I do not understand how flooding the market with additional people seeking employment is going to help those in the current labor market get higher wages. There are arguments that can be made for compassion, and those in favor of immigration reform should stick to those arguments. Attempting to appeal that such reform is in the best interests of the American blue collar worker does not pass the common sense test. Whether you realize it or not, some of us blue collar workers get around some and have personally witnessed where legal citizens have been displaced to the detriment of the middle class and the benefit of the upper class (lower wages equals higher profits).

Right now is absolutely the wrong time to pursue expansive immigration reform. You are not going to convince the majority of citizens on the unemployment or underemployment lines that they should cut their own throats. That they should allow that illegal immigrant to now legally be allowed to take that job they were hoping for at a wage they they could never have supported their family on.