Do you agree with this assessment Bottom-line mentality fuels illegal-immigrant crisis?

Question

IF President Bush and all his men were truly interested in slowing down the tide of illegal immigrants, all they would have to do is enforce current employment law. With American corporate profiteers willing and able to break laws to increase their bottom line, and our current leadership's willingness to ignore it, one can only expect future problems.

This political negligence serving the White House's constituents can be found if one "follows the money." Bush's proclamation that illegal immigrants are doing work Americans are not willing to do is laughable. America did just fine before this tsunami of immigrants, did it not? What has riled and straitjacketed local and state government to no end is that it is this same federal government that comes down with all its powers to punish those who follow existing laws.

I recently watched a Texas businessman on CNN desperately explain that he had no illegal immigrants to harvest his crops. This farmer stated that it was because of a local construction boom and the illegals went off to higher-paying jobs in the city.

This farmer's worry illustrates the problem. Immigration is all about money and always has been. Farm labor, like being a McDonald's hamburger flipper, has always been entry-level employment.

Will illegal immigrants do our entry-level work for the rest of their lives? That is an insulting notion. As soon as opportunity knocks as a result of all their hard work, they will move on to something better, like all of this nation's former immigrants. If allowed, illegal immigrants and/or their children will be future professionals and public leaders. Make no mistake about it.
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Has anyone yet realized that many illegals themselves have businesses and are employing people. We are way past the stage where we can just say, "It's business hiring them."

And those here illegally are not just doing meanial jobs. They own businesses selling satellite TV systems, car lots, restaurants, restaurant chains, car repair facilities, stores, sign companies, printing companies.

Where do the silly notions come from that it is the darn employers and those here illegally can only be found in a field, washing dishes or making beds at hotel?

delina_m Hey, why don’t we just bring back slavery?” It achieves all the same cheap labor goals that they want, but you only disagree with the moniker...

Answer 1

I work and live in a veritable petri dish of illegal-to-anchor-baby-to-2nd-generation Spanish-speakers.

The FIRST thing we all must realize about this mess is:

FEWER THAN A THIRD OF THESE PEOPLE EVEN WORK!!!

Most are stay-at-home moms collecting money for the U.S.-born kids. Many of the men work only 2 or 3 days a week.

So, even if you eliminated ALL POSSIBLE JOBS, we'd still have over 2/3rds of the problem.

Also, as they reproduce so disproportionately, those who DO work tend to expect more and, yes, they move into management positions. Now who do you think they hire? If coming illegally benefited them, what's the harm in winking at Equal Opportunity Employment law?

This thing is so out of whack it's insane!

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Answer 2

But is not only the big corporations is whoever wants to have a nanny work 10 hrs and only pay it $3.00 an hr. who wants to have their garden done for next to nothing, tables cleaned, waiters, house repairs, and other small jobs like that. It's virtually all of us . We want things done but we don't want to pay for it, nor do we want to do it ourselves...

Answer 3

Corporations must stop hiring illegals so that they will be discourage to come to the US for work.