[oceanview]

but the ones hired on the books have "real jobs"; that is, if they work for a hotel in a kitchen or in housekeeping, they must get minimum wage, pay the SS and Medicare payroll deduction, etc. its just that their presence in this country in large numbers depress the wages that would otherwise be paid for those jobs if the illegals were not available.

i would really like to see how many are paid on the books, as opposed to off the books.

[Yaelle]

i would really like to see how many are paid on the books, as opposed to off the books.

Don't politicians love to say that the backbone of employment in this country is the small businesses? You know they can all easily hire illegals off the books. And not even full time or steadily. They can hire them for a week, a month, a day.

What about health insurance for the illegals, too? Shouldn't we all pay more premiums so that the documentless among us can have insurance? When are the insurance companies going to get in with the banks and see how they can profit?