Since illegal aliens are paid wages way below the minimum wage and are offered no benefits, where is the incentive to not allow them into the country.Both businesses and the aliens are breaking the law?
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This is a very good question and I always think about this when the immigration issue is brought up. I think that the immigration issue is nothing but something to keep the politicos in the news, especially during election time. If you were to say, open the border and let more aliens in legally, then perspective employers are subject to labor laws. If you close the border completely, you have fewer laborers willing to work below the minimum wage. I think that if either scenario were to occur, there would be deep economic impacts, especially in the farming industry. There are a huge number presumably, of illegal aliens in California. Roughly 90% of all food consumed in the US is grown in California. Now think about it, a lack of cheap labor would result in an increase in the cost of food on a national level. I think for that reason, the issue will never really be solved. It would be an economic disaster. Just my opinion.
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Legal residents' opportunities are being affected in the produce, restaurant and construction industry (mostly in the latter two) to mention a few. The middle class workers' wages and benefits are depressed because they cannot compete with illegal workers who are less skilled but willing to work for less and who won't cause a fuss. Strangely, illegal workers hurt many legal immigrants with low skills, many of their own countrymen who made the effort to be legal. Also, low-skilled Americans are pushed out of the job market as well. Since employers offer no benefits to these workers (except the ones committing fraud via identity theft, etc.), you and I pickup the slack via taxes to provide health benefits, schools, public services, sewage treatment plants, gas and other energy sources, housing , etc, for them. The middle class is paying for the profits made by big business....
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They are not being paid way below minimum wage. They are being paid without benefits or extras that an employer would have to pay for legal workers. The employer benefits because he/she doesn't have to pay worker's comp or vacation time and things like that. Illegal workers do accept lower wages but not much lower. And yes, they are both breaking the law.
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"They are not being paid way below minimum wage....Illegal workers do accept lower wages but not much lower." idne, you are incorrect in your assumption. Having worked with several illegals over a period of many, many years I have found that they are wlling to work for as little as half of the legal minimum hourly wage. To answer the question, there is no incentive to employers. But due to the HUGE drain on the social services (paid for by taxpayers) there is an incentive to not allow them n the country.
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when i worked on a apple farm i worked with some illegal mexicans and they made just as much as me. where i live minimum wage is $6.15 per hour and we were making $8.90 per hour. the only thing is that we did not get paid over time. 80 hours a week at strait pay.
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