[Vigilanteman]

I work with an international company which, among other things, supplies auto parts to well-known companies. We have three assembly plants in Mexico which can't get enough workers even though they are willing to hire Central Americans who are at least 16 years old and have an 8th grade education per the labor laws of Mexico.

We actually provide good meals around the clock as an additional incentive for workers in Mexico.

Given this, you know damn well that the Central Americans don't WANT to work in Mexico because they can keep going north where labor laws are even more laxly enforced and free stuff paid by American taxpayers is abundant.

And, yes, we are forced to compete against even more shady operators who pull stunts like this because we actually follow the laws of the countries where we operate.

[srmanuel]

One thing that would help curb illegal immigration is cracking down hard on companies that are exploiting these people.

Make the penalties hard enough that companies think twice about exploiting these people.

I don’t buy the argument that Americans won’t do certain jobs, I grew up in a farming community, I picked watermelons, tobacco, and bailed hay as a kid, all the kids I went to school with did the same thing, even the women and girls worked on the farms. There was virtually no such thing as illegal immigration.