Reply #12: Well, you can try to look up the statistics, but I think it is true....

[MellowDem]

comparing it to travel inside of Europe makes no sense. Legal immigration to Europe and Canada is incredibly tough. It's also tough to the US. But do any of those nations allow the level of illegal immigration the US does and turn a blind eye to it? Legal immigration is not the problem. It is the lax attitude towards illegal immigration that allows for exploitation and a whole underclass of cheap labor that does indeed effect wages and labor. And in that, the US is the laxest, and on purpose in many cases. Other developed nations enforce their immigration laws and labor laws much more strictly than we do.