Conflationgration

clipped from powerlineblog.com My biggest concern about allowing millions of illegal immigrants to remain in this country, while permitting many more to enter via a guest worker program--or further illegality, which, having been forgiven once again, will no doubt be encouraged--is its impact on the wages of relatively unskilled American labor. This subject, and others that bear on the wisdom of legitimizing 12 million or more illegals, and importing many more low-skilled workers for the indefinite future, need to be fully and candidly debated. So far, this has not happened. This is a topic that requires thorough analysis and debate. The fact that the administration's eminent economists can only find a net positive effect on our economy and on our fiscal future--although not on our least-skilled workers--by conflating legal and illegal immigrants, Ph.D.s and roofers, does not suggest that we should be in any hurry to enact "reform" legislation of the sort now being proposed.