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

[Cleita]

53. Or, since the workers are actually needed, we need new laws

to make these workers legal and protected from exploitation under the law. Before it became illegal to hire immigrants, all of them were hired at at least minimum wage. They had taxes and FICA taken out of their checks and they were protected under labor laws. I know because I was the person who did the payroll and who listened to their stories if their supervisors weren't treating them well. The labor board had no interest in their immigration status. Neither did the cops. Both agencies felt it was not their job. We need to go back to something like that but giving them a work permit or guest worker status, something like that. The more we drive them underground the easier it is for unscrupulous employers to exploit them, under pay them and by under paying them drive legitimate workers out of the job market. It's what's happening today.