Not the only one.
Since we're comparing lawn care anecdotes, I've an acquantance who runs a successful lawn care/snow plowing business employing 30 or 40. He's from Mexico, here about 25 years, a citizen for 10 or 15. His employees are mostly hispanic, all legal he tells me, and I believe him. He's one of the staunchest opponents of illegal immigration I know. It's his contension, which I also believe, that it locks his employees, who are following the law and working hard, into minimum wage compensation. Including those in supervisory positions. There's no advancement, and the success of his business is limited, because of competition from illegal labor.
You're right, the customers of firms hiring illegals won't object, I doubt the envirowhackos will either, nor will the employers of illegals. But there are those who are being harmed.
He wasn't. He was positing a typical straw man argument. It is not relevant to the issue, but that means nothing.
Your friend is to be commended, and supported, if he denies employment to those without proper documents. I wish there were more like him...
Interesting, especiallly, since some on FR see a guy named Jose, mowing a lawn, scream illegal.
Nice try at putting the genie back in the bottle, SJackson, even though you post threads on FR letting the genie of hysteria out.