Reply #7: Blaming the UNDOCUMENTED Immigrants Again for Corporate Greed?

[BlueCaliDem]

How can you be so sure they're all "illegal immigrants"?

How can you be so sure they're not undocumented American citizens, or even undocumented LEGAL RESIDENT ALIENS that don't know how immigration laws work therefore don't know that they have rights, let alone how and where to apply for them?

Why are you so quick to blame undocumented immigrants for jobs offered by American businesses when, shouldn't you blame those businesses for hiring undocumented workers at illegally LOW hourly wages to circumvent workman's comp, and other taxes employers must pay for "documented" people, and Americans to save an extra buck here and there?

Sorry that I'm touchy about this subject but I know firsthand that there's a BIG difference between illegal and undocumented status in the States.

For approximately three years, my daughter, born in the Netherlands and here without papers, was IN FACT American Citizen. Just like her Netherlands older brother who, even the INS didn't tell me back in 1984 when I first returned to the States with my Dutch husband, that he (my son) was in fact, an American Citizen through me, and according to United States Department of Justice rules and laws, and not the "permanent resident alien" they pasted on him.

Unlike most immigrants, I can read, and write American English enough to research my rights and those of my children in our local library. How many undocumented immigrant parents don't simply because they just don't know?