With the current broil over immigration, and the fact that it effects most people in the United States in some way or another (and their money), two articles by Dr. Sowell attempt to put to rest common myths associated with illegal immigrants.
I was most surprised by his logical argument against the myth that we "need" immigrants to do jobs no one else will. His rationale against this is that everything should be based on price. And when people are illegally working for less money, than others lose out. He gives the example of news reporters:
If Mexican journalists were flooding into the United States and taking jobs as reporters and editors at half the pay being earned by American reporters and editors, maybe people in the media would understand why the argument about "taking jobs that Americans don't want" is such nonsense.
His second article covers the absurd idea that we need the immigrants for our farms. I had always believed that, having grown up in California, that it was because of the immigrants that we had access to the large variety of pickings from the field. But Dr. Sowell puts this into perspective by calling attention to the fact that most crops grown in the United States are un-needed! Their farms are being subsidized by the government to grow more vegetables and fruit than we need or can sell. What this leads to is the subsidizing of illegal immigrants by the government (let alone the worthless fruit that we, as consumers, are paying more for, because the market is restricted).
Read the articles and let me know what you think about this whole brouhaha.
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