[Finny]

Wanting a day off for an important event is “entitlement-minded,” but stealing into a country where you have no right to be and taking a job you have no right to take is acceptable in your world? Looking at it strictly from the business/employer's point of view -- absolutely, because the government has no right, morally nor Constitutionally, to force me or you to pay an unskilled teenager more than he is worth. Yet it does, hence the Mexican even wants the job he "has no right to," in your book.

I would be inclined to grant that the Prom night was important and try to accommodate it, but ... what about the right of the employer to pay what is equitable to his employees?

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

There are a lot of things wrong in this country, and people expecting 15 bucks an hour to flip burgers is one of them. If there must be a minimum wage at all (I question the need for it), it should certainly be much lower than $15, or even $10. But no matter what, letting people steal into our country is not a solution for any problem. I know kids who are perfectly willing to work, and do work, like dogs, but have trouble finding and keeping jobs because there are always illegals hanging around willing to do the job for a couple bucks less an hour...Because by and large they don’t pay taxes, car insurance or large medical bills.