Alabama’s unemployment rate fell to 8.1% in December. It was 8.7% one month earlier. In September, it was 9.8%.
Most of Alabama’s illegal immigration law—widely regarded as the toughest in the country—went into effect on September 29.
It seems “jobs Americans won’t do” might be a rather more diaphanous notion than any of the phrase’s supporters realized, eh?
We’ve got to get over the idea that it’s harmless to allow, and in some cases even actively enable, illegal aliens to access our country’s job market and government benefits essentially unfettered. The above result startles me in its degree. Clearly, it does matter—a lot.
Even if you believe it is a legitimate function of government to provide for people without regard for whether the government actually belongs to those people, how is it compassion for us to cut our own throats? Is that not what we’re doing?
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What drives me the most nuts about the debate here are the business owners who keep insisting they can’t find labor. What they mean is they can’t find extra cheap, under the table, labor. Not only did the unemployment rate drop dramatically, but those now on the rolls are being paid legal wages, on the books, and therefore paying withholding.
I’m aghast there’s a debate at all.
I want to say “okay, let’s give them all 1500-sq. ft. houses and new Ford sedans. What do you think?” As long as we don’t care that we can’t afford it, let’s just do it. Let’s issue that stuff to everyone, in fact. Why not? It doesn’t matter, right? The deficit isn’t real.
Quadrillion comes after trillion, by the way.