Why Border Patrol is a Sham

It's strange how despite years and years of immigration and complaints about immigrants, they continue (or at least have continued over the past decade) to pour across the border almost unchecked. You would think that if it were such a problem we would do something about it. But at the end of the day, in the heart of hearts of the administrative personel making border control decisions, they know that to slow the influx of immigrants would actually be detrimental to our nation. It isn't a problem at all. It is the fuel of our economy. We haven't had a sub-blue collar workforce like this since slavery. With the threat of deportation comes extreme submission, to the point that we can pay them five dollars an hour without complaint, we can subject them to working conditions that would make OSHA shudder, and we can drop them from the payroll without a second thought. Forget about having to pay for healthcare--they can't receive it. Forget about unemployment and benefits--employers don't have to pay it.

Think they don't pay taxes? What about the $9.2 billion dollars net impact in sales and tax on NC in 2006? What else would you tax, their income? What income? We hardly pay them anything. The state probably makes more in tariffs through remittances than they would ever make from a comparable citizen's income tax. According to a study at the Kenan Institute it costs NC about 61 million a year to house this "illegal" population, including healthcare and education. The state saves about $1.9 billion in wages ALONE, not to mention the increase in state productivity. So who still wants to build that fence? And who still wonders why we haven't already?