“TARGET THE EMPLOYERS”
by One Pissed-off Vietnam Vet
(Nov. 18, 2011) — The first surprise that new arrivals to our country express is “I don’t believe it, you can get breakfast twenty-four hours a day!” There was a time when semi trucks worked a radius so the drivers were home every night, and if they did make a cross-country run, like a moving van, you always could tell where the inexpensive but good motels and diners were by the number of big rigs parked in front. America was, before the completion of the interstate highway system, pretty much a small town/rural community with specific pockets of big city. I lived in a suburb of Chicago, and between each town there were farms. As a matter of fact, my town even had a dairy.
But America, being America, everything had to be BIGGER. I’m not saying better, I’m saying bigger. Take, as a good example, the motorcycle. Someone at some time decided that the front forks had to be extended a little bit more, not for any advantage in handling characteristics, but for pure esthetics: thus was born the “chopper.” Some bikes had such long forks they had to display the same sign sixty-foot trailers have: CAUTION – WIDE TURNS.
The same growth to bigness extended to farms and orchards, too (at this point the “Death Tax” becomes an important tool for Big Business). When I was growing up, I could always find work during the summer or on weekends during harvest time. One job I had was throwing hay bales to the guy on the trailer being towed by the John Deere. All day, for five straight days, sunrise to sundown. I was 14 and, even though there might’ve been some laws on the books for child labor and “overtime,” the hay bales don’t know that, and even if they did, they wouldn’t have cared anyway. The product produced on a farm has to be harvested; there’s no waiting.
The North always had the transportation, manufacturing centers, and a skilled labor force; the South never had a chance. Even when the Battle of Gettysburg took place, Northern companies were producing end tables, hope chests and plows, while the South was hard-pressed for bandages. After the Civil War and all the way up to after World War II, Northern population centers grew and farms became the target of conglomerates, supporting the Death Tax, so what was once a collection of 100-acre farms, or orchards, was now measured in thousand-acre parcels. From a farmer hiring the local teenagers at harvest time, big-time companies found it cheaper to import migrants from south of the border. Then when harvest season ended, there were always businesses looking for cheap labor in poultry and meat-packing plants, construction, and other services that were concluded by a contract, as night custodians of airports: cheap labor, no need to “speakee” English, just work for less than minimum wage, no benefits. Lots of money was saved by using unskilled, unqualified labor that the employer didn’t have to pay in the kitty of workman’s comp, health, unemployment, Social Security and others. Such money, inevitably, sooner or later, makes its way into the greedy hands of law enforcement and politicians. Illegal immigration is a billion-dollar enterprise in the United States. Many people benefit handsomely by additional services required (jobs) to blatant cash payoffs to the people who do not enforce Federal Immigration Laws. Politicians turn the other cheek when illegals vote, and vote often. The losers in this equation the American worker and taxpayer.
The solution to stopping illegal immigration in the United States is to target the employers of illegals. Any person who employs an illegal immigrant will serve six months in jail per illegal employee. If you run a lawn care business and employ ten illegals, you’re going to jail for five years. END of STORY.
Running parallel to illegal voting is the proxy vote cash represents. Say I can’t legally vote, I heap cash on my pick. This works for international corporations as well. Money earned overseas represents the will of foreigners. It ought to stay in their home countries not be invested in men who use it for power and fancy. I could name quite a few men who fit that profile and work very hard at getting their favorite political ideology into power. While I see immigration as a broad term covering the status of non-citizens who are not entitled to any benefit of our nation, only the unalienable rights, states, particularly the border states have a greater responsibility to not abuse that for economic or political gain just because they can.