On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 20:00 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > Unfortunately, bigotry and xenophobia, and the insane belief that > immigrants "take jobs away from locals" will prevent this from ever > happening.
that's not an insane belief, it's just insanely expressed. immigrants drive labour prices down directly, or indirectly through competition. but saying they take jobs away from locals sounds nicer than saying they make locals have to work hard(er) to compete than they would have to otherwise. you don't have to be xenophobic not to want to admit to laziness :-) -r
