Re: Cycling and social policy

On 6/4/2025 5:28 PM, AMuzi wrote:

 If illegal immigrants are working, that's a crime, as is hiring them (and perhaps falsifying payroll data and/or evading payroll taxes).

As you've pointed out many times, laws are far from 100% effective. I'm sure you don't really believe no illegal immigrants have jobs.
And if we were to use elementary accounting principles to evaluate the cost of illegal immigrants, we'd have to examine both sides of the balance sheet. How many industries large and small nationwide save money by hiring people who will do ugly work for very little money? How much is saved that way?
Admittedly, I don't know. But that's how this should be studied. I recall an article a couple years ago telling how after one crackdown, a farmer's tomatoes were rotting in the field. He could find no U.S. citizens willing to do the ugly work of harvesting.
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- Frank Krygowski