How Small Business Interests Undermine Border Security
Four Actions Entrepreneurs Must Take to Address the Immigration Crisis
The American entrepreneurial spirit has always been measured by our tendency to start and grow businesses. Our companies range from solo-preneurships, mom-and-pop shops, and employer businesses that contribute substantially to regional economies, to global enterprises that employ people around the world. Within all that diversity of size, small businesses are the backbone of America’s economy. To scale up, all businesses find ways to cut costs, increase money on hand, and maximize profit. One of the ways small businesses manage costs and scale is by contributing to the jobs magnet for illegal aliens and/or participating in ongoing exploitation of various work visas for immigrants.
What Comes First, Workers or the Revenue?
Small businesses employ about half of workers in the private (non-government) sector. Without small businesses, unemployment would skyrocket. So, we should hope that Americans continue to grow businesses above the level of owning a job to becoming employer-businesses with a workforce beyond the owner or immediate family.
Most small businesses are short on money and thus short on employees. And others are short on money because they don’t have employees.
