[ellery]

Here’s what I don’t understand: if all these cheap laborers are legalized, don’t they become subject to minimum wage laws? How does this help businesses? Of are businesses going to fire all the now-legal folks and hire the next wave of cheap illegals instead? If the latter, what are the now-legal folks going to do?

[moreisee]

Here in California small business’s have been using illegals for so long many are in reasonably high paying blue collar positions and would be difficult, if not impossible, to replace. If these jefe’s could magically obtain legal status the owners lives would definitely be less stressful. Then the next wave will keep the wages low for the unskilled positions.

[Tallguy]

How many people actually make only the minimum wage? And for how long? What we’ll have is a non-English speaking underclass. Hire them at minimum & if they get frisky, dispose of them & bring in the next. Also, they make great camouflage for the illegals in your workforce.