Neal's Workshop

Illegal immigrants put their foot down today. Per Yahoo!, Immigrants Demonstrate Economic Clout, here was the impact of the boycott on one business that relies on the work immigrants provide:

Mike Collins, who owns 500 acres of Vidalia onions in southeastern Georgia, was forced to shut down his packing shed and postpone his harvest when none of his 175 seasonal workers showed up.

It's not that our economy could not adapt to losing all of our illegal workforce - it certainly could eventually; we'd just be a lot worse off. It's simply that the boycott illustrates how clearly the immigration issue has already been decided. We voted on it already. How? In the most efficient manner possible: through our decisions.

We've voted by purchasing cheaper goods.

We've voted by who we've chosen to hire.

We've voted by accepting better jobs because we had cheaper labor to do the jobs we used to complete at higher prices.

If you think we should shut the border and ship these people back to Mexico but have bought anything in the past few years, you're a damn hypocrite. What more, you have absolutely no clue about how the economy works. The labor has walked. It's time you take note.

And what better day to take note than on May Day: it's time we reject the gates of government in favor of freedom and property. We'll all prosper.