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Originally Posted by McLovin
Also, would you, as a pathetic liberal, be in favor of law enforcement checking in with the HR depts of these garment, ag, restaurant, bizs to make sure their employee paperwork is in order?
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Absolutely! In my line of work (enforcing labor law), it is VERY frustrating to notice that laws protecting workers take a distant back seat to laws (absence thereof)promoting commerce and profits. In America, Freedom of Commerce is our most cherished value. America attempts to build fences on the Mexican border, even though that is MASSIVELY expensive and unlikely to prevent entry because the alternative (which would be FAR more effective) is unthinkable. It is unthinkable that we would require Business to play a meaningful role, for at least two reasons (excuses). First, it would cost them staff time. Second, it would eliminate the workers they like the best. Immigrants work harder than American citizens, and they require far less pay.
And for those of you who appear to believe our Mexican guests are lazy, how 'bout you come up here for the fruit harvests in the Yakima area. Work along side those brown-faced families in triple-digit temps. It has been tried before, and those people are super-human in terms of their physical ability to delivery production in those conditions.
But anyway, the real theme of this particular post is to communication my longstanding professional battle with the forces of commerce, at the legislative and the administrative government level, to pursue the protection of workers. Cheating workers is a side-benefit in the construction industry. A gentleman's game. A fun and entertaining and lucrative practice that almost never gets caught, and the penalties are laughable. When the subject comes up at the legislative branch, the Business Lobby absolutely CRUSHES any and all regulations like this (immigration). The fact remains that illegals come here for the money. For the jobs. And that works nicely for Business. And that is why we're wasting colossal money building silly fences that will not impact the inflow of cheap labor.