Profit is achieved on the backs of the poor

 Would we be exploiting the poor or empowering them if we sought to bring in the poor working class from other countries to hold down our production costs and thus make us competitive in our manufacturing endeavors?

  If you can make a car or a computer or an American flag cheaper overseas, it is because your labor costs are less. This is no secret, is it?

   So, why not harness your immigrants instead of hounding and hindering them? If you would bring jobs back to America, the immigrant is your key. The country that makes a product for less is the company that will sell the most of that product. We can see this is why manufacturing jobs go to Korea and China, can we not? So, if we would compete with Korea and China, we must plug into a labor source equally as inexpensive as what they have in those countries.

   Enter the immigrant (if we let him). Perhaps, instead of building a wall to lock them out, we should be rolling out a carpet to let them in. They might be the lifeblood to a stronger economy.

   Whether it is a palatable thought or not, profit is achieved on the backs of the poor.

    So, we should consider these things. Perhaps, we will conclude we are better off without bringing in immigrant labor. But, considering the issue, we should. As is, jobs go overseas. Our own American companies rely on the cheap labor of other countries -- and in other countries -- thus building the economies of those other countries instead of our own. By this thought, if you believe in America First, you bring the jobs back to the U.S. by bringing the laborer to the U.S.
 
   Where the hen roosts is where the egg is laid.

   But, we must more fully consider this before doing it. Will it be true that they will lower our wages? It seems certain there is truth in this. If you have a laborer from Mexico who will perform labor for only $5 an hour, he is going to take the job away from the person who is doing it for $20 an hour. Your laborer from south of the border isn't locked into doing just the specific jobs you brought him to do. He can move up the ladder to higher-paying jobs. And there is your danger.
 
   Eventually, automation is going to take most of our jobs, anyway -- or so it would seem. In a way, the dilemma is the same: We worry about automation taking our jobs because it is cheaper the same as we worry about immigrants taking those jobs because they are cheaper.