Yo Quiero Green Card!

although i will probobly be labelled a racist for the following statement, bear me out before you start bashing away your flames folks.

I think that illegal immigrants should be shipped back when found and the companies that pay for their work should be fined out of business. not because i have issues with immigrants. as long as someone legally immigrates i dont care where they come from.

the problem is illegal immigration drives down wages. people say that noone in america wants to do the jobs that illegals do but that is only because the wages in those jobs have been depressed to the level that no american will take them. why? illegal immigration. it also affects jobs up the the financial ladder too. more and more jobs that were once done by lower middle class americans are being taken over by illegal immigrants. jobs that were once done by teens too: baby sitting, yard care and warehouse jobs.

the fact that our government looks the other way so that big corporations like the one Bob lists above can pay slave labour wages is part of the problem. by driving down wages big corporations are eating away at the basic standard of living in this country. if big companies had to pay a fair wage for said work, the standard of living would increase for those who took these jobs and more likely that legal immigrants and or actual citizens would take these jobs.

some industries that used to be americanized but are now pretty much slave labour havens for illegal work:

1. The Meat Packing Industry: (something that used to be a skilled trade that paid well)
2. Custodial Janatorial
3. Lawn Care and Design
4. Domestic Service
5. Food Service
6. Farming
7. Garment Manufacturing/Textiles

all of these industries if forced to pay a living wage would be decent and honourable jobs to hold. but because we allow illegals into the country we may in the short term reduce our costs but we are slowly eating away at the basic standard of living in this country and crowding citizens together to compete for fewer and fewer "living wage jobs" that have not been sought by illegal immigrants.

all of the problems listed by Bob would be solved with tighter border control and severe pentalties issued to companies that subvert the american wage standards and practices.