They may be illegal but we still need them From: chron.com
Posted on: May 21st, 2008
The market is telling us something that many of us don’t want to hear.
It whispers it in the numbers that filter, largely overlooked, through the immigration debate. Consider the most basic: In Texas, we have an estimated 1.1 million undocumented workers, compared with 450,000 people listed as unemployed.
Even if every unemployed Texan had a job, we still wouldn’t have enough people to meet the labor demand, even if we sent all the illegal immigrants home.”*
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Filed Under: Business, Business News, Commentary, Eye Openers, Immigration
