The only good thing about Hispanic workers is that they absolutely refuse to pay a union due and they see no benefit to the ongoing existence of a union due and the wholesale absence of any benefit derived from such extortion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/César_Chávez

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Unless the workers were being paid under the table, which it's clear from the article that they were not, they are paying federal income taxes, social security, and the like. Of course, if they are illegal, they aren't filing tax returns to get any of that money back after deductions and adjustments. The social security contributions will never be called in, as it were. Faked SSNs still contribute to the system, on the order of billions of dollars per year by people that will never start drawing social security. And of course, since they live where they work, they pay TN's regressive sales tax. So, they're paying taxes like other estadounidenses.

Of course, illegal workers aren't in a position to organize. But, if you're familiar in the least with the history of farm worker and mining organizing in the west of the US, or with labor history south of the Rio Grande, you'd not make such foolish second sentences.

Memphis- do you like weekends?

Well played. I bought a book of Lewis Hines works last month and wasn't surprised to see pics from Loudon and Lenoir City mills with eight-year-olds working in them.