The borders can not be shut. But the door to HR can. Businesses knowingly hire people with accents and poor paperwork because they work cheap and have to take all the abuse you hand them.
I have seen a lot of illegals in the construction industry. Construction companies say they have to hire them because their competitors are.
They work in food processing companies in great numbers.
Tyson Foods Faces Suit over Illegal Workers : NPR For example.
Min wages hurt young kids, in California it is $10 hour with benefits and $12 without. If your baby sitter is over 18 you have to pay worker’s comp and a lunch break.
Why does that hurt them? Sounds like they would get more money. Are restaurants in California not hiring kids anymore?
Sure they can. It’s really not that difficult. A fence, surveillance system, and more border patrol guards would do it. Why do you thing this is so hard? It’ not.
Uh, just because there are a lot of illegals in construction and food processing (which is simply a fact) doesn’t mean the]at they also aren’t doing the jobs that teens used to do. Hell, just look at gardening. I used to make money mowing lawns. Look at seasonal food service. It used to be all high school and college kids. Now, most of those jobs are taken by illegals.
Now, how about your next response actually responding to what I wrote?
Of course the border can not be shut. We are building a useless fence to quiet down rightys who latch onto poor solutions and declare them answers, when they are not. The border is about 2000 miles long. Then you have to shut down the water. There are boats in Mexico too.
There is a lot less border infiltration now because the jobs are down. They can be unemployed in Mexico as well as here. But at least they can be with family.
And with the Eric Cantor mandate for offsetting spending cuts, we will just close a few hundred schools so you can feel like you did something about illegal immigration.
Na, use the Obama method of cutting food safety programs.
Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn’t your cite report on new regulations by the Obama administration on e. coli, not less? And that it is the Republican Congress that is gutting food safety regulations?
Did you read it? It doesn’t give a very good sense that the government is looking out for your safety. Congressional budget office expects those new regulations to cost upwards of $1.4billion, and doesn’t think it will ever get funded.
“Even the president has suggested cutting the USDA’s meat-inspection program by $9 million in 2012.”
• The two agencies on the front lines of food safety, the Agriculture Department and the Food and Drug Administration, have different risk assessments, legal standards, and resources committed to the effort.
• USDA inspectors admit they are stretched so thin that they frequently miss required inspections at some plants, particularly in the populous Northeast.
• FDA inspectors physically check only about 1 percent of the food shipped into the United States from foreign countries and get to only about a quarter of domestic plants a year.
• The administration is considering permitting raw-meat imports from Brazil, a country that has struggled with foot-and-mouth disease and various strains of E. coli for years and whose inspection system for pathogens—in particular E. coli 0157—has been flagged as weak by the USDA in a recent audit.
So you think we can build a 2000 mile fence for 9 million dollars a year? Must be that Republican math.
The Repubs want the FDA gone. How would that be better?
Well, that and “closing a few hundred schools.”
Along with a new tax for people making more than a million dollars a year.
Besides, it’s a great make work project don’t you think? Infrastructure spending can hire lots of people to literally dig a really long ditch. It’s not like there are a shortage of people ready to earn minimum wage to spend 8 hours a day in the sun.
Meanwhile, bridges are literally falling down and 100-year-old water mains are bursting weekly. But the best infrastructure investment is a 2000 mile fence? It would be cheaper to just pay the illegals to stay in Mexico.
Or with 16million unemployed, we could have 4 shifts per week, each standing about 3ft apart.
Well, 4ft if you want a few people in boats.
At federal minimum wage that would be about $232billion per year.
Actually, I think it would be cheaper to have the US government buy a bunch of guns, give them to criminal gangs, then let the gangs kill Mexicans before they even get to the US.
Or hire Mexicans to build the fence on their side, that way we wouldn’t have to pay the federal minimum wage or offer benefits.
<cue Tea Bagger cheering>
Is that like the sound of one hand clapping?
Wait, were you not aware of Operation Fast and Furious? Did that seem like a good use of tax payer funds?
It seems there is no log in a Republican’s eye that cannot be dismissed by pointing out the speck in a Democrat’s eye.
I think raising the minimum wage is just a way to keep income up with planned inflation. So there!
When both have shit in their eyes what’s the difference? If only there was a third party…