Biz owners say they are hurted by a shortage of labor. Would you send millions of illegals back in an instant?

Answer 1

Yeah. There is no shortage of labour. That is complete bull.

Answer 2

Yes. Why? Because in a properly regulated free market, labor is paid what it is worth, and that cost is passed onto consumers. Use of illegal labor keeps prices low at the store, but subverts the free market by pulling money out of the system and lowering wages all around.

Here is the other issue, and I wish more of my fellow liberals understood this: illegal immigration hurts Mexico to. As long as the political class there can send their poor across the border, and get remittances in return, they will never be forced to fix their corruption or infrastructure or economic problems. Cutting off illegal immigration is a "tough love" solution, but I think it will help them immensly.

Answer 3

SEND THEM PACKING

A grassroots border security organization is praising Swift & Company meat packing for its recent announcement that it has hired nearly 1,300 U.S. citizens and legal residents to fill jobs that used to be done by illegal aliens.

In December 2006, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducted raids on Swift plants in six states, arresting about 1,300 workers. The Greeley, Colorado-based company says the raids cost it an estimated $50 million; but Swift reports it has now returned to "standard staffing levels" at all the affected processing facilities with people who have a legal right to work in the United States.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/05/swift_hires_american_citizens_.php

Former Swift Workers Say Company Replaced Them With Illegals
By LINDA COADY, ESQ., Andrews Publications Staff Writer

Nineteen former Swift & Co. employees have filed suit against the meatpacker, claiming that it knowingly hired illegal immigrants to work at its Cactus, Texas, plant in order to drive down wages for its workforce.

According to the complaint in this unusual case, Swift actively sought out and hired the illegals because they were willing to work for less than were the plaintiffs, who had a legal right to work at the plant.

http://news.findlaw.com/andrews/em/emp/20061222/20061222_valenzuela.html

When I hear the comment....
"illegals will do the work that Americans will not"
I wait for the rest of the comment
"do as cheaply"

Answer 4

Yes I would. How is it that we have millions of Americans on welfare or on the street complaining they can't find work while at the same time businesses are complaining they can't find low skilled workers? The answer is because employers want to pay below minimum wage and not provide the employees the benefits they're legally required to provide.

There is also no incentive to for the Americans that would be perfect candidates for these jobs to take them as opposed to begging for handouts. We need to require able bodied people to get back to work or they don't get any benefits. We also need a national work database, so that if someone needs workers in Miami and there is someone who can't find work in Detroit, we can match them.

We should also be investing in labor saving devices to cut our depenency on foreign labor.

Answer 5

Yes, and I would send the business owners who hired them to jail.
That would open up all kinds of new markets for legitimate business owners who would then hire legal workers and greatly increase their bottom line.
What a novel idea - obey the law, follow the rules and still have a very successful business.
Where's the down side?

Answer 6

Well I guess then businesses will just have to raise pay until they can attract decent workers. Let's hope the days of needing to work 3 jobs to get by in America are coming to an end.

Answer 7

Of course business owners are going to make that claim in order to justify the fact that they pay illegals wages that Americans cannot live on.

When one lives with thirty other people,one can live on these wages,but Americans can't and shouldn't.So continue to empower the corporatists,and their war on the American working class.

Answer 8

What they are saying is they want lot's of low paid labor for jobs Americans Won't take because They don't pay enough to let one live in today's America -which is increasingly expensive.
And yes -send them back.it's our country after all.

Answer 9

yes i would, maybe those business aren't good after all if they knowingly hire illegals...or maybe they might start paying better wages to attract workers...why pay full price for a legal when you can pay half price or less for illegal...that thinking needs to stop...because that isn't looking out for America or Americans...

Answer 10

Yes. Too bad for the businesses that are built on the backs of illegal immigrants...they should know better.