Friendindeed
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This seems to be a hot topic... so I just wanted to give a friendly reminder to try to keep things as "civilized" as possible.
If you are referring to the insult back on the other page, the person edited it out of his post.
Now that that's out of the way. I would like to point out that many strong economies have historically needed a form of "migrant" labor (i.e Japan has Korea and South Africa had bantustan/homelands).
No one I know is opposed to LEGAL migrant labor especially for seasonal agricultural work.
Here is something to ponder about. A good friend used to work for the border patrol but after years of noticing the same trend he decided to quit. What he noticed is that during certain times of the year they would be told not to patrol certain areas of the border and instead to patrol less active areas. Again, I emphasis, our current economic model relies heavily on migrant labor.
He was told that because it serves business interests for cheap labor that is easy to exploit. I have heard other BP stories that were similar.
It's complete crap too, telling them to turn a blind eye to lawbreakers just to favor business interests. Just because something is currently being done does not make it right.