[ifinnegan]

Home building business.

Without all the illegal workers, how can they build all those McMansions for Chinese Communist millionaires?

[Vigilanteman]

See my previous post. As a reasonably good amateur electrician, I'd sometime lend a hand to my brother's business. It took me nearly 5 minutes extra per outlet to secure them with loops rather than just push the wires in.

Eventually, the push in wired outlets are vulnerable to shorts or, even worse, a fire because someone thought saving the cost of that extra five minutes was so damned important.

The Chinese millionaires actually hired my brother's company for exactly that reason. There just weren't enough of them to keep him in business.

[HamiltonJay]

Seems to me pretty clear there is no shortage when you can point out illegals are getting paid $3 an hour less than legals...

That’s not a labor shortage... a labor shortage would require all wages UP. This is just folks trying to cut their bottom line... Pay better and I bet you’ll find you can find the labor you seek without breaking the law.

[Sam Gamgee]

And the “law is the law”. Human slavery is also against the law. We don’t make economic arguments how slavery would save builders money.