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Undocumented workers can't report if they're not being paid overtime, or if their health and safety laws are being violated, of if they're not…

— Barack Obama

Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law, and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Very few undocumented workers come here to be unemployed.

— Bob Beckel

When illegal labor is used, that almost always depresses wages paid to all workers. The illegal workers can be exploited, and they will usually…

— Kris Kobach

If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology and automation,…

— Jan C. Ting

We don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective...We…

— Michael Chertoff

As Americans, we have the right to decide who lives within our borders, and we can't let unscrupulous employers to undercut honest business owners…

— Hank Johnson

Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the…

— Dana Rohrabacher

Over a period of time, they [undocumented workers] can have a legalized status that allows them to live a life of dignity but not…

— Jeb Bush

Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.

— Murray Rothbard

To the extent that our workers compete with low-paid Mexicans, it is as much through undocumented immigration as trade. This pattern threatens low-paid, low-skill…

— William J. Clinton

Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.

— Peter Schiff