Reply #30: If the employers are stopped and penalized for importing laborers, [View All]

[proud2BlibKansan]

the jobs these laborers seek will be unavailable to them and they will stop coming. What part of that is hard for you to understand?

The enemy is NOT the workers, it is the employer who not only hires them but actively recruits them. Do you not realize that employers take buses across the border and bring these undocumented workers here ILLEGALLY? There is a company here where I live that has even bought an apartment building for the workers and their families to live in.

So try to put yourself in their place. You are living in a shithole with no indoor plumbing or electricity. There are no jobs that pay more than $1.00 an hour. Your kids are hungry. An American businessman tells you if you come with him, you will make a much higher salary and you can live in the finest country on the planet. He will help you get there, and promises to get you the papers and documentation you need to work in the US. Tell me you would say 'no thanks'. I know I would not.

I don't blame the workers. They are the victims here, as are the US citizens who are losing their jobs. Demonizing workers is not the answer. Fair wage legislation and strict enforcement of laws prohibiting hiring undocumented workers will go a lot farther towards solving this problem.