Open Letter to US Chamber of Commerce

As a former member of the USCC, I'd like to offer a suggestion.  Rather than promote and encourage amnesty for illegal aliens in any effort to hire cheap labor, a position that is immensely unpopular outside the D.C. beltway, try offering those low wage under the table jobs to Americans.  I know it's illegal, but it's what many of your members are doing now.  As a real estate broker, over the last nine years I have sold more short sale properties than I can count.  Do you not think that any one of those displaced Americans who have lost their homes would not jump at the chance to acquire gainful employment, even if it's under the table?  Of the fifty million or so Americans who can't find work, I think you'd have a workforce pool far in excess of any pool of illegal aliens (they are not migrants, not undocumented aliens, not guest workers - they are illegal border-crashing aliens).  I'm sure that many unemployed Americans would jump at the chance to earn even $15 an hour.  Why?  Because that's $15 in take home pay, and that money stays in the economy, not sent back to Mexico, as many credible reports indicate is happening now.  That's $120 billion overall, and $23 billion just to Mexico.  Would that employment help American workers?    Americans would be able to pay the rent, put food on the table, keep the power and water connected, and keep the car in gas.  And maybe go out to dinner once a week.  And all of that money stays in the local American economy - not supporting the corruption to the south. So how about it?  Have an English-speaking, drug and disease free, non-criminal workforce for your corporate members by supporting currently unemployed Americans.  Those American workers will gladly do the job better for you.

And for the illegal aliens on your staff that are already here, or those who contemplate coming here, I say this to you:

Si vienes aqui ilegalment, se le enviara a casa a su propio costo.  Gobierno en consecuencia. 

Sincerely,
An American Business