Assertion: Illegal Immigration negatively impacts the American middle and lower classes for the benefit of corporate entities and rich people.
All this debate going on regarding solving the illegal immigration "problem" largely misses addressing the primary driving force that draws illegal immigrants, jobs. That's right, every small business owner (or large business owner for that matter) that justifies the hiring of illegals in the name of the bottom-line is guilty of condemning America to an ever-widening gulf of economic inequality. Want to solve the problem? Enact legislation that makes it a jail-time felony to hire illegal workers and make sure that the punishment is explicitly applied to C-level executives. For years the business community refused to invest in upgrades to their infosystem architecture in order to secure them, this changed in a hurry when the Sarbanes-Oxley Act made C-level execs PERSONALLY liable for the condition of their data networks and the information contained therein. We don't need to build a bigger fence, or install motion sensitive machine-guns at the border, or come up with a fancy program to integrate illegals into our country (any such motion smacks of creating second-class citizens without the rights and responsibilities that a full-citizen is obligated). We need to punish (HARSHLY) anyone who would be a scofflaw and hire illegals because they work on the cheap, can be fired-at-will, don't get health-insurance, have little to no knowledge of labor laws, are less likely to complaing about the above, and cannot be organized into unions (which in case anyone forgot, are just about the only things standing between us and the misery of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, remember child labor and 80-hour work weeks? That's right you DON'T because the unions made sure that couldn't happen anymore!). Hiring of illegal immigrants is white-collar crime on a grand scale, bigger than Enron, bigger than Tyco, this crime strikes at the heart of American cultural ethos of being able to work an honest day's work and receive an honest day's pay.
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All this debate going on regarding solving the illegal immigration "problem" largely misses addressing the primary driving force that draws illegal immigrants, jobs. That's right, every small business owner (or large business owner for that matter) that justifies the hiring of illegals in the name of the bottom-line is guilty of condemning America to an ever-widening gulf of economic inequality. Want to solve the problem? Enact legislation that makes it a jail-time felony to hire illegal workers and make sure that the punishment is explicitly applied to C-level executives. For years the business community refused to invest in upgrades to their infosystem architecture in order to secure them, this changed in a hurry when the Sarbanes-Oxley Act made C-level execs PERSONALLY liable for the condition of their data networks and the information contained therein. We don't need to build a bigger fence, or install motion sensitive machine-guns at the border, or come up with a fancy program to integrate illegals into our country (any such motion smacks of creating second-class citizens without the rights and responsibilities that a full-citizen is obligated). We need to punish (HARSHLY) anyone who would be a scofflaw and hire illegals because they work on the cheap, can be fired-at-will, don't get health-insurance, have little to no knowledge of labor laws, are less likely to complaing about the above, and cannot be organized into unions (which in case anyone forgot, are just about the only things standing between us and the misery of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, remember child labor and 80-hour work weeks? That's right you DON'T because the unions made sure that couldn't happen anymore!). Hiring of illegal immigrants is white-collar crime on a grand scale, bigger than Enron, bigger than Tyco, this crime strikes at the heart of American cultural ethos of being able to work an honest day's work and receive an honest day's pay.
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