 Employing Undocumented Workers: Left of Center View Illegal aliens, sure remove them from the workforce. By all means, do it. They aren't supposed to be here, they are breaking the law so send them home until they can complete the immigration process legally, but do it across the board. Every one working in the U.S. without proper documentation should be returned to their country of origin. Funny thing is that when you look around many of people arguing against this policy are not the immigrants themselves. Sure, because if the immigrants came out and complained or tried to tell their side of the story they would face immediate deportation. This is exactly why big business needs them here. It's basic economics. To compete with companies located outside the U.S. who have no restrictions on how they exploit their workforce you need a workforce of your own to take advantage of. Sure you can avoid the issue to some extent by contracting out to foreign factories unhindered by labor or environmental regulations like China, and you can go further and outsource as much as possible to India, with the added bonus that your customers will get so fed up with the process that you can eventually eliminate customer service all together. But who will clean your toilet. You certainly don't want to do that yourself, and good luck finding an American willing to do it for five bucks an hour. Besides anybody that you could legitimately find to do the job at that price would probably do a bad job anyway. This is exactly the dilemma the agricultural industry finds itself in. To pay their workers what they should, and to give them the benefits they deserve, they would have to raise food prices, and not just a little but a lot. So we all agree to look the other way, and hey bonus they fix cars, mow lawns and do windows as well. So if you really want to end illegal immigration get ready for a huge lifestyle change. Like a tumor, this situation has been allowed to fester to the point that there is no easy fix. But were coming up on primary season, so let's just slap a Band-Aid on it and hope it goes away. Kyle Pesonen - Staff Writer | E-mail Comments on this column. Got a liberal viewpoint? We want to know what you think. Next week's subject: Integrating Other Cultures Into the American Dream Send in your view from the Left to be our featured Left of Center View for the week. Click here to submit your article. Last Week's View from the Left: Bilingual Education Previous Weeks Views from the Left: The Minutemen Driver's Licenses For Undocumented Immigrants Open Borders Sanctuary Cities Common Sense Laws Rise & Fall Outsourcing & Insourcing English Amnesty vs. Reality Defining Immigration |
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