You know, mainstream conservatives have always been friendly to the business community. We believe in low taxes, a light touch on regulation, and we're stalwart champions of the free market.

But, that meant nothing to the "Chamber of Commerce" crowd on the illegal immigration issue. Their attitude has been, "We want as much cheap labor as humanly possible to fatten our pocketbooks and we want everyone else to pick up the tab for it. If they don't like it, tough, we bought these senators with campaign contributions and it's our way or the highway." In other words, for a lot of these companies that knowingly hire illegals, this is about raw, unbridled greed.

Now, I don't begrudge a company making a profit or get all upset because some corporate CEO gets paid more money in the time it takes him to walk from his office to the bathroom and back than I make in a year. That's just capitalism.

But, what I do have a problem with are businesses that want to put an enormous burden on the rest of the country just to inflate their bottom lines. These businesses that are knowingly hiring massive numbers of illegals are criminal enterprises not much different from crack dealers in my book and not only do I want to see them getting fined, I want to see the people running those companies doing hard time in a federal penitentiary.

You know why? Because they're encouraging illegals to come here by giving them jobs. Then these illegals they're bringing here drive up the cost of health care and car insurance by refusing to carry insurance themselves. These illegals are having anchor babies and using those children to get welfare and food stamps that the rest of us pay for. Enormous numbers of American citizens have been raped, robbed, and murdered by illegal aliens who are only here to work for these crooked corporations. Our taxes also pay for keeping illegals in jail, pay for their kids' schooling, and we have to pay a lot of extra money to keep these illegals out of the country and away from these businessmen who are drawing them here.

Free enterprise? Free enterprise is great. But, free enterprise doesn't mean a lot of businessmen get rich by willfully breaking the law, pass the costs on to the rest of us, and then pay off senators with campaign contributions to legalize their victimization of the rest of the country.