there are corporations here that exploit illegal imigrants but you can not point to one persons wrong doing and use it as an excuse for other bad behaviour.yes punishments need to be enforced against companies that hire illegal workers.The situation in the US is that in some sectors of the economy the labor unions have inflated wagegs so high that they have priced themselves out of jobs. the only way these corporations can survive is to hire cheap labor either here or abroad.Still wrong but that the reason.In other nations where labor is cheap the average "sweat shop" actualy pays more than twice the average local wage so when you shut down these factories your hurting the local economies drasticaly and increasing the need for those workers to "migrate".Taxes in the US are another reason,untill that is addressed corporations will migrate to where it's cheaper to do buisness.None of this is great but there are reasons for these actions.If it is wrong for a corporation to move where they can prosper legaly than it is far worse for a worker to migrate to a place illegaly.The Illegal and the company hiring should BOTH be punished and thats that.No one side is any eviler than the other.demonising buissness and not the worker is just plain wrong.It shouldn't matter is some "peasent" has problems filling out the paperwork thats their issue.The imigration should be set up so that we are allowing the best and brightest posible imigrants in to have an instant impact on our country not just allowing everyother nations problems here to get hand outs.I think that the educated or the ones with skills need to be allowed in first then the uneducated laborers as NEEDED.The US is not the world welfare program.If things are so bad in Mexico that people are fleeing and risking life to leave then instead of critisizing the US for protecting what we have built the world community should be harping at mexico to fix the problems that are causeing them to leave.The United States does more to cloth the poor,help the sick,liberate the oppressed than any other yet we are always the worlds whipping boy.I think that we should cut off aid for one day and see how much the world clammers for our blood sweat and treasure.If we are not allowed to do what is best for our nation then maybe we should stop sacrificing so much for what is best for millions apon millions of the rest of the world.