So if you want Alex to prove to you that there is a large percentage of the day laborers who hang around Home Depot here illegally, then of course he can’t do it. Do you really honestly believe that they are all here legally or are you playing word games to try to avoid the heart of the issue?

That said, so what if the low end of the labor market gets pushed out and ends up costing business more money to employ? That just means that the prices will have to go up to accurately reflect the cost of doing business instead of the corporate games of externalizing as much of the cost of doing business as possible. It’s the same in North Fulton where they cry like babies about MARTA buses driving around in their microcosm, “causing” crime, but without the cheap labor MARTA brings out there, the price of everything would go up and they’d cry about how the government should do something to bring in cheap labor (those “guest workers” El Presidente loves to talk about) so the government would have to cover part of the cost of their tshirts from Hot Topic and Whoppers at the North Point Mall food court instead of them paying the full price.

One way or the other, someone has to pay, it’s a question of if it will be the person consuming the good or service or should the cost be subsidized by everyone. Cheap labor usually isn’t truly cheap, it is just hiding some huge externalized cost that is pushed off on everyone else.

If you’ve ever been around Lindbergh it’s a very easy assumption to make about the number of illegal immigrants.

Emphasis mine.

Hasn’t anyone ever told you what happens when you assume?

If you’ve ever been around Lindbergh it’s a very easy assumption to make about the number of illegal immigrants. Shopping at Home Depot is a nightmare trying to run the gauntlet of immigrants hanging out on the sidewalks, stalking the parking lots, etc. I don’t think it’s any stretch of the imagination to guestimate the percentage of illegals around Lindbergh in the 70-80% range.