[zerosix]

Craig (like many other "open borders" crowd) get their 2.5 M, etc. figures from Wall Street Journal Ed. Board and businesses that refuse to pay prevailing wages that Americans are accustomed to working for.

My opinion of the businesses who hire illegals are just plain anti-American.

They claim that "Americans just won't pay X dollars for lettuce, their homes or their lawns to be mowed. Why not give it a try - maybe, just maybe, like the price of gas, we will, when it is necessary.

Big business just desires to make more of a profit to please their investors - NOT to please the American People!

[rottndog]

They claim that "Americans just won't pay X dollars for lettuce, their homes or their lawns to be mowed. Why not give it a try - maybe, just maybe, like the price of gas, we will, when it is necessary.

This would be known as Free Market Capitalism, something I am more and more convinced that corporate America is opposed to.

[Kellis91789]

The whole "prices will go way up" argument is bogus anyway.

You give a lettuce picker a $5/hr raise above what he's currently paid. He picks 200 heads of lettuce an hour. We're really worried about lettuce costing another 2.5 CENTS per head ?

Studies repeatedly show the overall price increase at less than 1% if all illegal workers were replaced with legal workers. Check www.cis.org to see the price increase argument is BS.