Reply #43: Why this country is fucked

[sandnsea]

I do everything within my power to avoid exploiting people. I guarantee you if anybody showed up at my house with a truckful of illegals, and you know full well they were, I would send the whole lot on their way. I buy vegetables from a local co-op. I rarely buy anything new.

Hotel and restaurant employees are high school kids and those just out of high school in my town. Of course, Oregon law requires restaurant workers to be paid minimum wage. Restaurant workers make fairly decent money here. We have a couple of small assembly plants and we don't have illegals filling the jobs. I have never understood those arguments from border states because those jobs are filled by US citizens in the rest of the country. Just cheap labor excuses.