Hornberger doesn't know what he's talk

Mr. Hornberger doesn't know much of anything, and his opinion puff piece on illegal aliens (they are not immigrants) illustrates his level of ignorance, or willing indifference.  
 
Firstly, illegal aliens (it is the correct legal term) come to the US, and have been proven to displace American citizen workers, who employers fire so they can pay cheaper wages and evade workplace laws, etc.. Because of the cheaper wages, they and their corporate bought and paid for lobby threatens states with lawsuits if they do not provide these illegal aliens with welfare benefits, food stamps, housing subsidies, free health care and many other benefits that is illegal for them to obtain. They then live on the taxpayer, and use the money they earn to send back to their home countries as remittances. These welfare benefits, et al.. end up being a corporate/business subsidy, corporate welfare, that citizens who are denied jobs with American wage standards end up being stuck paying for. 
When citizens work, they spend their earnings in their local area, which profits local and other businesses, improving their bottom line and creating new jobs, for other citizens. They do not require welfare benefits, they contribute to their city, state and federal government through the tax rolls. This creates a strong and healthy economy. What\'s more, gainfully employed citizens earning a wage standard are able to support their children, keep a roof over their heads, food on the table. Those children do better in school, are healthier, mentally as well as physically. They have hope for their own future. 
 
Illegal aliens use welfare subsidies to live on here, which increases the tax burden, they pay no tax for the most part, and if they do it is very little. They steal identities which harms innocent citizens. The monies they earn are not spent in the local economy, they are sent out of the country, which is spent in Mexico, benefiting it\'s economy. Now, I can\'t claim to know what school (or which planet it was on, or what Hornberger was smoking while at said school) Hornberger attended, but he reveals his complete lacking in any understanding of basic economics. The illegal alien situation might profit the wealthiest, it harms the majority of American citizen workers, it causes their taxes to rise, it overburdens the system, it causes them to lose their jobs and/or have their wages drop. It also causes the cost of housing to skyrocket. 
 
Perhaps Mr. Hornberger shoud tell his Canadian government that they over reacted to the 200 illegal aliens from Mexico who entered Canada, and within a few weeks had cost the government upwards of half a million dollars in tax dollars.  
 
The costs to states who are overburdened with illegals are enormous. Illegals cost Californian taxpayers billions of dollars per year. 
 
Reuters is a media outlet that reports on a narrow focus, specifically on what profits the corporate elite. It has a bias. What the article didn\'t report was that for decades American farmers utilized a visa program for farm workers. They were obliged to pay them a good wage and provide housing.  
 
We have laws to protect our citizens, and our nation, which is our right. Has Mr. Hornberger taken on Canada\'s immigraton laws, which from what I have read are far more stringent than American immigration laws. 
Two years ago, some farmers got it into their heads that if they fired their legal migrant workers, and hired illegals they\'d make more profit. Then they started screaming that they needed to hire illegals because there weren't enough legal migrants. Food prices wen farmers hired legal migrants were low, our food supply was better quality and we didn\'t have the e-coli and salmonella outbreaks. Since they started hiring illegals, food prices have skyrocketed and we have had at least 30 outbreaks of contaminated fruit and vegetables, children have died as a result. We have not had crops rotting in the field, but farmers have had problems keeping the illegal aliens they hired to stay working for them. 
 
Unlike the legal migrants they used to hire, the illegals come and stay for a week or two, and then run off to get better paying jobs in construction or other jobs. Taking more work from working poor American citizens. Legal migrants were good, reliable workers who would come, work and then go back to Mexico, knowing full well that they would have those same good paying jobs again.  
 
The illegals the farmers want, keep leaving, then the farmers cry for more. 
 
The few farmers who have moved operations to Mexico do so believing they will get rich quick. That this will reduce their costs, they also are then able to use pesticides that are outlawed in the US, which makes those fruits and vegetables unsafe to eat. From what I have read, these farmers won\'t be staying long in Mexico as farmers, because Mexican farmer are complaining to their government about it. The Mexican government will soon force them out and they\'ll be back to square one, and all because they were greedy, looking to turn a fast buck. 
 
The beef recall from a meat processing company in California some of you in Canada might have read about or seen reported on television, where the Humane Society videotaped sick and injured cattle being abused and tortured, the workers who were doing that, were illegal aliens. 
 
Again, if Mr. Hornberger believes illegal aliens should be able to enter a country and no one should be able to complain about it, he should start bringing them to Canada, and imposing that burden where he will have to pay for it, then he can offer an opinion.

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