Pure crap.
We are paying so much more in services and incarceration than we are saving by paying criminals, many diseased, a couple of bucks less per hour.
If you have not reported your friend then you are part of the problem too. Give me his name and address and I will report his ass if you are afraid to.
He's my friend, jackass. You know that word F-R-I-E-N-D. And you're completely full of it if you think it would do any good. The streets in front of all the lumberyards in his town are FULL of illegals soliciting work and nobody does anything about it. It's the same in most towns in the U.S. so stop playing the big man, blowhard.
We are paying so much more in services and incarceration than we are saving by paying criminals, many diseased, a couple of bucks less per hour
Most of the guys I saw were healthy and very hard workers...so save your ignorant, racist rant for someone else. The savings are far more than a couple of bucks an hour and the guys who hire them make quite a bit of money by doing so. It's the rest of us who are stuck with the bill.
This is the rational part of your argument.
It's correct and is actually an understatement since many of us are paying a price which is hard to measure in money - unsafe schools and streets, fear of assault and humiliation, degraded cities and environments, threats to our values and traditions.
That's why the dispute is so difficult to resolve.