Deanna Martin, writing for the Associated Press, reports that the legislature’s summer study committee on legislative issues will be taking a look at illegal immigration in Indiana.
The summer study committee on immigration issues has scheduled Statehouse meetings Sept. 9 and Sept. 16. The co-chairmen — Sen. Dennis Kruse, R-Auburn, and Rep. Scott Pelath, D-Michigan City — said they may hold other meetings around the state.
They hope that the study committee setting will allow the process to provide a little more light and and a little less heat. Issues they plan to review are how many illegal immigrants are in Indiana right now, where they live, and what they do to earn a living as well as their impact on the state’s economy, law enforcement, and families.
The article notes one argument in favor of illegal immigrants that annoys me when it’s stated incompletely:
[O]pponents of the bill said the impact of illegal immigration isn’t all bad, because the workers fill jobs that others may not want.
The missing piece of that statement is that non-illegals may not want the jobs at the wages being offered. It’s a supply and demand thing. If the supply of labor doesn’t meet the demand for the labor, then the price for the labor ought to rise. However, instead of allowing the price of labor to rise, there is often a policy decision to increase the supply of labor by whatever means necessary.
“[O]pponents of the bill said the impact of illegal immigration isn’t all bad, because the workers fill jobs that others may not want”.
WRONG!
I believe the American taxpayers are fed up with the suckling of these ILLEGAL ALIENS. Just sucking us dry from the BILLIONS upon BILLIONS sent out of this Country every year, not to mention the BILLIONS upon BILLIONS the ILLEGAL ALIENS and their ANCHORS suck up every year. This must end now or we will soon be bankrupt and this beautiful Country will become a third world country.
Yes, get the ILLEGAL ALIENS out of this Country and back to their own country where they belong. THEY DON’T BELONG HERE!