Who profits from illegal immigration?

Question

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0308-20.htm

Answer 1

Corporations. They get cheap work and if those workers dare to complain or attempt to unionize, La Migra shows them the door.

Answer 2

According to your link...we all profit through lower costs and 401K retirement plans:

"....there are virtually no jobs Americans won't do - for an appropriate paycheck."

"...their presence elsewhere in the American workforce drives down overall the cost of labor nationwide. And when the cost of labor goes down, there's more money left over for CEOs and stockholder dividends."

Your link's suggested remedy would destroy this country:

"If Congress were to pass a law that said, quite simply, that the CEO of any business that was caught employing illegal immigrants went to jail for a year - no exceptions - then within a month there would be ten million (more or less) people lined up at the Mexican border trying to get out of the United States. The US unemployment rate would drop close to zero, and wages would begin to rise. The American middle class would begin to return to viability, as would the union movement in this nation."

If these are my options, I'm learning Spanish.

"Conservatives well understand supply and demand. If there's more of something, its price goes down. If it becomes scarce, its price goes up."

Too bad no one else seems to understand it.

Answer 3

Mexico, corporations, and George Bush. This in turn depresses the wages of low skilled, law abiding citizens. I'm willing to pay the extra five cents per vegetable in order to support our law abiding, low skilled, wage earner and their family.

Answer 4

Anyone who hires them and does not pay them minimum wage, pay their social security, etc.

Anyone who buys products and services that are cheaper because the illegals will work cheap.

Answer 5

They do!
They play everyone else.