[taxed2death]

it would crumble for a day....until employers found out that they would have to pay their workers on the books and the "going rate"...yes, they would have to raise prices...but things would work out well for AMERICANS in the long run.

Illegals are a DRAG on the taxpayers of the US.

[DallasMike]

Actually, because fake IDs are so easy to come by, the vast majority of employers really do pay illegals the going rate. Places like McDonalds or Burger King are huge employers of illegal aliens. They try to weed out the illegals but there would be you-know-what to pay in lawsuits if they super-scrutinized Hispanics without super-scrutinizing everyone. Then then there's the problem of illegals who come here and have babies. Anyone born in the US is automatically a US citizen. Do we deport mom and then stick the kids in an orphanage?

The best long-term answer is to tightly control our borders but the problem of existing illegals is much more complex. I don't have a good, easy answer -- and I don't support amnesty programs either.

[DallasMike]

In post 13 I should have said something like the "employers of the largest numbers of illegals" rather than the "vast amount of employers." Mom-and-pop businesses often don't care who they hire but major employers do care -- yet they still end up hiring high percentages of illegals.