floyd said:
So. If "they don't pay me enough to do that" maybe the pay is too low?
This pretty well sums up the whole problem.
Or as Pogo said, "We have met the enemy and he is us!"
As long as we, the consumers, go to businesses and spend our money at them, that sell manufactured goods that are not made in the USofA, we are promoting the use of cheap, or illegal labor.
When the labor costs are too high here, businesses will go somewhere else to make their money and/or profit. If they can make as much or more by moving to another country, they will do it. If they can stay here and use illegal immigrants as a work force and pay them a lower wage, and not get caught, they will do it.
If you buy from any business that sells foreign made products, that is one less product that an American manufacturer can sell here. In order to be competitive, the American business has to lower it's costs, and labor is usually the one place that they can do it. So they hire illegals or the move to another country.
Supply and demand. Profit and loss.
If you can buy a Chinese made tractor and get it to do the same job as effectively as an American made one, and save 10 or 20 thousand dollars, so you can make a profit, how many will buy the higher priced tractor?
Supply and demand. Profit and loss.
You can't keep the poor and downtrodden out from the land of milk and honey, with just a few strands of barbed wire and a river, to stop them. Especially if they've got a guy over here who is willing to pay them more than they can make at home. And he will, if he can save those bucks.
Unless you make a way to make it more profitable for him to hire people from his own country. And make it so that the illegals want to stay in their own country, because they can make as good or close to as good a living as he can here.
To me, that is the only way to really stop illegal immigrants.
The American dream. A better life for you and your family. Who wouldn't want that?
JMHO