Should illegal immigrants ever be separated from their US citizen children?

[renie408]

48. Ok, I am glad you figured out the smiley thing...

but you don't have to use it on every single one of your posts. Animated smilies are kind of distracting.

And my husband works in construction in the southeast. We live in a community that has seen a good bit of immigration. I don't see the downside. My husband has had jobs where the homeowner specifically requested American workers and we couldn't FIND any to do the work. You try to find a crew of American hangers to hang a 300 board house in a day, do a good job, arrive early and work late and do it for $5 a board...which is what the going rate for hanging sheetrock is in our area. Cause if you can do that, I would really REALLY like their number for the odd job that doesn't want us to use Hispanics.

Honey, in the summer of '08 we were spraying the ceilings on ten house A DAY, and doing the drywall contract on another 5-6 per month. We ran three crews and were making bank. These days my husband works by himself out of a mini-van and does drywall repairs and small remodels. Your partner's work isn't being hurt by immigrants, it is being hurt by the economy and a housing market that is glutted with empty houses. We scratch and scramble and fight for every job. Half the time that my husband goes to give an estimate, he winds up getting told that their cousin/brother in law/uncle is going to do the work for them. We are charging $25 a board now, with us supplying materials on new construction. We have to sub out the hanging. Four years ago we were charging $40 and had to turn down work. These are just tough times.