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Now see - there's the rub, highlighted above. It's mainly Republicans who bitch and moan that every problem in our country is the fault of some illegal alien; yet these same Republicans are the business owners who employ them in order to maximize their profit. Common sense tells us that if you go after the employers, the jobs will go away; but no Republican is ever going to suggest, let alone enforce a bill that will put business owners in jail.
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As well as deporting illegal immigrants, I'm also in favor of fining businesses that employ illegal immigrants.
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Besides, to tell you the truth, if all the illegals at the car wash down the street got deported, I don't think, even in this economy, too many people will be in line fighting over those $3.50 an hour jobs
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No, probably not when unemployment pays, at least around here, $10.00/hr (some $400.00/week) for up to 2 years now.
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And what is the reaction going to be in our supermarkets when suppliers have to start paying minimum wage to have all our produce planted, collected, and transported? Are you going to smile every time you buy a $3 apple, knowing it wasn't picked by a brown person?
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Why is this an issue? If illegal immigrants are given amnesty and legal immigrant status, then they will have to be paid minimum wage if they aren't already. So there's no savings by giving them legal status.
Obama says his plan is to have illegal immigrants pay a fine and go to the end of the line applying for legal status. As I wrote to Obama, that's fine as long as the back of the line is in the country where they came from.