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Originally Posted by BFT3K
Legal US workers - teenagers or otherwise - get paid at a MINIMUM of minimum wage. They have rights, and if some shit goes down, they often sue their employers.
As long as the work is "on the books" employers have to match certain taxes (ie unemplyment, social security, etc.).
Legal workers have legal rights.
On one hand you guys want to bitch that there are over 12 million illegals in this country taking your jobs, and on the other hand you guys want to pretend they do not work here.
None of you will pick fucking fruits and vegetables for minimum wage, let alone BELOW minimum wage, so don't even pretend you would.
After decades of this debate you are now going to blame Obama?! FUCK YOU!
Bush let in over 5 million illegals, just while he was governor of fucking TEXAS douche bags!
This debate is ridiculous. Even fucking McCain agreed to a reasonable path to citizenship (which is probably the best plan), until the righties went further right.
Now he denies it, and denies being a "maverick" as well.
Fuck off!
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Once again, what you're not grasping is that when you take out the illegal immigrant equation and the corporations have to pay a higher wage, Americans and legal immigrants will do the job. Yes, nobody with a brain or not desperate will pick fruit for $3 an hour. Hire legal workers and raise that to $10-$15 an hour and you will have takers.
It's a total line of crap to make the blanket statement that illegals are doing the jobs that Americans refuse to do. The accurate statement is illegals are doing the job that Americans refuse to do for that price.
The fundamental problem is the business industry that hires these illegal workers to drive down wages. And now Obama is pressing to overturn laws that punish these businesses for hiring them. Thus the thread title.
Stop spending so much time (money) on the border trying to keep people out and spend more time (money) drastically increasing the punishments for businesses that hire illegals. Massive fines, closures, jail time. Make the risk greater than the reward of cheap labor. When the jobs run out you wont need to spend as much on the border as they wont be trying to get in. Fight the cause, not the effect.