"Economist Milton Friedman says " #1,064
Nobel laureate Dr. Milton Friedman
is right.
It is an alarming comment on a culture, a nation, that would integrate into its own economy a caste of untouchables, with only peripheral protection of laws, risking deportation if engaged by police for even the slightest infraction. BUT !!
It does seem to substantially help keep healthful, fresh food on American dining tables, crops that would otherwise rot in the fields if left for native U.S. citizens for harvest.
We've seen this before, Eli Whitney's "cotton gin" helped spare enslaved farm workers such manual tedium.
More recently, the humble cranberry is now harvested by mechanization, rather than plucking them one at a time.
I revere the good doctor's mastery of the vastly complex discipline of economics. But I disagree with him on some points.
I acknowledge the benefit to our economy from their labor.
I acknowledge the drain on our resources if they consume social services. Yet in our legal system we educate school-aged children even if such child/ren is an illegal alien. Who can argue a fraction of our population being illiterate aliens would be an improvement. *
One other important distinction about immigration after 1914.
With the advent of nuclear and other WMD U.S. government has responsibility to protect citizens, as it failed to do during the attacks of 09/11/01.
The difference?
Friedman is an economist, and addresses the economics.
The good doctor was not a security expert. It's a new millennium Milt.
* Many MAGA types oppose illegal aliens having legal access to such things as driver's license. But it's policemen that advocate in favor of it. If such aliens don't have identification, the police can not document their involvement in incidents first responders report.
