Bernie and others complain the economy is slanted in favor of the rich, but they fail to notice the impact of immigration.
As for the wealthy, you may indeed gain some short-term benefits. You'll get your cheap labor, you'll be able to raise your rents, and
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you'll have more customers. But at what cost? How did that work out for the descendants of the slave owners in the US South?
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You lost hundreds of thousands in a war, you're paying trillions in welfare, and hundreds of you are murdered every year.
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Will your descendants retreat behind walls like South Africa, will the communist government formed by the teeming masses of
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your imported cheap labor take everything from you eventually, will you simply be massacred, or will you have the power and will
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to suppress the desires of your cheap labor in perpetuity? It's far better not to go down this path.
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Cheap labor is more expensive than you can imagine.
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