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Originally Posted by PoorMansCamaro

They can fill the job just as good becoming legal. How exactly is it a benefit for an illegal to have a job in America? You think that just because they become legal, they will demand more money? That's a negative. There is no reason for anyone to be illegal in this country, except to take advantage of our system...

EDIT: I don't want this to sound like I'm bashing on PoorMansCamaro since I used his comments to write the below:

The spirit of this newly enacted law here in Alabama (Roll Tide) is to make sure our businesses are hiring personnel that are legally here. I will quote Mike Rowe in his address as saying 'The average laborer, electrician, plumber, tradesman, it 55 years old in Alabama.' There is no one that seems willing to do these type jobs. Now, what I've seen here in Alabama, there are a lot of businesses that are doing some shady things and hiring folks that are not here legally.

The benefits to being illegal and have a job? Well, sir, I pay social security. They don't. I pay medicare. They don't. I pay my federal and state taxes. They don't. I put my earned money back into the economy. Most of the illegals send it back home, therefore it is not reinvested back into the economy of America. That should offend anyone who sees a deduction in there hard earned pay that not everyone is on the same playing field, yet to most, it goes unnoticed. Will they demand more money? Don't know. But you start taxing their pay and their just making it beforehand; Yeah, they'll want more money.

There are different ways to look at laws such as these. You can say racial profiling all day long, but I disagree. This is a check on businesses just as a bar owner better have his liquor license and his bartenders have their ABC cards. Do laws such as these have a significant chance of being abused? Oh, hell yeah!

I'll treat a person as a person; with respect. I've taught my kids that. And if you think I'm blowing smoke, my wife of 23 years is Spanish. From Spain. Has had a permanent resident visa since 1994. (math is we lived in Germany when married and came to US in 1994) 2-3 years ago she applied for and received her citizenship. Is it difficult? Lot of running around and several visits to Dept of Homeland Security, but it's doable. Does it cost money? Absolutely!

I just want an even playing field. We all should. Do illegals get treated like shit by some employers ~ hell yeah! And it isn't right. People are people, period.