usmbguest5318
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For me the answer is "not a damn thing." D.C. has a ton of immigrants from all over the world. So do the other places where I spend a fair amount of time. I've not lost a job to an illegal immigrant. None of them have come traipsing through the neighborhood. No lost benefits, no longer lines anywhere, and I don't see that my taxes have gone up so as I'd notice because of them.
I have an illegal friend 3 actually. They do carpentry work under the table. They take jobs from American carpenters.
I know a landscaping company white owner struggling because of the cheap competition.
I know it guys getting fucked by hb1 visas.
So they flood the blue collar market and it brings everyone's wages down.
What do you do?
I am a semi-retired partner in a professional services firm.
There is no way we'd even consider taking on the risk of hiring qualified illegal immigrants for work. It's a business risk we just won't assume, not for client-facing or back-office work.
There's a good (probably very good) chance we could get away with employing qualified illegals because given the type of work we do, there's no way anyone -- client or colleague -- would know such a person isn't eligible to work in the U.S., nor would they suspect that we had. If we were to hire an illegal immigrant, they'd have the same skills, abilities, polish and bearing as everyone else in the firm; they'd have to as we couldn't use them if we didn't. Nobody would even have a reason to question the matter.
Now on the public services side of the firm -- the part that does work for governments -- it's possible that one of the audits to which we are subject could turn up something if the auditor digged very deeply -- as in show up on a project and check IDs and Social Security cards -- into the private sector side of the firm to find such an employee. In 30+ years of doing this type of work, that's never happened.