Employers say migration law burden unfairly placed[favor amnesty]

San Antonio Express-News ^ | 05/10/2008 | Lynn Brezosky

[Reaganwuzthebest]

We need to redouble our efforts. The employers need to be in the game, Bill Hammond, head of the Texas Association of Business, said of the immigration debate in Washington. Restaurants are not being built, hotels are not being built, crops are not being planted all for a lack of workers.

What an unbelievably ridiculous statement. Are we supposed to be a nation of restaurants and hotels as if our life depended on it? A hundred years ago the talk was about expanding industry and manufacturing while today they're complaining about how their aren't enough low wage workers to fill jobs at the local Burger King. Welcome to the third world.

[longtermmemmory]

Where are the engineers making machines to pick these products?

We have organge and grapefruit pickers which reduced the number of workers.

we have grain combines.

Why not for tomatoes?

[Sterco]

Regarding the American “horse meat industry”, it no longer exists. America recently decided that instead of slaughtering horses it would simply tether them in wooded glades near interstate highways and allow them to starve to death.

Nope...They are trucked over the Canadian border and the same fate awaits them there that awaited them here. They just spend more time in a truck. Miserable time. The road to hell is paved by do-gooders.

[Sterco]

1. The employers are hiring illegals.
2. The employers know they are hiring illegals.
3. The employers know that hiring illegals is unlawful.
4. The employers do not want to report illegals.
5. The employers are the problem.

6. The employers pocket a lot of money because they hire
illegals.

Of course we will realize the savings in the price we pay for services and commodities. Yeah Right...

[muawiyah]

Lots of those horses have been missing the last van for Canada ~

[WVKayaker]

Are we to give our country away because employers want cheaper labor?

I am an employer!

I employ a crew of Salvadoran painters, in my construction business. They have valid green cards, and pay taxes. They make $18-24 per hour, and work long hours.

I had two white anglo-saxon crews, and got rid of them. The Salvadorans complete two jobs for every one the other guys did.I think alcohol was their proble. But regardless...I make more from the Salvadorans.

I will not hire illegals, but I definitely will hire the hardest workers and verify!

The employers want the work done... and, yes, some will cut corners. Try looking in a kitchen in a NY restaurant!

[KC_for_Freedom]

Not the only reason, easy low interest college loans have convinced many of our students that working to make college payments is beneath them. This was not the case when I was in college; crop harvest was a great way to make extra money without a long confusing interview and hiring process.

I still favor a testing service on the border to allow anyone capable of passing a high school sophmore level math and English test and giving them a temporary resident card (with working privileges). In this way we would encourage better education in Mexico and ensure that our immigrants were the cream of the crop so to speak. Of course Mexico would halt border crossing in a heartbeat once they realize what we are doing.

[Mike Darancette]

Then you sir are NOT part of the problem. If the Legal immigrants do a better job then by all means use them no one is asking you to commit financial suicide.

[Sterco]

Lots of those horses have been missing the last van for Canada ~

Get a MP on the interstate where you see these starving horses and turn the issue into ASPCA. They will deal with it.

[muawiyah]

Horsemeat is fine but BS is still BS, and if the illegal aliens won't go home then their employers should become prepared for lengthy stays in American prisons.

BTW, their assets will not go to waste. They'll simply be sold to more responsible owners.