Most of the Illegals work for contract companies and they can layoff or hire as needed without making the news, but there's a lot more to it than that. There are HUGE savings on payroll taxes and benefits. So much so that a company employing Americans can't compete. Even contract companies that employ Americans can't compete, and that's with no benefits.
In My case, I'm on SS, but had to resume work in order to live decently after returning from abroad. I work as a security guard and we have no benefits except 1.5 pay over 40 hours and 1.5 pay working on the 6 national holidays, nothing for the holidays if you aren't working. Company still has payroll taxes.
Back to the illegals...
Most of them are in the same boat, No sick days, No vacation, No Holiday pay, No Insurance and often no overtime pay. However the savings run deeper for the corporations.
SS and Medicare is currently 7.65% to Employee and the Employer has to match.
FUTA (Federal Unemployment) is 6% of first 7,000 paid each employee. State Unemployment in Tn (Where I live) is .01%-to as high as 10% (1) 2.7% for New Employers on the first 7,000 (Varies each year) paid an employee for 2023, Fla rates (2)
Worker's Compensation averages .93% overall, but varies by state and how hazardous the job is. California at 1.45% is at or near the top for average. Look up your states info here. https://www.thehartford.com/workers-compensation/states
Vacation time varies
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Tax rates range from 0.01% to 2.3% for positive-rated employers and from 5% to 10% for negative-rated employers. Tennessee is the only state to determine experienced employer unemployment tax rates on a semiannual basis. The standard unemployment tax rate for new employers is 2.7% for fiscal year 2023
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The Florida 2023 SUI tax rates are dated December 22, 2022. The minimum rate is 0.10% and the maximum rate is 5.4%, except that employers participating in the short-time compensation program may be subject to a maximum rate of 6.4%. New employers pay 2.7% in 2023.
Vacation-Sick leave Holidays: Insert your numbers here... Minimum at most jobs would be 40 Vacation, 48 Holiday, Sick Pay (0-48)
Corporations are starting to use more white collar workers that are illegals, so think about that before shrugging your shoulders. Also using illegals in the military might be right around the corner, they aren't going to be patriotic in all probability. California setting precedence by using Illegals as police.
Companies and corporations will always place profits ahead of other priorities, and being patriotic ranks last in their priorities. Unfortunately this is the consequence of capitalism.
That being said, behaviors can be modified by means of governmental regulations, and if American companies, and by extension there contractors, are required to employ only Americans and legal immigrants, then it solves most of the problems. There is still a loophole with respect to consultants, but that can be shaped, too.
I work with impact-benefit agreements a lot, and know first hand how well this type of behavioral modification serves to benefit the local communities and businesses, but have also experienced how these IBAs can really affect companies' profitability when they are forced to hire less skilled labors.
Case study: Norway and its policies on offshore oil industry. Norway helped ensuring that its population becomes skilled in running offshore oil operations after oil was first discovered off Norwegian coasts. Two decades later, Norwegians became experts in the offshore oil industry so much so that many of the later offshore oil rigs around the world use Norwegian management and contractors.
In order to make America great again, there needs to be a focus on training future American workforce being the most skilled in all aspects of the economy. The only president who has even tried to do that in the last forty years is DJT.
Multinationals need to go, there's no benefit to the consumer. We have only had an illusion of a free market. Coke and Pepsi have huge chunks of their stocks owned by the same corporations. Blackrock, Citicorp, Vanguard, etc... They also own each other's stock.
A sole Proprietorship or Partnership are better type of companies
Most of the stocks are owned by everyday people, yet a select few people make the decisions. WEF has a list of partners that consists of hundreds of corporations. They have too much power. Some day I might add up the market cap of all these corporations just to see how many trillions they control. Apple and Microsoft 1st and 3rd total 5 trillion in market cap alone and are WEF, Interestingly Number 2 Saudi Aramco is not listed as a WEF member though several other Saudi companies are. Estimated World market cap is 91 Trillion. I'm interested in seeing how much of that is WEF controlled. Click on Partners on this page then all partners. https://www.weforum.org/partners
Every time an item changes hands the price goes up, and these people move everything through as many hands as possible. Parimutuel wagering works like that as well. You aren't betting against the house, and the house gets a cut every time the money passes through the window.