The Top Ten Reasons To Enforce Our Immigration Laws Now
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10.    It's time to raise the American standard of living.

The real minimum wage has been declining for over a decade. Some
advocate raising the minimum wage--but this, of course, would raise
the price of unskilled labor above its free-market value. Mass
unemployment would result.

Why has the market value of unskilled labor declined? For the same
reason that all prices move: supply and demand. It's hard to change
the demand side of the equation: you can't make anyone "need" an
unskilled worker who doesn't need one already. For years, however, we
have been artificially modifying the supply side by quietly
tolerating a massive influx of unskilled workers across our borders.
We can reverse the trend by enforcing immigration laws. We won't need
to raise the minimum wage. It will raise itself. Millions of
Americans will be lifted out of poverty, and millions more from the
lower middle class to prosperity.

9.    We can immediately create millions of new jobs.

Conservative estimates place the number of illegal aliens in the U.S.
at 10,000,000. That's ten million. Taking into account minor children
and the aged, that's still millions of people who are flooding our
labor force. Remove them, and opportunities will abound for
Americans.

There's an old canard that says that illegals "take the jobs
Americans don't want." This is a fallacy! There's no job an American
can't or won't do for a living wage. It is a cruel joke on the
American worker to allow illegals to depress wages for many jobs
below poverty level, and then to mock Americans for being reluctant
to participate in the poverty.

8.    Breaking the law is crime. Lawbreakers are criminals.

Out of deference to the PC crowd, many like to use the term
"undocumented workers"--as if illegals were merely missing a piece of
bureaucratic paperwork. By the same logic, we can call a car thief an
"undocumented driver."

Our immigration laws exist for good reasons: to protect our safety,
our national sovereignty, our standard of living, our health, and our
culture. Those who break them may "want a better life for
themselves," but then again, so do all who enrich themselves by
disregarding the law.

Besides, many people who wish to immigrate honestly are waiting
patiently. Granting privileges like driver's licenses and social
security cards to illegals is a slap in the face to law-abiding
citizens and immigrants alike. It's like opening an express window to
give titles and owner's cards to car thieves, while making legitimate
owners stand in line!

7.    Open borders threaten our safety.

Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, two things have become
clear. First, we have enemies, and they are vicious and without
conscience. Second, our enemies obviously believe that an attack from
within is more feasible than an attack from without.

Even before the horrid events of September 11, our immigration laws
had the primary purpose of protecting us. The use of visas and
passports allows our government to monitor, and to control, who
enters our country, and why.

Certainly, few illegal aliens are terrorists. But it only takes one!
More importantly, the creeping ideology of open borders--the (usually
unspoken) belief that treating foreigners who enter our country
differently than we treat our own citizens is somehow
"discriminatory" or "racist"--is creating a terrible dilemma: Either
we cease to monitor the aliens (and open ourselves up for even worse
attacks), or we create the "equality" of the police state by casting
aside constitutional protections for citizens and monitoring
everyone.

The more resolutely we protect