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I can understand the reasoning of both sides regarding illegal labor.
Everything it seems is made in China, and I'm talking mostly about American manufacturers in this particular rant. Just bought a Schwinn bicycle tire pump a few hours ago at Kmart. Made in China. Business is, understandably, most interested in the bottom line. If it's cheaper to have your product made in China, b/c they pay their laborers shit and provide no bennies, why would you pay an American to do it?
Money > Patriotism.
Illegal labor at least gives Business a domestic alternative. Pay Enrico $7 an hour and now you can now at least compete with the Chinese imports. For his part, Enrico is now most likely making 2x as much as he was in Chihuahua City, so he's happy too.
But then when times get tough, you have 200,000 more people living here who feel, probably justifiably, that they should get WIC, Medicaid for their children, flood the local health departments, etc, etc.
I think anyone that cannot prove at least 3 years of fulltime employment up here should get the boot. They didn't add value to this economy. C'ya.
Beyond that, work out a pro rata system. Yeah you added value, but only 3 years or whatever, and you aren't even a legal alien, so you'll get say 40% of the full WIC benefit. Dont like that? Go back to Panama City and see if you can do better. Here we'll help you with that travel plan.
Everything it seems is made in China, and I'm talking mostly about American manufacturers in this particular rant. Just bought a Schwinn bicycle tire pump a few hours ago at Kmart. Made in China. Business is, understandably, most interested in the bottom line. If it's cheaper to have your product made in China, b/c they pay their laborers shit and provide no bennies, why would you pay an American to do it?
Money > Patriotism.
Illegal labor at least gives Business a domestic alternative. Pay Enrico $7 an hour and now you can now at least compete with the Chinese imports. For his part, Enrico is now most likely making 2x as much as he was in Chihuahua City, so he's happy too.
But then when times get tough, you have 200,000 more people living here who feel, probably justifiably, that they should get WIC, Medicaid for their children, flood the local health departments, etc, etc.
I think anyone that cannot prove at least 3 years of fulltime employment up here should get the boot. They didn't add value to this economy. C'ya.
Beyond that, work out a pro rata system. Yeah you added value, but only 3 years or whatever, and you aren't even a legal alien, so you'll get say 40% of the full WIC benefit. Dont like that? Go back to Panama City and see if you can do better. Here we'll help you with that travel plan.
