Reply #46: You hate business, don't you? [View All]

If you hate business enough to suggest that they should be punished for hiring illegals... may I suggest another angle? Rather than bother to hassle the illegals... or even bother hassling the companies that hire illegals... why not raise the minimum wage to $27 per hour? I'll tell you, at $27 per hour... with overtime pay, and benefits... I think Americans would be wiling to do just about any job imaginable. I know I would. Hell... I've changed people's goldfish tank water for a mere $6.50 an hour... for $27 an hour I might consider helping your incontinent mother/grandmother change her diaper...

Of course... this is America, where we don't raise pay to try to reward workers commensurately with the cost of living in this country, but rather we threaten those who hire foreigners willing to work for less... and even more often, threaten those who come to work for cheap... somehow suggesting that they're undermining our society.
Give me a break. They're not undermining anything. They're looking for work, and we're undermining each other... in the grand American tradition.
Hell, if I could get work in Europe I'd leave the US in a second. As a matter of fact, I might do the same if I could find legal work in Mexico. My citizenship, at this point, is primarily a matter of a geographic expanse within which I'm legally able to find work.

Here's a thought for all of those who are worried about losing their jobs to illegal immigrants to the US hired by their employers to take their jobs... why not consider moving to India to chase after the jobs being exported there, for instance? After all, the cost of living there is liable to be lower by enough that the lower pay won't actually impact the standard of living of those doing the jobs? What's the matter? Don't we Americans have the courage to flee our own country in pursuit of work opportunities abroad that the Mexicans, Philippinos, Indians, Russians, Chinese, et. al. have?
That's right Americans... it might be time to begin adjusting to the idea that we're a third world economy too... unless we have the connections to get a nice corporate job...
I know I'm looking for a "Teach Yourself Punjabi" book... personally.