Quote:Construction companies (and clothing manufacturing companies, etc.) hire these people illegally so they won't have to pay them $18-25/hr. I agree these companies should be punished (cough Pulte Homes). But if you think Americans will do the menial jobs migrant workers (legal and illegal) do, you are dead wrong. Especially when it comes to working in the field under the hot sun day in and day out. These people fill a hole we won't fill ourselves.

I work in construction and have my whole life other than the time I spent in the Navy...I am currently a project manager for a company building subdivisions and I'm telling you those illegal aliens DO make that money...Most of them send about $800 a week home to Mexico where their families live extremely well...

 

If a company can not fill their staffing requirements they will be forced to either pay more or close up shop and Americans WILL do any job for the right price...If there were no illegal aliens willing to work for sub standard wages, the companies would either fold or pay high enough wages that we would take them...America was founded on farming...Look in the midwest and see how many farmers there are still and Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska...I'm not talking about large corporate farmers like for Delmonte  vegetables, I'm talking about owner operators with a couple hundred acres they farm...My family on both sides come from farming families and I still have Uncles and cousins who own their own farms...There are scores of those kinds of farmers all over the country and they dont hire illegals

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