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10.31.2003
AlterNet: Wal-Mart Gets Greedy: "The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) caught Wal-Mart red-handed as it contracted to have the overnight cleaning of its stores done by undocumented workers. Federal officials have told the Associated Press that company executives knew what the contractors were up to. " The people punished in this situation are the workers... again. Is it wrong to hire undocumented workers? That's a hard question to answer. On one hand if you make it illegal to hire them then they have no way of making a living. The arguements for that say it would keep people from crossing the borders to find work. But the corporations like Wal-Mart love them because their illegal status puts them at a disadvantage negotiating for wages. So its a silly game we play where our bosses keep hire illegals to put pressure on American workers looking for work. Its a great way of keeping wages down. Just hire a few guys desperate for work and send a few guys packing. It'll keep the rest of your crew working happily with little or no complaints. If you allow undocumented workers to have jobs then you have created an incentive for people to cross borders looking for work. How can you say its wrong for someone to cross the border then once their here let them work? The current system will remain in place because we have no heart to punish employers like Wal-Mart when they're caught breaking the law. Because we all know who gets hurt when you punish the corporation? The workers who get laid off or fired. Borders are the skeleton in the free trade closet. As long as you have barriers to the free flow of labor then you will always have distortions in the market. You cannot allow free flow of capital while limiting labor. If you do you end up with a situation like we have now, where the factories set up on shop on one side of that border where the labor is cheap and the workers try to move across the border to where the pay is good. Wal-Mart, which does not have the benefit of setting up shop across borders tries to take advantage of the low wage market brought about by border inequities and immigration laws. | |
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