CNN.com, April 10, 2009 by Kristi Keck
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/10/obama.immigration/
“We are a country of immigrants, and immigrants have always been essential to who we are culturally and socially. So it’s simply a mistake to see these people as somehow interlopers,” he said…. If immigrants were given amnesty and the opportunity to work for minimum wage, Americans wouldn’t see themselves as in competition with the undocumented workers, he said. “The way to reduce the attractiveness of immigrant labor is to legalize immigrant labor,” he said.