Yes. Absolutely true. My point is that the ultimate employers of illegals are those liberal snotbags who lecture us. One of my neighbors is a “Landscape Architect”. The workers show up every morning, pile into the trucks and head for the high-tone communities here on Long Island. The same high-tone communities that consistently vote Democrat.
If these same liberals were willing to pay a living wage to those who clean their toilets and mow their lawns there would be no question about who is willing to do the work.
BTW: The same “Landscape Architect” that hires the illegals also keeps all of her equipment on her residential property in violation of local zoning regulations.
As you know the argument (and it comes from conservative business folks as well), is that "I can't find Americans to work at the prevailing wage".
We have to be somewhat sympathetic to the small business person making that claim because it's true. The non-enforcement of immigraton and labor laws has provided a vast pool of illegal peasant labor willing to work for substandard ages, and that's where the small business must compete when bidding jobs. But it's not their "fault", they didn't cause the disruption in the labor market. The huge business associations (American Meat Institute, Council of Chain Restaurants, etc) and their lackeys on Capitol Hill and in the White House have encouraged and cultivated the problem.
Frankly I can't blame the small business person. They are competing against this huge pool pool of illegal peasant labor and would become uncompetitive if they paid proper wages to American workers (and followed the law).
Seriously, the only way to end the problem is to eliminate the pool of illegal peasant labor from the American workforce.
[BTW: The same “Landscape Architect” that hires the illegals also keeps all of her equipment on her residential property in violation of local zoning regulations.]
No equipment malfunctions?