A challenge to the liberal narrative on illegal immigration

John Hawkins:

7 TRUTHS LIBERALS NEVER ACKNOWLEDGE ABOUT ILLEGAL

1. Any sort of legalization or amnesty encourages more illegal aliens to come here
During the Reagan Administration, we had a “one-time” amnesty that featured promises of security in return for three million illegals getting to become citizens. Today, most estimates seem to put the number of illegals in the United States somewhere between 11-12.5 million.

In other words, seeing that we weren’t serious about enforcing our immigration laws led to more illegals than ever coming here in hopes of getting amnesty. If this amnesty goes through, we can expect to see the exact same problem repeated in a few decades.

2. A wall would make a major difference
A wall was never intended to be a fix for illegal immigration in and of itself. To the contrary, it’s a force multiplier.

What we see everywhere that we have full fencing up is that illegals overwhelmingly avoid those areas. In other words, you can use a wall to direct illegals to certain areas and concentrate the border patrol in those areas. As we’ve seen in Israel and even around the White House and the Vatican, walls work.

If you’re serious about stopping illegal immigration, you support a wall.

3. Illegal aliens hurt the poorest American workers
Because illegal aliens don’t need health insurance and car insurance and they can lie on their taxes to get the earned income tax credit, they can work cheaper than American workers.

So, not only do the 11-12.5 million illegals outright take jobs that citizens would otherwise have, they drive wages down for all the workers competing with them. That’s Economics 101. When supply outstrips demand, the price drops.
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Illegals do take jobs away from unskilled American workers who are mostly minorities.  While I support a wall, by itself it would not cure the problem with the amnesty "invaders."  These people are not evading the Border Patrol  They have been coached into presenting sob stories prepared by immigration open borders activists.  With a wall, these same people would be knocking at the gates to present their claims for amnesty.  While the administration has been cracking down on those claims it needs to also educate people in the countries of origin for many of those claimants.

The amnesty claimants need to do more to change the dynamics in their countries of origin and help improve them and the US should make it clear to those countries that if they do not clean up their act the US will support these people in seeking changes to regimes.