And no matter how many new jobs are created in Mexico. the huge real wage differential between the United States and Mexico (currently ten to one in many cases) will continue to drive workers to seek to cross the border. It is clearly demonstrated. by Ms. Hewlett and countless other experts in the field. that the effect illegal aliens have on current and future unemployment rates is frankly staggering. In addition. what effect illegal status itself has on the alien cannot be dismissed. This status contributes to the creation of an underground society afraid to employ basic police and health related services necessary for not only their own protection. but for the general communitys welfare.
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