[Southack]

In other words, they oppose President Bush's plan because they know it will work. They know that illegals will register under that plan and that employers will then hire less and less of them due to the wage incentive disappearing. - Southack

"Hogwash. A retired INS agent disagrees with you, plus about 85% of the public. They are not going to give up free public services to start paying taxes!"

You've misundestood what I've told you. I'm talking about legal American employers. Once legal American employers have to pay the same wage to either illegals or to legal American citizens, the hiring of illegals will decline.

How do we get to that point? By registering illegal aliens with our government so that do-gooders and union goons can verify that everyone is being paid union scale or minimum wage, be they illegal aliens or legal American citizens.

Without registering illegals and their employers (e.g. the system as it stands today), employers can get away with paying illegals sub-minimum wage or sub-union scale.

Under President Bush's plan, those illegals register themselves and their employers with the government. Once registered, wages can be checked for union scale and minimum wage compliance.

Once wage compliance is being checked, the *incentive* for employers to hire illegals goes away.

[investigateworld]

re: Once wage compliance is being checked....
That's where the OBL gang loses. It would take 200,000 well paid federal employees to keep everything on the level. No way is congress going to spend that kid of money.