Obama creates backdoor amnesty program for illegals.

[HappySqurriel]

I find it a little ironic that those that defend the status quo with the American immigration system are using problems with the American immigration system to justify their beliefs. All of these arguments fail to account for the impact illegal immigrants are having on the problem ,,,

First off, the argument that illegal immigrants do the jobs Americans are unwilling to do is a half-truth; and the whole argument is that "Illegal immigrants do the jobs Americans are unwilling to do for the pay and in those working conditions" ... One thing that becomes obvious when you look at a country like Dubai is that, when you have a large population of people with limited rights who are willing to work for next to nothing, the value of semi and unskilled labour disappears. While in a city like Calgary where there is a labour shortage creates an environment where an unskilled worker can earn $15 to $20 per hour, when you have a surplus of workers in a region like Arizona that are willing to work for below minimum wage this same unskilled worker probably can't get a minimum wage job; and in the same situation the worker that is in demand can make their own demands on working conditions that the worker in the region with a surplus of inexpensive labour must take what they're given.

Secondly, one of the reasons it is so difficult to get into the United States is that legal immigration is unnecessarily limited because the illegal immigration rate is too high. To put numbers on this, if your country can support 100,000 immigrants per year and you have 25,000 illegal immigrants entering your country you have to scale back legal immigration to 75,000 people per year; and if the illegal immigrants were not queue jumping you could increase legal immigration by 25,000 people (or 33%).