1 Sep 2022 12:43 pm
We are in complete agreement in regards to the hiring of illegals. And I would welcome a law (which is actually enforced) which mandates a $5000 fine and 5 years in prison for each count for all those you identified... MANDATORY.ConsRule » 01 Sep 2022, 12:28 pm » wrote: ↑ That assumes every business owner, that is so unethical they are willing to commit a crime, passes the labor savings on the their customer in the form of lower prices.
Do you really not see the flaw in that logic?
I have long been an advocate of coming down hard on any business that uses illegal labor. The laws need to be much harsher than they are, the fines need to be much larger and should be levied against the company and the CEO/Owner jointly and severally...along with the employee being deported to their country of origin within 24 hours.
Where I took exception was in identifying the reason for such legal remedies. Legal immigrant workers do not harm our economy (nor do illegal workers). Their economic impact is a benefit to the nation as a whole. And they most certainly DO NOT harm union workers. Union workers benefit perhaps more than any other. For the most part union labor does not compete with immigrate labor. That is in fact the whole point of unions and the reason they are able to THEMSELVES consume an unjustifiable and disproportionate amount of the nations resources. The whole point of unions is to eliminate any competition in any particular industry. In the vast majority of the cases these unions use unethical tactics to accomplish just that.
It is comparable to a thief (union worker) complaining that a previous customer purchased goods from a merchant before they were able to rob the merchant of those same goods.