FW: [Vision2020] Dear President Bush

[lfalen]

Part of what you say is true. However I think the employer pays minimum wage. They also pay into workmen's compensation and social security.

Roger
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From: "Andreas Schou" ophite at gmail.com
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 14:26:01 -0700
To: "Kai Eiselein, LatahEagle Editor" editor at lataheagle.com
Subject: Re: FW: [Vision2020] Dear President Bush

> > But why...oh why.....do so many liberals defend illegal aliens' "right" to
> > work in the U.S. (illegaly, mind you), yet condemn businesses for hiring
> > them?
> 
> Simple: when American businesses hire illegal immigrants, they do so
> because they don't want to pay minimum wage to an American. They do so
> because if the immigrants try to organize, they can call Homeland
> Security and send htem back home. And they know that they won't get
> punished for wage and safety violations, because they can punish their
> immigrant laborers for reporting them. Letting employers who employ
> undocumented immigrants off the hook creates perverse incentives, the
> effects of which ripple throughout our entire economy.
> 
> There is nothing more American than immigration: people coming to this
> country because they want the opportunity to do better for themselves
> and their families; because they want to become Americans themselves.
> Hell, I wouldn't be here if it weren't for my Irish illegal immigrant
> great-great-grandfather, who stole the silverware from his master's
> house and hocked it to book passage to the United States. Because an
> American is something you can become, unlike a Frenchman or a Briton
> or a German, I'm an American today -- and I don't believe that now
> that I've got mine, we should lock down the borders.
> 
> I don't believe the American dream -- the idea that success should be
> determined by ambition and hard work -- has failed entirely. But I do
> believe that there is nothing more antithetical to that ideal than
> allowing the rich to steal all the benefits of the poor's hard work.
> Nowhere is this more the case than amongst exploitative employers of
> immigrant labor.
> 
> There's no contradiction there. All I want is for people -- Americans,
> foreigners, and foreigners who want to become Americans -- to reap the
> benefits of their own hard work.
> 
> -- ACS
> 
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