Quote Originally Posted by xblackdogx
Illegal immigrants employ jobs such as restaurants, lawn service, construction, agriculture, and hotels. Let's say business owners are punished for hiring illegal workers (getting paid 5-6). They all have to hire native-born or legal immigrants on the books which they pay (10-12, which actually costs 15-17/hr b/c of taxes the companies pay for each worker).

Now think about the hundreds of thousands of jobs, and see how they effect the the profits of ALL restaurants (pizza to steak joints), lawn service (cutting grass or removing trees), construction (of houses, businesses), agriculture (apples to avocados), and hotels (holiday in to the hyatt).... they all would have to pay over 10 dollars more for EACH worker, how do you think they will pay? higher prices to consumers!

We are shooting ourselves in the foot not letting them work here. Extreme inflation along with regular wages staying the same is bad news for everyone. Who is going to be happy when we cannot go one day without at least one product being produced or served by illegal immigrants, and now pay a much higher price for it while you're still making the same as last year.
No it's more like we have been shooting ourselves in the foot for letting them come here for so long, because in doing so they have driven down or kept the cost the same to do the same work for the past 30-40 years. yes it is true that onsumer prices will rise drastically but that will only get worse the longer they stay and work, because at some point they will all get deported, or laws will become strict enough for them to be unable to find work. The fact is that if they would ahve never came here all the companies that expolit them would ahve had to either go out of business or keep up with the times and technology to be able to still pay US workers decent money, and turn a profit thmselves, but this didnt happen and now look.