[goldfinch]

She begrudgingly admitted that she started them at $7 an hour. Why would anyone work out in the heat of summer for $7 an hour when they could go to any fast-food chain, restaurant or a retail store and make that much working in the A/C?

As my wife said, she won’t meet the market demands for her labor costs and wants the government to legislate her a way to keep paying lower wages than the market demands.

It is true that this woman wants us to subsidize her cheap labor. In her defense...If she pays her workers more, she will be undercut when bidding for jobs by other landscape companies paying their illegal workers less. And she will eventually go out of business.

One of the worst thing about the government's failure to crack down on the employers of illegals is that is forces other employers to use illegal labor to stay competitive.

[Regulator]

One of the worst thing about the government's failure to crack down on the employers of illegals is that is forces other employers to use illegal labor to stay competitive

That's what happens when the Umpires don't enforce the rules of the game.

[L98Fiero]

“One of the worst thing about the government’s failure to crack down on the employers of illegals is that is forces other employers to use illegal labor to stay competitive.”

You make a very good point.

[AuntB]

One of the worst thing about the government's failure to crack down on the employers of illegals is that is forces other employers to use illegal labor to stay competitive.

You describe the exact thing that happened with the practice of slavery in our early history. I've researched this for 3 years for a book. Many families suffered in poverty for generations avoiding succumbing to owning slaves. They had big families and worked themselves to death and got nowhere for generations. Others were 'benevolent' slave owners because they dispised the practice, but slave owners non the less. It became a choice of poverty or economic security. I hate seeing us left with that choice again.