They need the influx of cash NOW. What better way to get a huge influx if we legalize 12 million workers.
Do you think all those painters, landscapers, day laborers, housekeepers, babysitters are paying taxes? Here in Georgia, the illegals go from house to house looking for work. They will redo your roof for you in a day. Are they licensed or insured? Heck no, you go buy the materials and then they show up do the job for cash. They undercut the legitimate guys by a couple of thousand dollars. My husband works in the construction business, day laborers are the equivilant to the temp workers that corporate uses.
They should be, however one advantage for employers, hiring illegals off the books for cash, is the employers are not having to pay all the unseen expenses they pay for you or I. I don't see this will be an advantage for Mexican workers unless they have proof they were employed and the employer withheld FICA from their checks. It especially should not help illegals working under stolen SS numbers.