A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words...

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A lot of the problem is exactly *which* folks are actually trying to get here and what their intentions are...by that I mean, the vast majority are doing it illegally, which shows they're not above (below?) breaking the laws...we already have enough lawbreakers here without recruiting more.

The wife and I (along with some others from our church) went on a mission trip to Mexico earlier this year...a pastor at one of the church's we were helping repair had like an 8 year old daughter that had fallen accidently into an open chemical pit (from one of our outsourced plants, of course) on her way home from school...she had chemical burns all over, but one of her legs was severely disfigured, so she needed some special surgery, and they found a doctor to do it, but he was across the border in Texas...it was an expensive surgery, but the doctor agreed to work with them, but they had to get across the border...well, last I knew, they're on their third year of trying to go through the proper channels and spent several thousand dollars (which they didn't have to spare) as well...but NO DICE. Naturally, they're upset, because they said they could've spent a few hundred bucks and hired a "Coyote" to smuggle them across and probably already been there and back, but they knew it wasn't the right thing to do, but that the right thing to do has gotten them no where and their daughter still needs the surgery. They told us point blank they had no desire to stay in the U.S., and most of the folks they knew/associated with felt the same...but there are plenty of folks wiling to break the law and take the easy way out, and those seem to be the majority of the ones we're getting.

Even in our podunk town here in Hillbillyville, I can name off a handful of sawmills that have who knows how many of them employed...the sawmills love 'em, 'cause it dangerous work so insurance and workman's comp and all the other BS love the premiums, but with immigrant work all of that non-sense is negated...just worry about the locals, slip the Mexican *pimp* a few hundred bucks extra each month to make sure you have enough hands to work, and you're in like Flynn.