More on Immigration

Yet another issue that I have with Democrats over this whole immigration issue is - you guessed it - their hypocrisy. On the one hand, they like to complain about how American jobs are being "outsourced" to other countries. They also like to complain about trade deals that may hurt prices for American goods. But their stance on immigration would effectively do the same thing.
What good is it if we keep jobs in America, only to import low-skill, low wage-earning workers to do them? All of these jobs that illegals are doing are supposedly jobs that Americans won't do, but what it really is is that they are jobs that Americans won't do for the wages that employers can pay illegals. Who is to say that the jobs that get outsourced are not jobs that Americans won't do? So instead of having some person in India, who at least has a fairly good grasp of the English language, performing the job for lower wages than we could manage here in the U.S., we have some illegal worker who has less than a working understanding of the English language doing the job here in the U.S. for lower wages. That's definitely improvement. What's that you say? At least the money stays here? Not really. The Mexican government counts on the huge influx of American dollars that it receives from illegals working in the U.S. Also, when the jobs are done in another country, like, say, India, we get a net gain, because we get cheaper products. Studies have shown that low-skilled immigrants in the U.S. actually cost $20,000 a year more than they contribute. Add to that the higher teenage birthrates, the higher dropout rates, and the higher single parent households, and you make the situation worse.
Additionally, allowing illegals permanent status here in the U.S. will hurt Americans in more ways than just in government handouts. Injecting a large number of low-skilled illegals will drive down the wages for low-skilled Americans - you know, the poor that Democrats seem to care so much for. These illegals coming over will do these jobs for less, so why would employers pay higher wages for American citizens? Of course, once you legalize them, you will have to pay them the actual minimum wage, which was just raised. This will cause employers to have to not hire as many (or go back to hiring all of the new illegals that will have entered the country after January), and then we will just be adding more onto the welfare rolls.
So why do Democrats support this? They want these people to become citizens, because low-skilled, low wage-earning people tend to vote Democrat. They are the party for those with their hands out. Also, they envision that once these people are assimilated, they will have to join unions, which again is a winning situation for them. So for this reason they are selling out the poor that are already here and are citizens.
By the way, I doubt this will be played up at all in the media, but it would be a good question for them in the next Democrat debate: does anybody realize that when Clinton and Obama voted against the military funding bill, they also voted against a minimum wage increase? You can say that it was on principle, but remember that it was their own party that attached the minimum wage increase to the military funding bill. They forced people to vote for funding the troops or voting against the higher minimum wage. Why would they lump them together, when every indication was that they would have easily passed the minimum wage increase all by itself?