Response from: Avens O'Brien    (07/11/07 8:34pm)

"Employers would become so desperate for labor, they just might have to raise pay"

I would recommend you look into the topic of inflation - when you raise the minimum wage, in any sense of the word, you raise living standards for us all.

If employers have to pay more for their employees, the prices of their products go up, which means we all end up having to pay more.

"The illegal immigrants come over to the wealthier countries, take up the jobs nobody else will take, and bring that money back to their home country."

The reason they do so is because they're taking care of their families across the border. Why? Because their families can't COME across the border. Why? Because we make it really difficult for hard-working immigrants to come here legally.

If we made it easier for people to legally immigrate into this country, and bring their families with them, they would start considering themselves Americans and stop helping our their former country's economy, because they wouldn't have such enormous ties there anymore.