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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 09:58:32 -0700
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In article <tV6UO.740250$_o_3.85292@fx17.iad>,
 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:

> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:
> >On 10/28/2024 9:59 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

<SNIP>

> >> Anyone who has done a honest study on illegal immigration in the US has 
> >> concluded that the American economy is DEPENDENT on the labor of 
> >> illegals.  Our economy would crash without them.
> >
> >Nice try, nope.  Illegal immigrants allow employers to cut the salaries 
> >of legal USA citizens.  I have seen it done many times in the 
> >engineering industry, especially software engineering.
> 
> As the old saying goes, 'one swallow doesn't make a summer'.
> 
> There are very few, if any, illegal immigrants in the software engineering
> field.  There are a lot of legal immigrants in the software
> engineering field, and federal law requires they be paid
> the same as domestic engineers.

For that matter, software engineers who STAY in India probably have a 
bigger adverse affect on American software engineer salaries then 
software engineers who emigrate to the USA.

-- 
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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