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...find it difficult to deny any human being the right to work relentlessly for the opportunity—not a handout; just a chance—to enjoy some of the prosperity that most Americans take for granted. On the other hand, I recognize that the availability of cheap immigrant labor lowers wages for some of America’s poorest citizens. The assertion that immigrants only take the jobs Americans are too proud to do is both xenophobic and false. Immigrants take the jobs that Americans won’t do for low wages. If immigration stopped, the grapes...
...problem. Soon enough, though, you might end up with a Blu-ray or even HD DVD burner - one that will let you record true high-definition content onto a shiny silver disc. Sure, it?s cool, but in the first couple of years, none of that stuff will come cheap...
...Brown's best-selling novel. Either way the secrets are out now, and if they weren't worth $24.95 to you in hardcover, you can get them and the absorbing tale of Harvard "symbologist" (sorry, but there's no such thing) Robert Langdon and minxy sleuthette Sophie Neveu for cheap...
...possibly in the history of the Republican Party, which helps explain why the politics of immigration is becoming so tricky for the G.O.P. The business interests in the party base don't want to disrupt a steady supply of cheap labor for the agriculture, construction, hotel and restaurant industries, among others. That's why business lobbyists broke into applause and embraced in the Dirksen office building as the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12 to 6 to send its bill to the Senate floor, with four of the committee's 10 Republicans joining all its Democrats in favor. So doubtful...
...unforgiving low-wage business culture-the dark shame of Mexico's political and economic leaders, which NAFTA was also supposed to reform-makes sure that they still often pay in a day what similar work would pay in an hour in the U.S. Add the recent deluge of dirt-cheap Chinese imports into North America that are taking business previously provided by Mexico, and the urgency for Mexican workers to head north only heightens...