Path: ...!npeer.as286.net!npeer-ng0.as286.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Woodward Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 09:58:32 -0700 Organization: home user Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <8ehfhj9jphf08ssafje6l45ugf8dd4gjub@4ax.com> <7tjuhj1allinjn37bcb495hss9jmt624qj@4ax.com> X-Trace: individual.net E7bs3NWJeTXXKuwyEp8+bw+nVULSGVZ34PBLyKXEj5MTbBSR/w X-Orig-Path: robertaw Cancel-Lock: sha1:TjPjBgkA7pSIPKggnrFUo6Pf/a4= sha256:LSNwyCsHdgDt6hdRvuo7t5AMUllfJm9iFM+mM7N/aB8= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) Bytes: 2599 In article , scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote: > Lynn McGuire writes: > >On 10/28/2024 9:59 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote: > >> 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_. ‹----------------------------------------------------- Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com