Fire Illegal Workers and Pay the Price - The Role of 7.2 Million Undocumented Workers - Mitt Romney Fired His Landscapers, but What About Your Waiter, Maid and Contractor?

As owner of a seven-acre tree farm and landscaping company, he’s facing the toughest job of his life — finding workers. And if Mendenko challenged the fragile documentation of the workers he’s got, he might have no business at all.

Immigration advocates say he is not alone. If all small-business owners did the same, whole industries — landscaping, restaurants and construction — might collapse.

For Mendenko, it’s hard to compete against big-box retailers, and, it’s even harder to find labor, especially as the debate over the role of immigrants has escalated in the presidential nomination campaign. “*

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