[CottonBall]

“I do not personally benefit from the use of cheap illegal workers other than indirectly through lower prices.”

That’s not really true. If it were, house prices in mexifornia would be half that if the other states.

Illegals get paid under the table, so then go out and get welfare, food stamps, housing subsidies, and free medical. Taxpayers get screwed and only the unethical employers get mire profit from paying no workers comp and no social security.

[Tau Food]

Cottonball, I can just tell you what these candidates are being told. They are being told by, for example, large agricultural concerns that our crops will not be competitive for export purposes if farms can only hire legal workers at higher wages. And, they are being told by the hotel and restaurant industry that these workers are crucial to their survival.

I feel the need to assume that they are telling the truth. I have trouble believing that any business would hire an illegal unless there is some manner in which it is costing the business less to do so. I have to assume that they know what they are doing and know what their choices are in the market.

And, I assume that if we correct this problem, it will cost me something more than it does now to eat in a restaurant, to buy groceries, to stay in hotels, etc. I am willing to pay more.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Illegals get paid under the table, so then go out and get welfare, food stamps, housing subsidies, and free medical. Taxpayers get screwed and only the unethical employers get mire profit from paying no workers comp and no social security.”

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