First you have to ask the question, do the feds want illegal aliens in the labor force? A fair interpretation of behavior and rhetoric of the legislative and executive branch is that they do. 
Posted on 01/02/2008 6:26:06 PM PST by flowerplough
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At risk of redundancy:
ILLEGALS fleeing Oklahoma, Arizona and other states that have
“grown a pair”...
DO NOT come to Missouri.
Even Missouri’s leading Democrat is telling y’all to just keep movin’ on
to a real santuary city (LA, New Haven CT, etc.)
“Builders say they can’t get enough workers and are threatening a lawsuit to try to block the law.”
That’s funny... For all the cheap labor they’ve been using housing prices have skyrocketed over the last 15 years. Shouldn’t cheap labor mean more affordable housing?
Guess not.
No more sucking at the US taxpayers teat, indocumentados.
Why don’t the damn builders try hiring some Americans. I am tired of paying more and more taxes to pay for their cheap labor. They should be put of of business if the flout the law.
One has to wonder what makes you think the illegals work cheap?
Locally (North Texas), my contractor friends tell me you can't get the least-skilled day laborer to work for less than $11 - $12 an hour, and carpenters with a little skill work at local cabinet shops for up to $20 per hour.
Various folks have tried various law suits, and the courts have thrown them out.
Surely the builders know that?
Actually, a lot of southern states made a near seamless transition from slave labor to sharecropping.
Some liked the sharecropping system so well, they would've been unwilling to return to slavery even if they could. For one thing, sharecroppers got no care in their old age (as did slaves) and got paid only on what the produced.
Slavery was inefficient, socialistic and was not the most productive use of resources. The slaveowners skimmed most of the profits for themselves and looked at their slaves as revenue streams and hands to keep them in power, much like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton use their constituents today.
Mississippi and other cotton states actually had laws against recruiting sharecroppers to move north when industry needed labor which couldn't be supplied by immigration alone from the 1890's onward.
But, the funny thing was that the sharecroppers got recruited and moved anyway. In time, though, the south discovered they could attract industry as well. And the idiot unions up north became their unwilling ally in the movement of industry . . . and people . . . back to the south from the late 1960's onward.
Especially since most Mexicans are hypocrites and fly Mexican flags and go on and on about how great Mexico is....
I think this was what happened to the businesses who tried to stop the AZ law. They couldn't submit that the law had harmed them because first, the law didn't actually come into effect until the new year and second, they would then be admitting they hired illegals.
Screw the “builders”. They can find all the workers they want if they’d just PAY FOR THEM! Instead, they don’t mind charging the prevailing price for their services while undercutting their competition with subpar workers.
Does anyone out there really think builders using illegals are passing their lower cost to the consumer?
I also find it wonderfully ironic that many of those returning to Mexico are having trouble getting back in because they don’t have the proper documents any longer! HA HA HA HA HA
First you have to ask the question, do the feds want illegal aliens in the labor force? A fair interpretation of behavior and rhetoric of the legislative and executive branch is that they do.
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I’ve noticed something else never mentioned in these debates. Go to any railroad museum and there is usually a montage to the Chinese “immigrant” that “suffered” while working on the railroad.
Are we going to have to have museums at all buildings and large landscapes dedicated to the “abused and exploited Mexican immigrant” in the future?
Every state should have a law like this.
They'll spend zillions for the lawsuit, but they won't increase their wages by one red cent.
Americans would be glad to get that wage. Why not hire them? And, even if they want a higher wage, how many pennies does that add to the finished product, or dollars for a large single project?
Either the firm that hires the illegal workers passes the difference in costs on to the customer or they keep it to themselves. Or a combination of the two. Or, if there is no difference, why not hire Americans?
The owners of fast food franchises in Arizona have filed law suits, and appealed.
I think this was what happened to the businesses who tried to stop the AZ law. They couldn’t submit that the law had harmed them because first, the law didn’t actually come into effect until the new year and second, they would then be admitting they hired illegals.
My point, which could have been clearer, was that Texas as a rural state offers large property tax exemptions to owners of agricultural lands who regularly use illegals. These illegals send their children to public schools in town which are largely financed by town folks who do not use illegals but cannot qualify for agricultural exemptions.
I might add that I am currently located in the Texas High Plains which has the world's greatest concentrations of cotton production possibly only matched by its concentrations of illegals.
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