The power to tax is the power to destroy.

What these groups need to be doing is not focusing on those crossing illegally, but the ones hiring them to do the daily work that no one else will do for the money they are paying them. Go to the source, right? Most of these illegals on the border are farm workers trying to earn dollars instead of pesos so they can feed their families a little bit better. This is hurting the US economy because the money they are earning (illegally) is being taken out of the country and being spent across the border instead of being fed back into our own economic system. It all comes down to trying to save an extra buck or two, and it is the root of the problem. These are the same people that since they are paying these immigrants to work, they are not paying taxes on these wages, which also takes away from our own economy. They are the criminals here, not the ones looking for work.

If we can stop the people hiring them, then the incentive to come across illegally will be diminished. They wouldn’t have the need to come across if they can’t find work when over here. And yes, my Mexican wife feels the same way about this.

AlanDP over at The Blogonomicon has an interesting look at this here.