States not helping to combat Illegal Aliens

[Tom_Turner]

"We" need people to work for below minimum wage? Someone needs to tell the congress which raises the minimum wage from time to time then.

I believe Americans *will* do this work if you cut off funds to able bodied adults. Work or Perish. For the established (or better) minimum wage.

And, I agree with Moose. The companies that hire these illegals need to face HUGE fines and people need to do jail time.

Of course we WANT low prices for our goods and services. The fact is we better start paying for those goods and services because it is a total falacy that we will NOT "pay" for what we are doing now. We will NOT have our cake and eat it too.

Bush wants a "guest worker" program. And on a small scale, that might work, but its not a solution. Not at all. Unless one day you want to wake up in a place like France with a huge disenfranchised 2nd class torching your cars every other week.

This country does not benefit I don't believe, on balance, economically from all this illegal immigration. Yes, its true there were migrant workers for many decades terribly exploited, but our cities were not being overrun with millions upon millions of illegals from south of the border. There are all kinds of "hidden" costs. Don't kid yourself folks.

Tom

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Bottom line is we need to get the illegal workers out. Heres a good solution. Get rid of the immigrants and scrutinize the welfare program a little better. There are too many sap sucking Americans on welfare doing nothing driving an escalade while collecting a welfare check and letting the kids starve. Kick welfare out the door and make these people do the unskilled worker jobs immigrants are currently doing. It is a good idea. I am not one for goverment subsidizeing (if that is how you spell it) but something that would make sense in that realm is to create a goverment program to help farms and such to cope with it. Or get the farms involved in a program of sorts. We need to find ways to drive the immigrants back out. At this point even if we block up the boarders it is not going to work. We need to end inscentive for things like this.

I saw a video recently related to this issue that presented a pretty funny yet good idea. That though my firends is probably a story for another time.

[NIKV69]

And, I agree with Moose. The companies that hire these illegals need to face HUGE fines and people need to do jail time.

Be careful what you wish for, cause if the labor cost goes up due to getting rid of migrant workers so does the price of most everything. Big time.

[PhilDernerJr]

Illegal immigration employment is so rampant these days, that it makes me wonder if we even have enough American workers to fill the jobs, low pay or not.

How will the higher cost of production and therefore higher cost of goods affect our international trade?

[Tom_Turner]

Some commentary from Dr. Sowell on illegal immigrantion/immigrants:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/colu ... 006&page=1


How many times have we heard that illegal aliens are taking "jobs that Americans won't do"? Just what specifically are those jobs?

Even in occupations where illegals are concentrated, such as agriculture, cleaning, construction, and food preparation, the great majority of the work is still being done by people who are not illegal aliens.

The highest concentration of illegals is in agriculture, where they are 24 percent of the people employed. That means three-quarters of the people are not illegal aliens. But when will the glib phrase-mongers stop telling us that the illegals are simply taking "jobs that Americans won't do"?