The idea that big business promotes illegal immigration so it can profit from cheap labor has been widely disseminated by the popular news media. That this is a myth, and is not founded in solid economic or political reality, is easy to show.  First, look at the history of cheap labor in the U.S. Cheap labor was desired in the late 19th and early 20th centuries not because many jobs did not require a high level of skill but because people didn’t have jobs at all. They lived on farms. The best proof of this is the fact that until about 1910, 90% of the U.S. population lived in rural areas, on farms. Now the great majority of Americans live in the large metropolitan areas of the nation.    The idea that America needs illegal immigrants because there is a shortage of laborers willing to work at picking lettuce and tomatoes, backbreaking labor that no one else would otherwise do, is nonsense. The sanctuary cities of Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York do not...(Read Full Article)