Illegal Invitation
Greed of the Business Community
By Daniel Muniz

We want to bring in as much cheap labor as humanly possible now, next year, and forever more to fatten our wallets and we want everyone else to pick up the tab for it. If it puts American workers out of a job, we don't care. If it drives their wages down, so much the better, because that means we make more money. If we have to leave the borders open and risk another 9/11, that's fine with us. If we have to get the bill through by demonizing as racists the very people who have staunchly defended us on issue after issue, it doesn't bother us a bit.

...These businesses that are knowingly hiring massive numbers of illegals are criminal enterprises, not much different from crack dealers in my book, and not only do I want to see them getting fined, I want to see the people running those companies doing hard time in a federal penitentiary.

John Hawkins – Right Wing News

When the debate over illegal immigration ignited, I felt that the battle would go nowhere. In essence, everything would stay the same or there would be an across the board amnesty. And the reason for my pessimism is that Republicans have always been their own worst enemy.

With the clever use of smoke and mirrors, the wrong problems were attacked and the wrong solutions were introduced.

The rank and file in the GOP did not want to admit that it was the business community that invited illegal aliens by the millions to our country. And the reason for this invitation was out of pure greed. Conservatives have always been staunch allies of the “Chamber of Commerce” crowd and the biggest defenders of free enterprise. The fatal weakness of too many conservatives is the inability to accept the concept of greed and the harsh realities that unfolded. It just became easier to blame the illegal alien which is exactly what the business community wanted.

But in truth, there is no invasion of illegal aliens from Mexico although business leaders are delighted when such allegations are made because it deflects attention from the source of the real problem of illegal immigration.

Securing the border and enforcing our immigration laws is desperately needed to fight illegal immigration but again, that is wrong solution.

The problem and the solution has always been the business community.

Illegal aliens are not here to get their picture taken by the Golden Gate Bridge or to visit the Empire State Building. They are here for jobs and they have been invited by the multitude of companies that are willing to give them work. For decades, these businesses have been able to easily circumvent our immigration laws which have allowed millions of illegal immigrants to set up shop here.

But worse, the business community has hijacked the Republican Party. The Chamber of Commerce crowd holds tremendous influence over party leaders and their financial contributions to GOP politicians have made Republican officeholders arrogant and insulated from the conservative movement.

The biggest supporters of illegal immigration do not come from the Democratic Party but from the Republican Party. Yet, too many conservatives have been reluctant to make war against their own leadership because of the solid alliance that has been forged between the Chamber of Commerce and the GOP. In addition, the business community has also played a huge role with conservatives attacking the wrong targets.

Greed is also a difficult premise for some conservative to accept. Accusations of greed have always been hurled by liberals so it was natural for conservatives to reject them. But with so many companies hiring illegal aliens, this is an accusation that is actually true.

Money makes people do things that violate their principles and their integrity. And the prospect of making a lot more money with cheap labor while undermining your competitors can make people do the wrong things. Yet, up until now, hardly any employers have been arrested or have been sentenced to prison. Our dysfunctional immigration laws made flouting the system rather easy so employers took full advantage of that.

However, the cost of cheap labor is far too expensive for our country to bear. Our health care system is bursting through the seams with millions of illegal aliens who do not have insurance. There are millions of uninsured motorists who do not have car insurance who are illegal aliens. Our education system is also burdened by educating the millions who are the children of illegal aliens. And because so many municipalities refuse to prosecute criminals who are illegal immigrants, these people brazenly walk our streets looking to commit more crimes.

The list of social problems goes on and on but the business community doesn’t care because the costs are being passed on to the taxpayer. And worse, by living in plush luxurious neighborhoods, they are not exposed to the problems of illegal immigration that the rest of the nation and the common man have to face.

If conservatives want to make real progress on stopping illegal immigration, then it is time for more influential right-wingers to step up to the plate and start pointing the finger at the business community.

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