You are both right. Doctor Jim I hate that American Citizens who own small businesses are out of the competition because Hispanic perhaps illegal aliens can employ people they don’t have to pay benefits to or workers don’t pay taxes and 3 Angela D, I agree with you that small businesses can take an inordinate amount of money off their personal taxes (we have relatives in the Alpaca business and they pay relatively NO taxes) but for three entrepeneurs, one in North Carolina and one in South Carolina, one in the landscape business, one in the road construction business and one in the roofing business, these entrepreneurs are all quality people who expect quality from their work people. In all three businesses, if the workers sluff off on the job or are dishonest in any way, and there are ways of knowing this, and that worker in these 3 businesses I have personal knowledge, are fired. And they know not to complain because they knew the rules to begin with. These three entrepeneurs have always had Caucasian , Black/African American, and Hispanic-legal and illegal. And guess who wins out on the reliable and honest worker category? Even without the language, Hispanics are more trustworthy. So it’s back to the work ethic and our lack of quality education that expects this of our own citizenry. Our educational system has sabotaged our own citizenry of the ability to work up the ladder because of low expectations in quality work and honesty.
So, if our educational system, and I am a former teacher who fought all the nonsense that has gone on exponentially for 40 years or more, has so dumbed down the American worker they only know expectation rather than hard, honest work, we are all losers. Businesses hire who they can trust. It turns out they have less trust in the American worker than they do the foreign worker, in my estimation; so they justify their anti-American hiring because it benefits their business at a higher level.
Cordio
It has not been my experience that Hispanics are the most reliable group of workers. The last three jobs I have had done on my property where preformed by Hispanic workers. The quality of work was substandard and when confronted there was immediate agitation and aggression. The only reason business hires illegal is because of cheap labor costs not because of reliability or a job well done.