for actual Americans, increase health care premiums, drive up housing prices, and commit crimes at a significantly disproportionate rate vs. Americans.

This goes the same for "legal" H1B visa holders and similar with whom 90% are here on false pretenses/false documents/fake credentials.

I don't even live in an area that is greatly overrun with them, but my small business and others like mine are greatly affected by them.

There is a fence company in town that now has almost every home builder commercial contract to do fencing on new homes. Everytime I see them out on a jobsite, it's 4-5 Guatemalans or Mexicans and 1 white guy who speaks spanish supervising them.

I have 1 main competitor for my carport company in a 3 state region. It is the same exact setup. I was just underpriced by 12% on a project in my own backyard. I got the metal railings contract but missed out on a $280k carport contract because the competitor uses a team of Mexicans who will sleep in their cars and work 14 hours a day 7 days a week until the project is complete. I play by the rules so I can't compete.

I've told my guys to immediately call ICE on them if they ever see their crews on a jobsite. If they played by the rules I'd get probably double the amount of carport projects and I'd be able to (and would) pay my guys 2x what I pay them now.

Same with my fencing company. That is a 0-10% net margin business year to year. I struggle to give them raises to keep pace with inflation. I want to do more, but simply cannot because I'm fighting people who use illegal labor and they depress the market rate for the service. I'd exit that business altogether if it wouldn't make those employees jobless. If I close up that part of my business, then those guys aren't getting hired by the competitor who uses 90% illegals...they'd just be effed.

Don't use businesses who use illegal labor. You are just fucking over American families...most of which are already disadvantaged and toiling at the bottom rung of the economy.