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Originally Posted by jest721
The rhetorical answer to this question by any red-blooded American is a reflexive "NO!"
But, hypothetically, if you owned a business, perhaps in manufacturing or the service industry, hiring illegals could be your financial salvation. Certainly paying lower wages would give you a competitive edge (assuming your competitors played by the rules) over the competition.
Would you be willing to let your business go bankrupt or would you hire illegal workers?
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A suvery of 4thousand nursing homes revealed that in nursing homes where the nursing assistance were paid 10-12 dollars an hour the turnover rate was low, care was excellent meaning quality work on the part of the caregiver and those nursing homes actually had to add more beds or buy the other nursing homes who were going bankrupt because they paid low wages and were always being visited by state agency because of family member complaints.
I believe that if an employee is paid a liveable wage, that employee contributes to the economy which also stimulates business growth. This employee will purchase a house unassisted by the government which leaves more money for the government to repair infrastructure so that new businesses can raze up or start up.
If an employee is paid a low wage, that employee will contribute to the economy but is also elgible for foodstamps, mixused housing, free lunch, etc. So, the business owner is going to pay one way or the other. If that employee does purchase a home, its through a government assisted program and the history of those type loans show that these people tend to default within three years after their five year grace period.
So the solution: Hire at the best wage that you can afford and pray.
I believe that any employer with a conscious should think like this. An illegal worker could get hurt on the job. That worker will not go to the hospital in minor cases. Nor does that employer have a workman's comp plan for the employee. They work at their own risk. There are horror stories out there people.
I didn't have an opinion about undocumented workers(illegal aliens) one way or the other until I saw a twelve year old boy whose initial injury was a deep cut that had festered to include his entire leg. He is illegal but he is somebody's baby.
A power worker was standing near a window reading a meter when he smelled an odor inside of a house and reported it. This is how community health got to the scene. Then we discovered other such horror stories that were horror stories to us, but to them, it was just part of their completing whatever objective they have for the family at home in Mexico.
We are still paying for that. We can't deport him now. He can't work either.
His medical costs were very high and absorbed by the local tax payers through our property tax assessment this robs our schools of needed money.
Based on what I saw, all undocumented workers should be returned to their country until they could arrive legally and any american company hiring undocumented workers should be charged with felonious conspiracy to do body harm.
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thats a joke
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