"Comprehensive immigration reform" is a significant part of Obama's plan to divide the country into a majority of takers, versus a minority of taxpayers and producers. It attracts Democrat officeholders by offering a flood of new Democrat voters. It attracts the Chamber of Commerce and other crony capitalists by offering a flood of cheap laborers, enabling them to avoid paying free market wages to existing American workers. It attracts GOP leaders by the false promise of immediate endearment among supposedly conservative Hispanic voters. However, this legislation is profoundly against the interests of existing American workers, both legal and illegal. It would depress American wage levels, increase unemployment, and accelerate both the immediate expansion of the American welfare state and its inevitable collapse. The result would be the end of America's experiment with self-government. Historically, Democrat politicians were ardent supporters of trade unions. However, the...(Read Full Post)