Reply #20: There's no question that it's the cheap-labor employers at the core

[TahitiNut]

... of the problem. To them, I say "If you want to hire Mexican citizens, move to Mexico and if you want to hire Chines citizens, move to China!"

If anyone really wanted to put a lid on this problem, they'd merely infiltrate the 'undocumented' (illegal) work force and start imprisoning the employers and the facilitators. It's obviously no mystery to these 6 million or so people where they can get employed for cheap wages and a wink and a nod. At the same time, the federal minimum wage needs to be increased to about $7.50 ... covering far more jobs of those that've been allowed to slip through the cracks.

"Importing" labor from impoverished countries is in every way, shape, and form the moral equivalent of treating human labor as a commodity - which is both immoral and illegal.