By Martin C. Boire
www.TruthForUs.com
May 2, 2007

If we were to turn A Day Without Illegals into A Country Without Illegals, the American National Family would have quality of life again.

As part of Tuesday’s immigration strike, none of the Mexican roofers, plasterers, tile setters, or landscapers, worked construction that day in a large community being built by a major builder in Port Orange, Florida.

What it showed me was how many of illegals are among us.

What it also showed me was how many American jobs they have displaced and the money sucked out of our National Family and sent elsewhere. It is not true that illegal aliens fill only unwanted jobs and don’t take jobs away from Americans.

The subcontractor jobs mentioned above used to be held by folks who live here in my town. 

The illegals got their jobs by underbidding the local legals.  Those local legals of course are our neighbors, people who paid their workers compensation and unemployment taxes and employed other local men and woman who have families, and pay property taxes to pay for the government services we all like to have.

The these local families are covered by workers compensation insurance in case they are injured, afford a fairly recent car, money for the kid’s sports, school trips, a Summer vacation. These are the simple things that provide the quality of life which we tout as our standard of living. The things it takes a job to pay for.

But bidding against illegal aliens is not competition because they do not have to carry the same costs. It is not the same as bidding against another companies which bear the same legal requirements and enforceability.  Which is why some with stamina has started suing companies using and hiring illegals under state-level Unfair and Deceptive Trade acts or Practices laws.

It’s like bidding a contract to supply car parts, and knowing that while your competitor is going to have to buy them, you have a source for stolen parts.

The local workers were underbid by contractors and subcontractors that employ untraceable illegals. And because they employ illegals, they can pay substandard wages, and avoid carrying workers compensation insurance because for all the obvious reasons their workers won’t complain if they are hurt on the job, and no one can trace them through social security numbers, or normal names and addresses. That is, they are unaccountable.

The scam works all across America as follows:   Workers compensation law allows the one or two owners of a company to exclude themselves from having to pay for workers compensation insurance since they are the owners not hired-on workers.  These unAmerican contractors and subcontractors have one or two traceable people who qualify for the work, and bid it on the basis of not needing any employees for workers compensation and insurance purposes.

They then staff the job site with six unaccountable illegals to do the work, because that is how many the job actually takes if they were to bid it properly.  The local worker who is traceable, findable, jailable, would have to actually employ those six people and declare and pay all of these costs.   He or she cannot afford to bid the job at the price it really takes to pay the six workers it really takes to do the job.  The illegal can bid it at the price of two workers, knowing he has a hidden resource to do the job that the legal company does not.

This has forced the local subcontractors to lower their wages and fudge on their worker compensation, in order to compete with untraceable unfindable people and get any work. And when the workers compensation and insurance people periodically want to make a show of enforcement, the local legal is the only one they can pinpoint to punish. They don’t even know where the aliens stay, and can’t prove anything.  It’s just too hard and there is not enough manpower in the department that oversees workers compensation.

And so in the end the only way to compete is for small local legal American contractors and subcontractor and their workers to lower their standard of living to that of the illegals. Less pay, older cars, smaller houses, less workers compensation protection, less health coverage, no vacation. 

The legal local workers reach a point where they have cut all corners they can legally cut, cannot afford to stay in business legally, and are unwilling to do so illegally.

And many local companies and subcontractors who could not lower standards and protections to a low enough level to win the contracts have gone out of business. 

Many of them now work at Lowes(r) and Home Depot(r) underneath product banners printed in Spanish as well as English.   

And the work of their closed small local companies now goes to the illegals who send the money home.

And now the illegals are marching en masse in plain view in our streets and blackmailing us to let all of their fellow illegals in.

Is this any way to run a country and have the quality of life we and our forebears worked so hard to attain?

We need to get our National Family’s house in order if we want to have a nice home.

Otherwise, revolution and bloodshed may eventually ensue.

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By Martin C Boire
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Our National Family will lose our culture, or morals, and our security if illegal immigration across the US-Mexican Border is not stopped.

To date, all have done little, because each is afraid of offending the other and because the political parties see illegals as either votes or cheap low-end labor.[1]

To date, neither political party has focused on the long term cultural cost, security cost, and risk to respect for our laws and borders.

This poignantly dishonors the many American soldiers who have died over the centuries to establish and protect our borders, and who lie buried here and abroad.  When our politicians allow people to walk all over our borders, it spits in the face of those our nation presently ask to risk their lives defending our nation.

Yet if the political will exists, protecting America by stopping the mass migration across our border is very simple:

The US government should simply enact a law providing a reward to any American reporting a business or person who employs an illegal alien. The free market system would take care of the rest. Sound harsh?

Well, the US Government already gives a percentage to Americans for reporting tax fraud. Is the penetration of our boards by non-citizens more or less serious? Federal, state, and local governments also pay rewards to citizens anonymously reporting crimes.

And fines already exist for hiring illegal aliens, and forms proving non-illegality of each employee are already required to be maintain by employers. The problem is discovering who is hiring them (and thus creating the attraction for them to come here) because many are paid of the books.

The reward could simply be a percentage of the fine and civil penalty recovered, paid to anyone reporting an employer or person who employs an illegal alien. Or it could be a flat-rate payment, to be recouped by the government once the fine is levied. In the end $500 or $1,000 a head would probably be cheaper than police costs.

If there is concern that it would too large a number of cases for the government to handle, I would first point out that that admits the extent and danger of the problem we are confronting, and second that it can be easily solved by establish by law an alternative forum to process them. If there is concern that there are not enough government lawyers to process the cases, designate a fixed a percent of the fine for private lawyers to prosecute and defend.

The demand for illegal workers among employers would disappear overnight, because the economic risk to the business or person illegally employing them would exceed the anticipated gain.

The attraction among some of the people South of the border to come illegally to the US for jobs would disappear overnight because the jobs would dry up overnight.

Not finding work, the illegals already would start to filter back home, turn to crime or go underground until friends or relatives here, got tired of supporting them and they returned home. This could be prevented by also making it a rime, and providing stiff fines, for harboring, housing, or aid and abetting an illegal alien.

Then would come the moment of truth.

If Americans wanted the jobs being performed by illegals, the unemployment rate would drop because they would take those jobs. If the jobs were beneath the desire of unemployed Americans, the jobs would remain unfilled. And if there was a demand for the goods or services created by those unfilled positions, then the market would demand that they be filled.

A law could then provide that people living legally in their countries South of our border who wanted to come work legally within the borders of America, must apply in their own country for a temporary work permit, and thus be properly registered for admission into the US and monitoring after entry. To avoid an abusive stampede, an initial group permanently hold all of the available positions, there should be a quota system, or a time limit on each worker to allow others to come work as well.

The law should provide that marrying or having a child here will not convert them to US citizens. This will keep it an honest work program, not a migration program. Permanent green cards should not be granted.

Under this arrangement, they could come here as proper persons.

We would be protected.

They would be protected.

They would earn more and be abused less.

Congress’ enacting a law like this would put all sides of this argument to the test, including the jobs and economics are argument advanced by the Mexican and other governments South of our border.

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[1] It is commonly believed that the Democratic Party likes the votes and doesn’t want to alienate a large slice of their US voting block which has relatives and friends South of the border. And, with motor-voter laws, and drivers licenses being issued to illegals, they perceive it as an avenue to assist their party strength. 

It is commonly believed the Republican Party is busy trying to look compassionate, attract legal Hispanic voters, and also tend to go along with business which see the Illegals as a cheap source of low-end labor (without much thought to the long term cost).

Neither is acting in the interest of our National Family.

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