“This is sort of a gray area”
No it isn’t. If you or I were immigrating to America we would follow the process and it would be black and white. It’s only “gray” to those who want to be criminals and cut the line, and no self-respecting American should have sympathy or want to do “chesed” for them.
“as many people in the country hire such aid”
They should all be prosecuted, then we wouldn’t have this crisis.
“Why not start with a position”
Why not start with the position that people have been touting since 2016 with their Trump antics? If people want to be liberal and pro-open-boarders, that’s another story. They’re entitled to their opinion, but don’t pretend to be hardliners of immigration then cave the second you might have to pay a couple of dollars more to employ a real American instead of giving our jobs away to criminals.
What bewilders me is that I know from other posts that many of you are big Trump fans, yet you are shocked to see the rhetoric of someone who actually has conservative opinions on immigration.
JR87: The minimum wage thing really isn’t even the main point. The point is that they’re paying below the true going rate, which should be calculated by the supply and demand of legal, tax-paying labor, not criminals. If I were willing to rob my local grocery store, does that mean the going rate of bread is now $0? What illegals are willing to accept is irrelevant to the non-criminal economy. That fact that you like breaking this particular law does not change that reality.