Originally posted by Mr Big
People who want to lynch the employers as the main source of the problem just don't quite get it, imo.
If you want to throw people in jail, you should first look at our elected officials who allocate funds to send illegals to school, help pay for college, medical expenses, you name it. The government is guilty of knowingly harboring and assisting illegals. And they do not enforce our existing laws.
The employer is just as much a victim as the illegal immigrant. The employer is forced to either play the game or go out of business in a lot of cases. Our government is guilty of not enforcing our laws and allowing illegals to deflate our labor prices and take the jobs that Americans would be doing if not for the flood of illegals being given the green light by our government.
Bash the employer and the government, but the consumer is yet to be bashed in this thread. Main source of money for the businesses are their customers, who willingly pay the lower price, let alone the demands for a low price. That's what makes it profitable to use illegal workers, because they're cheaper and the lower service price attracts more customers. Same thing is going on with every product that is manufactured in countries with cheap labor - you can sell products for lower price than your opposition. Eventually your opposition will be forced out of business or to compete on even grounds with you and move their production to a country with cheap labor. For the highly paid labor this means lower wages and less jobs, which in turn creates more demand for cheaper products. Rinse & repeat.
It's a rolling snowball, which doesn't stop growing until it stops from rolling. The consumers are heavily responsible for this. You are a consumer. It is you who decides what kind of service or product you buy. That creates a demand, the businesses offers you a service as you demand it. There's no such thing as cheap service or product - the price cutting has to be done somewhere in order to provide you with the lower price. Sometime, somewhere, the lower price will hit you back - was the price cheap or low?
If you don't like how the price cutting is done, then don't use the company or product. You are the source of money for the illegals.