No, we don’t need illegal immigrants
to do jobs Americans ‘won’t’

Right after the tech wreck, and I was laid off and replaced by an H1-B hire from India, I said that the problem is there aren't enough American engineers to fill the jobs, but there aren't enough American employers willing to pay American engineers competitive salaries. I can leverage this, and the article. There aren't enough employers willing to pay Americans enough to get them to do the jobs. In addition, there are greedy companies, as the author states, that hire cut-rate labor, and don't care if they get cut-rate results.

A sausage factory (Hormel or Jimmy Dean - don't remember) built a factory in our small town. Lots of unemployed, able-bodied people. However, they weren't hired. You guessed it - immigrants (illegal or not) were hired and transported almost an hour from the closest major city. Even though the wages were barely above minimum wage, the people in our area would have been glad for the work, but no they paid those same wages to immigrants. The company claimed they couldn't hire enough locals to do the work. They found ridiculous reasons not to hire people locally. Oh and they got all kinds of tax breaks for putting that plant in a small rural town. Those tax breaks should have been tied to them having to hire locally.

We need the able bodied Americans we are paying to do nothing to do the work the illegals are doing.

We used the same reason to move many of our manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies to China. For an advanced example of this wrongheaded philosophy, look at what illegals from the Middle East and North Africa are doing to Germany right now, nothing short of killing the country. I'm only annoyed at finding out that I could have gotten out of cleaning the garage and cutting the grass over the weekend, I could have hired Hector and Juan to do it.

Classic self-fulfilling prophesy. Destroy the market value for labor by importing third world laborers then declare that citizens won't do those jobs at third world rates. Same for trade. Purchase products made by 12 year old slaves on dirt floors then complain that Americans can't compete.

Let employees get paid in cash with no paperwork to the feds, no benefits, no taxes withheld (e.g. SS and FICA), and no taxable income (similar to how many illegal aliens are hired and paid - or the kid down the street who mows your yard) and see how many Americans would be willing to do jobs "Americans won't do" while keeping labor costs to the employer low.

I fault the companies that hire illegals. Spare me the canard about how wonderful the private sector is when companies; large and small, focus solely on the bottom line. Nothing wrong with making a profit but when you do it at the expense of your fellow Americans - screw you. Of course many companies want cheaper labor but that usually means less skilled labor and people too afraid or too ignorant to report problems with their employer such as unsafe working conditions, etc.

If we controlled only legal immigration, the problem could be managed. If we actually enforced e-verify, it would cut the illegal invasion in half. The solution is obvious. Fine employers a massive fine fine for every day an illegal is found working for them.Something like $5,000 per day. The employers will squeal "but they had "proof" that they were legal. Tough s***. It's up to you to verify that your employee was here legally so pull out your checkbook and pay up or close up. The law could be written to exclude individuals hiring help like a maid or lawn service, just corporations with more than 5 employees similar to laws requiring employers to have workers compensation insurance on employees. Non-corporations could be exempt from this but if over the five employees or whatever the number decided on but not incorporated companies would be liable for injuries on the job. Even now, if a company avoids the workers comp law by not incorporating even though the law requires it, the company owners can be held personally liable for employee injuries. If the will by congress to actually enforce e-verify as it should be, half the illegals working here would drop significantly . Some businesses will always slide by but some real enforcement even now would make a huge difference. . Most large businesses cannot afford to not be incorporated for a number of legal reasons. "But who will pick our cotton" as they said in 1860 but plenty of northern businesses also used slaves at the time. Not only slaves, but immigrants like the Irish were first used as if they were almost slaves or exploited as indentured servants. Apologies for the long rant. Trump has made a big start by closing the border and letting ice do its job. I am no fan of more government but many companies are well aware that they are taking advantage of the system by padding the bottom line by skirting the law.

there are still 'indian agents' teaching millions of indians to dodge weave game our system=to Death.