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Illegal Aliens Do the Jobs Americans Won't Do -- NOT

Posted by The MaryHunter at November 28, 2009 8:50 AM

If every illegal alien left the country tomorrow, we'd still build new homes and grow fruit and (reluctantly) vegetables. How? By leveling the playing field. When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted raids on cheating employers who got ahead by hiring illegal workers and paying them illegal wages, some amazing things started to happen...

* Swift & Company meat-processing plants lost about nine percent of their workforce when they were raided in six states. After the raids, Swift raised their pay by almost two dollars an hour and hundreds of residents lined up the next day to take the jobs illegal aliens used to have.

* Crider Inc., a chicken-processing company in Stillmore, Georgia, suddenly raised their pay to more than a dollar an hour over what they were paying illegal aliens. About 400 unemployed people showed up for interviews, half of whom were subsequently hired.

But you might say "Glenn - what will happen to consumer prices if corporations can't pay sub-par wages to illegal employees?" Not so fast. Illegals put far more of a financial burden on our nation than can be compensated for by slightly lower food prices:

Our nation spends more than $4.7 billion a year on health care for illegal aliens and California has been forced to close over 70 hospitals over the last ten years alone. About 17 percent of all those in federal prison are illegal aliens -- an astonishing number when you consider that they represent only three percent of the population. ... We're also spending about $30 billion each year to educate illegal aliens in our schools -- money we could probably use to figure out how to educate our own children since we're doing such a miserable job at it right now.
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/11/beck_bits_illeg.html