@brien
Initially I thought you were disagreeing with me.
Regardless of your intent, it was a great post.
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Quote by: brien One solution to this problem is to force American business to hire legal American workers. Fine and penalize those that don't and then we will see the true worth of the labor being performed by people who are exploited by American business. |
Hate the sin, not the sinner.
While I dislike illegal immigrants, I can't really blame them for taking advantage of our flawed nation.
I would wholly prefer to punish businesses for using illegal labor.
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Quote by: brien Another solution is to legalize all illegals working now. But be careful what you wish for because when this is accomplished, suddenly there will be 12 million more legal workers in the labor pool all looking for better jobs. |
A consequence of this action of making it so that those workers must legally be paid minimum wage?
They will find that those companies will stop letting them work. If they have to pay minimum wage for their manual labor, they might as well force people to go through the motions of application and hiring. Good luck for immigrants trying to get a job if they can't speak English.
Or, if those new citizens are willing to keep quiet, they might just let those companies keep them emloyed illegally and promise not to rat them out.
I don't think citizenship should be free, so I'm a big fan of the first option.