The media is now on a full court press to make America believe that we will somehow perish as nation if we secure our borders ( Bush will never secure our borders) and enforce our immigration and employment laws. It is the warm-up for the next amnesty attempt. Below is just one of dozens of stories in the media from the last few days on how threatening to the profiteering business community it is to begin to eliminate illegal labor.

If anybody knows Tommy Bagwell or this Hively person, please convey my disgust and contempt to them? If I see either or both in the Georgia Capitol next session, I will happily tell them myself.

Michael Hively, general manager and chief financial officer of Glennville-based Bland Farms, said illegal workers are necessary to the economy.

“I think we’re all being pretty narrow-minded when we sit back and say we don’t need this illegal work force,” he said. “Let’s face it. It’s a part of our culture and economy. So I think as a country we need to figure out how to deal with it instead of passing laws to put more pressure on employers.”

Tommy Bagwell, chief executive of American Proteins, a poultry by-products rendering business in Cumming, said illegal immigrant labor is indispensable in the U.S. economy for business and homeowners.

“Everybody better learn how to run your lawnmower because there ain’t going to be nobody to cut your grass,” he said

More from today’s AJC:

Georgia firms bracing for big headaches: ID crackdown would hurt hospitality, chicken processing and farming, say business owners and economic analysts.Found in The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Written by Marilyn Geewax
Posted on 2007-08-11

Georgia firms bracing for big headaches: ID crackdown would hurt hospitality, chicken processing and farming, say business owners and economic analysts.

By Marilyn Geewax
Cox Washington Bureau

Published on: 08/11/07

Washington —- The Bush administration’s new crackdown on illegal immigration could have a devastating impact on key industries in Georgia, business and legal experts said Friday.

Forcing companies to fire employees whose Social Security numbers and names don’t match government records may disrupt the state’s agricultural, construction and hospitality industries, they predicted.

“I think there will be a fairly significant impact on employers,” said David Whitaker, executive director of the Georgia Employers’ Association, a Macon-based organization that provides members with management and human resource services.

Under current laws, “you could be penalized for doing too much investigation,” because employees could sue for discrimination, he said. “Now the pendulum is going to swing the other way.”

Foreign-born workers make up 11.9 percent of Georgia’s civilian work force, Census Bureau figures show, and two-thirds of those are noncitizens, including many illegal immigrants.

The top occupations for foreign-born workers in Georgia are construction, manufacturing, and professional, scientific, management, administrative and waste management services.

Michael Lucas, who heads the labor and employment practice of the Birmingham office of Burr & Forman LLP, said much of the Southern economy could be hit hard by the new rules.

While the impact will be felt in the Northeast in places such as restaurants and golf courses, he said, the South has entire industries that depend heavily on immigrant labor, such as chicken processing, vegetable growing and hospitality.

“I think you’ll see the major impact on small- to medium-sized businesses,” he said. “This greatly increases the risks,” so they will have to fire illegal workers, he said. Read the rest here…from Jerry Gonzalez’ Websitesite. Thanks Jerry! BTW, again: Do you get paid per illegal alien…or is a salary draw sort of arrangement? We hope the former…