[jyl]

Wait a minute. So, restaurant A who pays its waitresses minimum wage is forced out of business because restaurant B across the street is staffed with illegal alien waitresses making $4/hour?. Like, the customers don't notice that the waitresses in restaurant B can't speak English and don't know the wine list? Or are you saying that the WalMart Superstore that is forced to pay minimum wage is struggling to compete with that little shop down the street staffed with illegal alien clerks, because the little shop can underprice poor Wal-Mart?.

Quote de Por_sha911

Without illegal immigration going strong, we would have a supply and demand system that forces employers to pay a decent wage to get good workers. There wouldn't be a need for a minimum wage because people would be paid what they are worth. The lowest quality (either no skills or slackers) would make less.

Illegal aliens undercut a law abiding citizen who has to pay taxes, SSI, car insurance, etc.

Well said!

This follows the same idea as buying cheap merchandise from China because their wages are low. In this case, products and more likely, services, are being purchased inside our own borders at low rates from illegals. Granted, some of them have regular jobs and pay taxes, but there is also a sub-economy going on and law abiding companies cannot compete when they are forced to pay a higher wage.