Quote Originally Posted by lizbud
Just wanted to add this. There wouldn't be so many people trying to
enter this country at any cost, if there were not thousands of businesses
so willing to hire them at very low rate of pay.They would rather hire the
cheap labor.

I agree. In many ways, this is an employer issue wrapped up in politics.

If the employers didn't hire, the illegals wouldn't come. If we would enforce the current laws against hiring illegals, they couldn't come.

Now why exactly do you supposed the laws are not really enforced? Just ask yourself who really benefits from allowing it to continue?

(In this week's Tribune, an anonymous illegal worker described how her fast-food employer gets letters from the social security administration saying X number of SSNs were "not matching.")

So, do you think it's hard to figure out where they're working?

I myself believe in establishing a guest worker program as a way to manage it. If we want to hire them, then let's clean up the system and let them buy insurance, etc.

The hypocrisy of building walls and adding border patrols while hundreds of thousands of businesses benefit from the cheap labor really irks me, though.

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