Originally posted by The Davis:
You should be blaming the companies that hire them instead and use that excuse as a cop-out.



i agree, but not wholey. its not only construction companies. how many people have or know someone who has a mexican/salvadoran maid or gardener? if you know someone who does, you should demand that they produce evidence of legal residency and work papers or threaten to call INS on them. not to mention all the farms, car washes, restaurants etc... i drive by Home Depot a few times a day. out of all the times i drive by i always see tons of guys out there waiting for a contractor to pick them up. never once have i seen a white or black guy out there with them. they prefer to stand at the freeway onramps begging for change

its a two way street, if not threeway. they come for the work, illegally. the employers hire them for peanuts, illegally. and we reap the benefits, legally. Im sorry if you hate to hear the "excuse" or "cop out" or whatever you want to call it but the fact remains that these are the only people willing to leave their families for a year, to hop on a bus, and do ardous work in the sun for peanuts. am i endorsing it? no. im only stating the facts. i too wish everyone could all be legal and we could hold hands and walk down the street together singing Cumbayah while eating corn on the cob.

Originally posted by Tourgasm:
Sometimes you can mess up a word so bad that spell check doens't know what the hell you're talking about.