So, the good jobs are going overseas we've all heard that. That's to be expected when a U.S. company can send a job overseas to be done by a well-qualified college graduate in India or China for one-third of what it costs here. Or a machinist job to someone who will work for a couple dollars an hour and regard himself as lucky to get it. We may not like it, but that's the way the world is, now.

What's left here? Well, jobs that can't be exported, like carpenters and welders and some other skilled trades that work on-site, and low or minimally skilled jobs, like ditch-diggers and busboys. That's why you see college graduates going back to trade school so often now, learning how to be welders and carpenters, etc. Their high skills are no longer marketable in this country, at least not like they once were.

But what do they find when they finally learn a trade and go looking for work? Foreign competition. Many jobs can't be exported, but cheap labor can certainly be imported. That's what amnesty is all about: keeping the supply of labor high so that wages can be kept low. American workers in their own home towns now have to compete for jobs with foreigners, and the competition depresses their wages!