Yeah. let's get silly. When you buy things you will buy what's cheapest assuming quality is comprable. That is why Wal Mart does well (among other reasons). I have Pedro, paper work seemingly intact, wants to pick for $1 a tub, or a machine for $250,000 (if a machine will work on the terrain and the winery accepts machine picked). I have no other alternative. At $50 a tub white folks wouldn't show up to work and no one wants to pay 10 times more for the end product.
I would love to do without these guys, and eventually we will, if worker comp and labor laws continue the way thbey are. But to remain competitive we do what we can within the law.
I have a better idea; be a responsible consumer. Don't patronize businesses known for hiring illegals and make it known. When I can't sell something, I will cease to try or change. Stop making the governemnt be your working concious.
(I may sound sharp, but I really appreciate your reply, thanks)
But if you're going to hold out illegal immigration as being a problem that needs fixing, then you need to fix the source of the problem, which is Americans paying people to cross the border illegally.
But maybe I'm mistaken about your position: do you think illegal immigration is a problem?
There are plenty of "white folks" who are happy to do menial labor. You don't hear about them because they don't make as big of a splash in newspapers.
For example, Amish, Hutterites and fundamentalist Christians do all kinds of menial jobs in farming, contracting, maid services and manufacturing. They are legal, they speak English, they aren't trying to take over the Southwest to create a Hispanic state and they don't clutter up the criminal justice system.
We need more of them. But since they have about six kids per family and their numbers have increased by a factor of 36 in the last century, we should have enough after we kick out the illegals.
If those white folks were not drawing a government handout check I bet they would be a lot more willing to work for a wage close to what you're paying illegal Mexicans. As long as they can sit on their butts watching Judge Judy and Oprah all day and still draw more from Uncle Sugar than they can make working they won't work. This stuff aint rocket science folks.