The real cost of illegals

Over at Enlighten there is an interesting post on what the true cost of illegals are to the New Jersey taxpayer from strickly an education standpoint. The quote from assembly member Micheals

That's one hell of a price to pay for a cheap short order cook.

This quote is the entire crux of the illegal issue. Who really benefits from illegal immigration. I know you think it's the local contractor or your landscaper, and they do, but not nearly as much as Walmart, Perdue, Tyson foods, Barnes and Noble and a hundred other large scale American Corporations. Here's the scam in New Jersey and I'm sure it works like this in other states as well.

An illegal goes to one of the staffing agencies that provides help for the big distribution centers down off of exit 8A or for a cleaning crew of the named above companies. The staffing agencey has the illegal fill out an I9 and copies the illegal's obviously fake S.S. Card and supporting documents and puts the illegal on a van for the drive to the distribution center. The illegal, works for minimum wage and has SS, Medicaid, unemployment and withholding held from his paycheck. Who wins and who loses? Let's take a look.

Winner: Large companies that pay a dollar or two over minimum wage, have no extra costs such as workers comp and other insurances and don't have the extra costs of an American worker. They also have the deniablity of "not knowing" that the workers were illegal because the staffing agencey took care of that end of the deal.

Loser: The illegal who paid taxes under false S.S. number that can't collect any benefits.

Loser: The New Jersey tax payer who now has to fund schools and health care for the illegals and their family through tax dollars just so big corporations can make a few extra dollars.

See, we get cheap goods from big box retail, cheap grass cutting and house cleaning and construction work, but we pay on the back end through expanded social services for the illegals.

If you stop and think about it every homeowner in Jersey should be hiring illegals every weekend to do all their chores, it's better for you economically than for the person that doesn't and still has to pay.