Recently, I spoke with a ‘housekeeping’ company and asked what problems he/she were facing i.e., finding employees? Answer: “I pay higher wages then one might think and or any of my competitors…, double digit hourly wages, the word speads through employee referrals and I get what I pay for…, I get a great deal of walk ins who are, by their own admission ILLEGAL ALIEN, JOB SEEKERS, whom I turn away consistantly”

Why I asked? “I remember back during the time when my children, living in Los Angeles, CA at the time, could not find a minimum wage job at the local hamburger shacks because they couldn’t SPEAK SPANISH!” In America, I asked? “Yes, he replied, hard to believe I thought at the time but from a business perspective, I understood the dynamics of living and working in Southern California and it incensed me greatly.”

Bottom line: If more and more employers would do, as this gentleman did, we would have no need for and totally eliminate the presence of Illegal aliens in our country. Jobs are the draw, and money is the feul that feeds the invasion. As long as we allow the paving of the way for ‘criminals’ to break our laws with impunity this wound will never heal.

I mentioned to him that while I am not anti-crops (mmm, I love fruit!), I care more about my nation than the desires of the agriculture industy in having a never ending supply of cheap, illegal labor.

A true guest-worker plan can be used for such things as crop harvesting but let’s face it, most illegal ARE NOT picking crops. They have flooded Atlanta, Denver, Chicago taking construction, carpentry, janitorial, lawn care jobs, jobs that many younger Americans did in the recent past (and still do in most of the mid-West and Northern plains and New England states). Remember, in the South of the 19th century, slave owners also complained that ending slavery will ruin the economy. No it won’t, on the contrary it will help spur technical innovation in farming.

[Thanks for the cross post Dave. It's appreciated.--ed].