Would seem a good economy would dictate you let people take jobs, if they are willing to work.
The problem we have, though, is that workers are pouring across the border to take jobs at reduced wages, taking the jobs from those already in America.
So, do we chase the Mexican worker back to Mexico? I say, no.
I believe it better to give him the job. We probably could mention economic reasons, such as he will add to the economy by buying goods and services while he is here. In some cases, the job he takes is not one in which the wage has been higher and he is lowering it, but rather it is a job that pays a low wage if it is to exist as a job at all -- at least as a job in the United States, anyway.
If you don't think there are jobs that can only be filled by less expensive labor than what Americans are willing to work for, consider all the products made overseas, where labor is cheaper. There are a number of products made overseas for which there are no American-made products on the market as alternatives.
But the real reason for giving the immigrant the job is not economic, but humanitarian. It just doesn't seem right to see a person who is so desperate for work that he is willing to work for a low wage, and willing to move hundreds of miles to take the job, and to tell him, no.
You don't treat people like that. If they are wanting to do something good, like support their families, I don't care if they are coming from another country, let them work. What is right and wrong is not the same as what makes money. Just as we as individuals do not think how we treat others should depend on whether it makes us richer, so should our nation be a nation of high principles as it deals with immigration.
I say that instead of chasing these people away, we find it in our hearts to make it legal for them to work here.
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