Ed Morrissey:
So Mayorkas' argument fails any rational basis of consideration. Now let's tackle its moral vacuity. Mayorkas wants to argue that the real value of illegal aliens is only in how they can make life cheaper for Americans. They are apparently only good for manual labor, as a sort of Untouchable caste in the American context, with apparent anxiety that their absence will force elites to perform Untouchable tasks. Or at least Mayorkas thinks that's how the rest of America thinks, which would be an entirely different kind of cynical elitism, but just as despicable.
It also sounds aaaawfuuuuuullllly familiar as an argument from Democrats to exploit mass importation of labor to keep costs down for the nobility. Some things never change.
# posted by Ranger @ 7:15 PM
