Well, come to think of it, I'm not okay with punishing corporations either. I don't think any investor would wanna lose money because of some of the things the US government may impose on corporations that break laws, knowingly or unknowingly. If we're gonna punish them for hiring illegal immigrants, let's ensure that investors are not hurt. Of course coporations are privy to the fact that they hire illegal immigrants. They're not willing to do anything about it. But as an investor, I don't wanna see any reduction in profit/earnins per share. Hell, people keep whining and bitching about how Wal-Mart sucks and yadda yadda yadda, but Wal-Mart has a whopping 1.8 million employees. Boycotting Wal-Mart for treating their employees like crap(whether true or untrue) may at the end of the day mean loss of jobs for some of these employees. Look what's happening to Ford. They openly supported gay marriage and some conservatives decided to boycott Ford( but we all know that Ford sucks, that's why they're crapping recently, but some of these boycotts do affect the companies). They're also having to deal with health insurance problems. So I think we need to think twice before meting out vengeance/ punishing corporations for the supposed injustice they are involved in. Tin foil hat theorists tend to suggest that corporations have this grand scheme to suppress the little guys. But let's think for a second. However, things are just getting ridiculous, and there will definitely be a backlash.Was watching NBC just a few hours ago(one of those local channels) and they were saying that a whopping 60% who contacted the channel thought that yesterday's "a day without an immigrant rally" will cause a huge backlash. Similar sentiments were echoed by some of the callers to this one morning radio show I listen to in the morning. Okay, this may sound a bit caustic, and I bet some of you are gonna crucify me for what I am about to say, but here's what I have been thinking. This may sound like a flip-flop from what I said earlier, but just hear what I have to say. It seems to me that America relies on people who work for less than minimum wage. For example, yesterday's rally all but shut down meat-packing industries. But here's the vicious cycle: if we legalize these people, will we not have to pay them at least minimum wage? So what exactly does that mean? We will need to import more illegal immigrants to fill up this vacuum and this process keeps on repeating. Not good for America because we're basically importing Mexico's poverty. So I think we need to maintain the status quo by not letting these illegal immigrants and their posterity have any chance in becoming American citizens. So how can that be achieved? Simple solution. CHANGE THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. The fourteenth amendment guarantees that anybody born on American soil becomes an American citizen. We need to change this amendment and ensure that only Americans and green card holders are guaranteed this right. This will completely fix the problem and will also give us a pool of people who are willing to work for less than minimum wage. However, for this system to work, we need to secure our borders, because otherwise America will keep on getting inundated by immigrants primarily from South of the border. Perhaps the House bill could be tweaked a little bit such that only those who hop the borders from a certain point onwards are classified as felons. This will guarantee that we have a pool of second class "citizens" who will work for cheap. Sorry, but this seems to be the problem. We rely on people who work for less than minimum wage. However, letting them earn citizenship or granting them amnesty will only mean that we will need more second class workers. So who's gonna fill the void? Either that, or we need to reduce minimum wage. So now they are singing the national anthem in Spanish. What's next, are we gonna have a Spanish national flag as well? Maybe tacos and burritos(and nachos) for breakfast, lunch and dinner? Spanish the de facto language of America? Let's think about it for a second.