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Cleaning offices or picking fruit is an important job.

America's working poor citizens deserve a decent wage to do that work.

Instead, America's working poor are at the mercy of "elites" who want to save a few pennies on fruit, so they give those jobs to illegals.

And then they tell us they can't find Americans to do those jobs.

America's working poor have not the power to counter this propaganda--even the unions have turned their backs on America's working poor.

Cleaning offices or picking fruit is an important job.
America's working poor citizens deserve a decent wage to do that work.

Instead, America's working poor are at the mercy of "elites" who want to save a few pennies on fruit, so they give those jobs to illegals.

And then they tell us they can't find Americans to do those jobs.
America's working poor have not the power to counter this propaganda--even the unions have turned their backs on America's working poor.

They will not be getting a decent wage now that Bush has put for this crud. Illegals have been depressing wages for a long time.

Cleaning offices or picking fruit is an important job.

I never said that those jobs wre too unimportant for American workers...what I was responding to was your comment:

Pal, if someone offered me enough dough to pick their fruit, I'd chuck this keyboard and put on my overalls.

I responded..

Sure you would..and so would most welfare workers...if they were 'offered enough dough'.

What is your problem??

Cleaning offices or picking fruit is an important job. America's working poor citizens deserve a decent wage to do that work. Instead, America's working poor are at the mercy of "elites" who want to save a few pennies on fruit, so they give those jobs to illegals. And then they tell us they can't find Americans to do those jobs.

Agreed. IMO, MOST employers KNOW that they are hiring illegal immigrants. Slap these SOB's with massive fines and the illegal immigrant problem will be eliminated over night.

Of course, the price of goods and services will reach a new equilibrium, but that's what we should have -- eliminate the supply/demand-wage/price perversion and control immigration, no matter the affect on prices.

In the end, illegal immigration serves as a cost subsidy to suppliers and a price subsidy to consumers. Nail the suppliers for using illegal immigrant labor and the labor-cost/product-price equilibrium will reach the appropriate level. I for one would be willing to pay $2.50 for a melon (instead of the prevailing $1.25) if the illegal immigrant labor subsidy was eliminated in the process.