Durasell,
I would actually expect that even those guys would want to make the US stronger nationally and economically.
But, hiring illegals isn't just a criminal problem, it's also a problem of business ethics and fair competition.
A business owner who builds cheap labor into his business plan by hiring illegal workers is the kind of guy that needs to be caught in the act and smacked down real hard!
That guy is stealing business from his competitors, it's larceny no matter how you cut it! Doing crime only gets you into doing more crime and breaking more laws.
Do you think a criminal like that should be allowed to run free?? Do the rights of criminal outweigh the rights of the victims??
We have 11 million criminals, and at least 7 million victims in the unemployed, add in unfair competiton and the other side effects of this and you'll see that you and I end up being the victims in the long run.
The sad part is these guys don't need to be criminals, they just need to go home and return in a manner precribed by law.
This protest today was about flouting the law, it's not about civil disobedience or civil rights. It's about getting your hand caught in the cookie jar and then insisting you have the right to take a cookie whenever you want! If your daughter or son did this, how would you react??
I've known some of those guys who hire illegal aliens as part of their business plan. Most of them are not bad guys. The ones in manufacturing are getting mercilessly squeezed by Chinese competition -- which often directly copies their products. In turn, their customers -- retailers -- are getting the snot squeezed out of them by Wal-Mart. The ones that I know aren't guys buying beach front condos in Hawaii with the salary savings. They're fight for their businesses.
That cheap labor is now a necessity for their survival.
That said, manufacturing can be done with American labor. Alden shoes, which are made entirely in the U.S., uses only "legal Americans." They make an excellent shoe, but their market is quite limited as $350 to $600 or so is at the upper range or out of reach of a lot of people.