[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Further, the "small landscapers and roofers" you defend aren't competing with big businesses (which you claim use illegal labor), so what forces them to hire illegals?

Self interest. As I said before if your competitor cheats, you cheat or go out of business.

What would force them to not hire illegals? Enforcement of the present laws by the present President with the support of the present Senate.

Next time Bush tells you the "illegals are doing the work that Americans won't do" remember to finish the thought at half the wages to which Amerians are accoustomed.

[Young Scholar]

What would force them to not hire illegals? Enforcement of the present laws by the present President with the support of the present Senate.

Whatever I would do, it would take a special class-warfare mentality to decide that the blame for the problem lies with "Big Business" and "Wal-Mart" (in addition to Bush).

Next time Bush tells you the "illegals are doing the work that Americans won't do" remember to finish the thought at half the wages to which Amerians are accoustomed.

Sounds like a good deal to me. A more global marketplace is emerging, and it will be futile to try to artificially prop up the price of unskilled labor to levels it was at for only a few decades in human history.

[taxed2death]

Self interest. As I said before if your competitor cheats, you cheat or go out of business.
What would force them to not hire illegals? Enforcement of the present laws by the present President with the support of the present Senate.
Next time Bush tells you the "illegals are doing the work that Americans won't do" remember to finish the thought at half the wages to which Americans are accustomed.


Excellent post and oh soooooooooooo true.

Nice choice our government give us (legit business owners), either hire illegals and become criminals ourselves or get our asses handed to us every time we submit an estimate due to illegal competition.

This is GWB's greatest letdown to the American businessman.

It's a race to the bottom.