Response not just for YOU, but for all those who are upset with guest worker, and think we should just send them all home tomorrow.
Cracking down on Employers is third on the list because, while it is important, it's MORE important to secure the border, and it's hard to crack down on employers when they need workers to survive.
As much as we like to be upset at the idea of "jobs americans won't do" (and I wrote a newspaper column ridiculing that idea, so I'm one of "we"), we do NOT have enough americans looking for work to fill 12 million jobs tomorrow.
And we need to employ over 2 million people each year in NEWLY CREATED jobs in order to keep our economy growing.
So for now, we do NEED a fair number of those workers to stay around. Not all of them, and not at an unfair wage, but if we made those 12 million people vanish tomorrow, it would be a major blow to our economy.
Sure, we'd recover -- we are AMERICANS. But it wouldn't happen overnight, and in the end we'd endure up to 6 years of bad times before we started growing our economy again.
And while we struggled to harvest our food, pick up trash, flip burgers, clean our offices, watch our own children, do our own gardening, and pay twice as much for housing, those 12 million, along with their wives and children, would be suffering back in Mexico, seething in resentment and anger.
Which I wouldn't care about except that having the country next door to ours HATE us isn't a useful thing when you are fighting a global war on terror.
Employers would be forced to pay higher salaries and the price of certain goods and services would rise if illegals were expelled or greatly reduced in number. The market would adjust accordingly. The increased costs must be offset by the lower taxes that would result from the lesser need for taxpayer funded social services such as schools, health care, etc. Most illegals pay little in the way of taxes, yet are a major expense due to the need to educate their children, take care of their critical medical needs, etc.
Additionally, America is a nation with defined borders and a culture. Uncontrolled immigration makes a mockery of the borders and, in many places, overwhelms the culture with a Third World environment.
There are laws on the books now, they should be cracking down on employers NOW. Take away the incentives to come here (readily available employment with no consequeces is one of hem) and many will go home.
You are one of many who don't really understand the concept of illegal OR what it means when we as a society no longer respect our laws.