you really think the illegal day laborers will have the same accoutrements as a bona fide business?
Do you have much experience with lawn services? For the most part, they’re a guy with a truck and a trailer full of yard equipment. If you’re lucky, they’ll be licensed, bonded and insured. What accoutrements might one expect a bona fide business to have beyond that?
how did you find them? driving around your neighborhood playing a jingle?
are you aware of any illegals who actually operate their own enterprises?
(I mean, let’s not also forget that real small businesses that find that their turf is being encroached upon by 2 illegal brothers in a truck with a lawnmower in the back probably are going to be real good about fixing that problem)
It’s not going to be easy or pretty I admit, but a failure on the government’s part on enforcing a tough-to-enforce law is hardly grounds for allowing someone else to commit the crime of hiring illegal immigrants. Honest employers would want to hire honestly. The problem is too many dishonest employers who willingly turn a blind eye to the law or actively try to cheat it.
The illegals aren’t going to suddenly starve to death. This is a slow process whereby employers known for this stuff will get the noose tightened slowly around their operations. Suddenly maybe instead of 100 jobs at a factory or a farm will be reduced to 50. Or instead of 10 companies willing to do things under the table there will be 5.
There will always be illegal immigration, the lure is too great. But I’m not worrying my head off over the impact of nannies and gardeners. Big companies who hire by the boatloads will get the majority of the fines and their executives the jail time. I don’t want them to hire illegal workers, but it’s obvious that simply tossing bucketfulls of water out of the boat without plugging the hole isn’t going to work. And no, the hole isn’t the border but the much greater desire of coming here and profiting off of employers willing to hire them
There are any number of lawn service workers in my neighborhood on any given day. I probably could have found one by driving around my neighborhood playing a jingle.
Again, you seem to misunderstand exactly what an “enterprise” in lawn service is. It’s a guy with a truck and a mower. Some of them are two, three, six or twenty guys in trucks with mowers, but most are not.
As far as real small businesses “fixing the [illegal] problem”, you seem to have lost touch with reality. We’re talking about landscaping, not waste management.
No, she didn’t.