Like I said, then put them on the books.Fuck that. Are you a liberal? Well then you need to know that unions have always been against illegal immigrant labor. They knew the more cheap labor flooding the market means lower wages. And companies hiring illegals instead of Americans. And you wonder why blue collar is struggling. What’s wrong with you? Google thom Hartmann’s op ed corporatists vs racists and labor left behind.
How many blue collar Americans would start a house cleaning company or landscaping company if illegals went away? How many American landscaping companies today hire illegals? Now is when you say it’s because they can’t find workers. Ok, then make the immigrants you import legal. Put them on the books. And pay them American wages and over the table. You have to apply to the government and tell them how many Mexicans you want. Or Arabs. Yes you can choose what kind of immigrants you want. Lol if I was a landscaper I wouldn’t want Indians
But you see, that was kind of the point. It used to be, INS was part of the Labor Department, and their entire criteria was how many new people do we let in to fill in labor gaps in key markets. The mistake we've made is we've moved INS over to Justice, then reorganized it as the Jackbooted ICE and sent it over to the Orwellian named "Department of Homeland Security". If they didn't have a real threat, they'd invent one, which is how landscapers and cleaning ladies suddenly became this horrible threat to America.
It's crazy, man.
The real problem has been that most Americans don't want to do these labor intensive jobs. They want a job where they sit behind a desk and push buttons.
And that’s not true about blue collar Americans. They will do the work. You just won’t like how much they want to charge to cut your grass or be your housekeeper.
I pay $100 to clean my little place. Eventually I found a Belarusian to do it. Americans are lazy I’ll give you that. Lol