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To: Elroy who wrote (315803)	12/15/2006 1:12:37 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1591310

"At the right wages? What's that mean? What salary increase do you think is required on average to get an American to take one of these jobs held by illegals?" I can give you and example here Elroy. When was in my early 20's, I worked for a while as a carpenter, building houses. It paid pretty well, but was hard work. Those jobs are almost all done by illegals now, at the same wages I was getting 30 years ago - NOT adjusted for inflation! All the jobs now done by illegals were once done by ordinary Americans, without exception. farmworkers.org The current illegal problem has it's roots in the "bracero" program, that started in WW II. It hired Mexican workers to come and do jobs Americans HAD been doing before they were called to fight. It educated Mexicans to the possibilities of coming north to work, and employers to the benefits of hiring inexpensive Mexicans to do the work more expensive americans had been doing.