| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | Inmyopinion (10)
07/14/2005 | You can't justify this. I don't. I say they are both at fault. Illegal immigration is a huge problem and the employers are just as responsible if not more for the people coming into the country illegaly.
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 | numbah16tdhaha (152)
06/14/2005 | Hey, I blow off day laborers every day. UPDATE: I'd patrol the border if they let me.
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 | texasyankee (21)
06/01/2005 | I know how to do it. Either you or a friend of yours comes to your job dressed in a uniform (any kind will do) see how many are left standing. All the ones hiding are illegal.EDIT: The price of goods doesn't always mean they are hiring legal people, either. How much was a pair of Guess jeans at one time, 70 bucks, and they had child labor in Honduras or something like that? Can never know, by just price alone.
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 | kamylienne (78)
05/29/2005 | Recently, I've read a few articles regarding illegal immigration which provided a very valid and interesting viewpoint: Americans are addicted to getting stuff cheap. Cheap goods often require cheap labor, and where are employers going to get the cheapest labor around? By paying illegal immigrants next to nothing. Most people don't want illegal immigrants around, but they won't want to pay higher costs to cover the labor, either. Something's gotta give. (For the record, this issue doesn't really concern me all that much in comparison to most other things) (*rating changed to reflect 5=cannot justify)
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 | Sundiszno (30)
05/27/2005 | Not only unjustified, but illogical as well. If we did something to stop employers from hiring illegal immigrants, mushc of the incentive for the illegals to come to this country would be removed. This raises at least a few other issues, such as reforming the welfare system so that we don't pay normally able-bodied people to sit around on their duffs collecting welfare rather than forcing them (excuse me, providing them with an incentive) to go out and take some of the jobs that seem to go to the illegal immigrants. I'd say that things are a mess (which they are), but it's not as though, at least conceptually or in principle, it's too tough to figure out how to fix it.
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 | Jar-Jar Binks (16)
05/27/2005 | It cannot be justified. It's the right-wingers playing a petty game and screwing our minds. Don't blame us liberals. We didn't start this mess.
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 | Randyman (105)
05/26/2005 |  While I certainly agree we have to control our borders, I just can't agree with armed citizens, especially those without proper training, patrolling the borders of Arizona and taking the law into their own hands, that is vigilantism. Nor am I without some empathy for illegal immigrants. These are not hardened criminals, but rather families looking for a better way of life. But yes, wrong is wrong. What confuses me is the lack of desire and unwillingness to stop employers from hiring illegal immigrants. Helmut, I understand your point, we shouldn't have to eliminate any reasons for them to come. Agreed. But as a tax paying American citizen, I have every right to expect the law to be enforced. And it is against the law to hire undocumented and illegal immigrants. The law is the law. The greater crime is being commited by companies that hire illegal immigrants. But for the hiring practice, there would be no undocumented workers in this country. That is undisputable. At least I am consistant. Enforce the law!
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 | CanadaSucks (48)
05/26/2005 | A tough one. . .to be frank, I haven't thought about this much. . .a real thoughtful listing.
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 | TJGypsy2 (7)
05/26/2005 | Jed, I think what is being said here is that people know that certain companies have a history of hiring illegal immigrants, but they will still shop at those companies, even as they're ranting and raving about the evils the illegal immigrants are wreaking upon our country. I for one am NOT angry with illegal immigrants, because I can appreciate the fact that they are doing a lot of hard, dirty work that you're average american finds it beneath themselves to do. I truly think the results would be catastrophic if we ever actually succeed in getting rid of all of them, or even of stopping all of them from coming in. Vfern: Very well said. I agree completely. Update: A really good example of this, to me, would be my take on United Airlines. I completely disagree with them dissolving the pension plans, and with what they've done to their employees. So the last few times I've flown anywhere, I used an airline other than United, even though United was cheaper. I realize that this doesn't necessarily pertain to illegal immigrants, but it does pertain to expressing your opinion of someone's business practices in a way they'll notice.
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 | helmut (16)
05/26/2005 | It shouldn't be they employers' responsibility to keep these people out of the country by eliminating the reason to come. Our nations employers and effectively our economy should not be expected to go broke because of benevolence. It's like complaining that McDonalds doesn't offer anything healthy and ordering a super sized Big Mac meal.
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 | Jed1000 (73)
05/26/2005 | How is your average employee supposed to know about his fellow employees' backgrounds? I work with lots of people but I didn't hire any of them. I have to assume (not having access to employee personnel records) that everyone is working legally.
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 | PlanetaryGear (52)
05/25/2005 | There is no justification for this. Period.
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