It's mostly small businesses who hire the illegals. Faced with not surviving in business due to onerous garbage laws, they hire Mexicans who are eager for the work.
If the regulation was erased and American low-wage workers couldn't demand all the goodies, American business could hire American workers and Mexicans wouldn't be so attractive.
Getting rid of Minimum wage laws and such is the answer IMO and that's not going to happen anytime soon.
Aren't there a lot of large corporations (Tyson Chicken comes to mind) who hire illegals? And I believe a lot of large construction companies do also. It isn't just small companies by any means.
I think you're right about Minimum Wage Laws practically forcing small business to hire illegals.
Here's another problem:
Big difficulty for humanitarian church groups: how can you tell whether a particular homeless, hungry, or sick person is a citizen or not? For that matter, how can an employer tell whether a job-seeker is a citizen or not, given the ubiquity of fake Social Security numbers and other forms of false identification?
Looks like we'd have to have some kind of forgery-proof universal I.D. system (using computerized iris-scans? fingerprints?) covering every person in this country without exception.
Are we willing to go along with that?
(If I'm wrong about this --- I'd LOVE to be wrong about this --- so don't just call me a dork. Explain why.)
Horse-hockey! The CRIMINALS who employ ILLEGAL aliens do so to gain competitive advantage over those who abide by the laws of our country, not out of any threat that they will go under if they follow the rules.