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"the real driver are the corporate political contributions from those who benefit from cheap illegal labor."

Pure liberal, union B.S.

The companies hiring illegal immigrants are small. Large companies are too big of targets for enforcement. They are run by greedy people who hire relatively small numbers of illegal workers to exploit.

They aren't the kinds of people who make significant campaign contributions.

If they are making campaign contributions, the amounts of money are dwarfed by the fast sums of union money being dumped into political campaigns.

Unions dump vast sums of money into politics and then say that it's the big bad corporations that are scewing politics with money, when it corporations are in most cases not donating anywhere near the kinds of money the unions are.

The numbers just don't support your accusations.

However, if you look at our low unemployment figures, and look at estimations on how many illegal immigrants are currently working in the US, it's pretty obvious that there are more jobs than legal workers in the US.

It doesn't take much of an economist to figure out that if you were able to effectively enforce immigration law, there's be a considerable number of businesses simply unable to find workers.

A slightly tight labor marker is nice for workers. I like having job security as well as mobility, however if the market gets too tight, the economy cannot grow. At the same time the thght labor market drives up wages. That sounds nice until you realize that it's going to also drive up inflation, and inflation in a shrinking economy quickly leader to recession and then depression.

We need strong immigration enforcement, but we also need sufficient legal immigration.

The companies hiring illegal immigrants are small.

Tell us how to demonstrate that and then put your money where your mouth is. Those "small" companies include major construction companies, food processors, farmers, retailers, hotel chains, office block operators, and even government. Wasn't it just last week that a hundred or so were rounded up at a single Walmart site? Isn't the Marriot the company that Senator McCain went to bat for; precisely because they were hiring illegals? Give it a break, 11-15 million people is the stuff of major employers.

"The companies hiring illegal immigrants are small. Large companies are too big of targets for enforcement. They are run by greedy people who hire relatively small numbers of illegal workers to exploit.

They aren't the kinds of people who make significant campaign contributions."

That is total BS

Tyson, Cargyl, IBP ,Pilgrim foods are pretty big corporations and they hire almost exclusivly illegals and are never called to task over it.