Reply #2: Those arrested

[Andy823]

Were illegals from Mexico and South America, around 400 of them. I have had experience with illegals using phony ID and many of those who come here to work using phony ID are minors. There ID says they are older, and many times it's easy to tell that they are not as old as their ID says they are. The problem is that business's like this one try an cut costs by hiring illegals so they don't have to pay benefits, or a decent wage. They don't care how old the person is as long as they are willing to put in long hours and low pay. We need to start going after the business's that hire illegals and abuse them in this way. This company seems to be "one" that will pay the price, but very few end up in court, let alone fined. The Bush administration increased raids to find illegal workers, but in most cases the business go off with a fine and the very most, and not a large one either.

I don't hold it against the people that come here to find work, not since NAFTA was the major cause that many of them lost farms or small business's that they had in their home country. We need stiffer fines, and even jail time for those who hire illegals not tougher punishment for the illegals themselves. If business's did a better job of checking ID we would not have the problem, but for most of the business's that hire them, it's simply a matter of increasing their profits at the expense of the illegal workers they hire, and that needs to stop.