous observation comes poignantly in to play: "Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted by the past." I am suggesting that any anti-immigration policy on the part of labor ignores this principle.
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