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**car.insur** · 05-13-2012, 10:41 AM

That is what is known as "the right question".

I don't have any problem with enforcement of the law. The real question is why the law is what it is.

Open borders (subject to criminal background check), no social security net for migrants, unilateral free trade with every country on earth. These are the things that would benefit anybody who did them.

The why is simple. Unions make higher wages by restricting the number of workers entering a given field, nativist political groups as well as racist political groups generally want to keep foreigners out, while even simple supply and demand means non-unionized work forces don't want cheap & easily exploitable workers lower wages for legal workers. Companies, naturally, want the lowest paid work force possible and if they can avoid paying things like taxes or worker's comp or even unemployment insurance then they will do so.

Our current political dysfunction is that politicians set EXTREMELY difficult legal immigration rules in order to make nativists and unionists and simple rednecks happy (no more "they took our jobs!") but they make sure there is little to no actual enforcement so that companies can still easily get their easily exploitable work force without fear of any meaningful fines or enforcement.

05-13-2012, 10:41 AM	#13
car.insur Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 437 Senior Member	That is what is known as "the right question". I don't have any problem with enforcement of the law. The real question is why the law is what it is. Open borders (subject to criminal background check), no social security net for migrants, unilateral free trade with every country on earth. These are the things that would benefit anybody who did them. The why is simple. Unions make higher wages by restricting the number of workers entering a given field, nativist political groups as well as racist political groups generally want to keep foreigners out, while even simple supply and demand means non-unionized work forces don't want cheap & easily exploitable workers lower wages for legal workers. Companies, naturally, want the lowest paid work force possible and if they can avoid paying things like taxes or worker's comp or even unemployment insurance then they will do so. Our current political dysfunction is that politicians set EXTREMELY difficult legal immigration rules in order to make nativists and unionists and simple rednecks happy (no more "they took our jobs!") but they make sure there is little to no actual enforcement so that companies can still easily get their easily exploitable work force without fear of any meaningful fines or enforcement.
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