Illegals Continue To Stream In Across The Border And The Debate Goes On...

[Times Roman]

Wow...it makes me wonder just how suck @$$ it must be where they come from for this type of scenario to be a step up for them in their life.

I had a manufacturing plant in Baja California (Mexico). We subcontracted out work through a vendor. I found out that the worker was only getting 200 pesos a week. A little mental arithmetic tells me that is about $20 USD per week.

So if two of these illegal blokes share a $15/hour job, that comes out to something like $300/week each, or 15x more than the Mexican inspectors would expect to make.

What would you do if you could increase your salary 15x and not watch your family go hungry?

[Honkey_Kong]

I had a manufacturing plant in Baja California (Mexico). We subcontracted out work through a vendor. I found out that the worker was only getting 200 pesos a week. A little mental arithmetic tells me that is about $20 USD per week.

So if two of these illegal blokes share a $15/hour job, that comes out to something like $300/week each, or 15x more than the Mexican inspectors would expect to make.

What would you do if you could increase your salary 15x and not watch your family go hungry?

I don't blame those workers one bit for coming to America for whatever chump change we'll offer them. What bothers me is that we have that NAFTA going on or we'll do business with China and other countries that exploit labour like that or worse.

America is consuming the products these people produce, therefore we have a moral obligation to not contribute to the unfair treatment of these people. It's that treatment that contributes to these people's willingness to risk life and limb to come to America illegally and take these jobs for less than minimum wage. I'm sure it'll fall on deaf ears because people are just concerned with getting the new TV and not where it comes from.