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If the problem is businesses hiring illegals, then why are Americans still using these business services?

If the government won't uphold the law with these businesses, and Americans know these companies are either hiring, or operating as an illegal business. It is the American people that support these businesses, and the illegals that they hire. And it is the Americans that are going to have to stop using these to stop the companies from hiring illegals. I am an American, and I hate to admit to myself that I have also supported these criminals, so I made a choice not to. I no longer buy any products from Mexico, who has the largerst amount of offenders in my country. There is nothing racist about that fact, either. My entire family is doing the same, and my mom now pays me to mow the yard, and I can always use a little more gas money. My sister now pays my other sister to babysit her kids. There is always someone in your family that can use a couple extra bucks, stop giving it to an illegal, and give it to them. My mother just paid our neighbor to clean out our storage. It is not as hard as many think to find an American willing to earn a few extra bucks. This is my opinion on the question

Public Comments

1. Cause we love 99c a pound apples and 1.49 a pound peaches in our supermarkets. If you had to pay $5 for American-collected pound of apples, that would probably suck.
2. BECAUSE WE SUPPORT YOU AMERICANS! WITHOUT US YOU WILL BE NOTHING AND YOU WILL BE LAZY AND DIE OF STARVATION!!!
3. answermonkey- Spoken like a person truly ignorant of economics....
4. The oppressed are not mobilized. Hurray to the oppressors! j/k No seriously the whole composition of society is to benefit the affluent bourgeoisie. They will are st the people who cross the border to work. But not arrest the ones who utilizes this illegal work. Seems obvious to me
5. i clean my own house ,i mow my own yard , if i do have to hire someone i check them out first . i watch what i buy and i don't eat out to often and try my best to check it out . and illegals are costing us more than they contribute and prices will not soar there will still be legals and us so the panic hype i am not buying !
6. I agree with you 100% I do not need illegals. I clean my own house. I do my own yardwork. I grow my own vegetables. If I had to pay a higher price for fruit, I would rather do that because it is cheaper that what comes out of my pay check to support criminals. If I knew which companies hired illegals for sure, I would not use them.
7. The answer to this question has two facets: basic economics and the American mindset. First, on the American mindset. Americans seem to have the impression that they "deserve" things. Joe the factory worker in Texas genuinely feels that he deserves $18.50 an hour and free healthcare and a union break every 2 hours. Conversely, Jose the immigrant factory worker is content with $5 an hour and working a 14-hour day. Given this, and following our high school economics teachings, who would you hire to work in your factory...and be honest. When you think about numbers like these on a grand scale, it only makes sense that any businessman would hire immigrant workers. It is cheaper to pay 1/3 wages and get more work out of your employees even when you have to pay government fines every month. If the government comes down too hard on "big business" that employs immigrant workers, all that will happen is that Uncle Moneybags will close the factory in Texas and open one in China. Keep in mind that illegal immigrants still contribute (financially) to American society. They have to buy food somewhere, they don't smuggle it in from Mexico with them. They need a place to sleep while they are stealing your job. They pay for all these things, and that money goes back into the American economy. Not to mention that everyone who has been chiming in on this issue is a hypocrite. Unless your great-great-grandparents were forced to walk the Trail of Tears, you are only an American because we let immigrants come here. So get off your high horse and save some money by paying the Mexican guy to mow your lawn.
8. Businesses that knowingly hire illegals usually don't hang a big shingle out in front of the store to announce it. It's that whole 'illegal' part, and more businesses need to be on-the-ball with reviewing their job applications and their employees, too. If you're in the United States working illegally, holding fake ID, then you need to get 'right' or get OUT. In some cases, there is no 'right', so they'll be hiding on purpose, lying to their employers, and so forth. I think there's always been cat-and-mouse between illegals and law enforcement, I think what would give the whole thing a Big Boost is to start enlisting the help of those who've LEGALLY emigrated recently, they might be able to best help in some ways. But, the BIGGEST HELP of all is if they didn't get into the United States. In Mexico's case, that means a border fence. In the case of other countries, enforcement starts...well, where DO you start? I guess by looking at the reasons they're in our country in the first place, school, work, benefits, etc., and make sure there's supplemental safeguards in place to ensure that people in/or that come to our country are doing so lawfully. Citizens can really help on this one, hotlines could probably do a lot...
9. Guess who clean the bank office,who work in the chicken factory for kFC, McD,Wendys,who pack the turkeys,who is in WMart,and who, and who, and who, dream man, only dream, MONEY is MONEY, no one can stop the big companies.
10. So you think everyone ought to go into "USA" businesses and ask for their credentials? So what if your entire family is doing it. You think your boycott tactics are going to make a dent? Wake up. Hell, come over and do my lawn!