Illegal-worker crackdown

A Mount Pleasant landscaper faces a $24,000 state fine for alleged violations of the South Carolina Illegal Immigration Reform Act, officials said Thursday.

[Karma]

FINALLY!!!

[Speeders are Murderers]

$24,000 is peanuts compared to what he made by employing illegals. Throw him in prison.

[Becky]

I bet the man wouldn't fill 50% of the position after he has to let everybody go... even in a bad economy. You cant find Americans to do that kinda work.

[Speeders are Murderers]

Becky wrote:

I bet the man wouldn't fill 50% of the position after he has to let everybody go... even in a bad economy. You cant find Americans to do that kinda work.

BS. I did it when i was young. Doesn't matter anyway since landscaping is not some essential occupation.

[kobadger]

Becky wrote:

I bet the man wouldn't fill 50% of the position after he has to let everybody go... even in a bad economy. You cant find Americans to do that kinda work.

You've got it backwards friend. Americans can and WILL do that work but no,we ain't doin it for THOSE single digit wages!! I hope the man loses everything he owns as a result of this,I sincerely mean that!!

[kobadger]

Speeders are Murderers wrote:

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BS. I did it when i was young. Doesn't matter anyway since landscaping is not some essential occupation.

Not more than ten years ago Landscaping was a damned good business. I had several friends who went out here at West Georgia College and got degrees in Horticulture before opening their own business. They did quite well until they could no longer compete with the straw bosses poppin up out of nowhere and hiring illegal labor while renting thier equipment/trucks etc. rather than owning them. When "straw bosses" are caught by Police hiring illegal's,they get hit HARD!!

[LANCE OXYER]

MAKE EXAMPLE OUT OF HIM, MAX FINES ,MAX PRISION, THAT WILL START WAKING UP, THESE EMPLOYERS , WHO PAY IN CASH, THEN THE MEXICANS,WHO , ARE USUALLY ON WALFARE, SENDING THEIR KIDS TO OUR SCHOOLS, OVERBURDEN OUR ECONOMY, GETTING BENEFITS , THAT LAWFUL PEOPLE CANT,I HAVE 10 ILLIGALS LIVING ACROSS THE STREET FROM ME ,ALL ON WALFARE, LIVING SECTION 8 FOR FREE ,I HAD A STROKE AND 100% DISABLED , NO MONEY ,AND I CANT GET ASSISTANCE,AND I PAID MY TAXES FOR 35 YR, SO WATS WRONG ?????

[FedUpWithIllegal s]

Becky wrote:

I bet the man wouldn't fill 50% of the position after he has to let everybody go... even in a bad economy. You cant find Americans to do that kinda work.

Here in my area, I see college students doing landscape work all the time. The difference is the RATE OF PAY. If landscape operators pay decent wages, American kids will grab those jobs. They get to work out in the sunshine and earn extra money for car payments.