It's an act of love
As long as there are minimum wages, excessive labor taxes and regulations, they’ll be a demand for illegal immigrants.
I was traveling along the Gulf Coast in May of 2006, the year after Katrina. I met a Mexican in a small camp ground in Alabama or Mississippi. He was working for an Atlanta, GA company, but working near the camp site. They paid him $4 an hour (min. wage was around $5.65 or $5.85?), and sent most of his money home for wife and kids. I asked if paid enough in Mexico would he rather work there or in the US. He said at home, but liked the US because “the police are honest.” We really have to help the Mexicans get on top of their crime and corrupt police issues.
In my part of NJ (with plenty of illegal aliens), plenty of employers want to pay AMERICANS off the books as well. For unskilled Americans, they no longer have the protections of labor laws - especially Workers Compensation insurance if they’re hurt while working. This occurs with many of the jobs American high school students would do in the past - landscaping, food delivery, restaurant work...
I wonder which Republican presidential candidate he supported? I bet he was disappointed after the GOP convention.
As long as there is greed and the willingness to ignore the laws, there will be creeps like this to take advantage of those without the ability to protect themselves.
Some one should take the constitution and show him the 13th amendment.
Even if none of these existed, there still would be a demand for illegals, simply because Americans aren't willing to work for pennies or live in the squalid conditions (family of 10 in a clapboard shack and a tin roof) in which many Mexicans and other Third World people are quite happy.