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Originally posted by Daedalus
reply to post by Logarock
Right, and Chinese sweatshops are a problem, and American companies USING them are an even bigger problem, and outsourcing is an even bigger problem than that...
what we're talking about though is illegal immigration, and it's negative effects on the economy, the people of these united states, and the jobs that are still here...
Originally posted by AuntC
I agree with some of the views here however many illegals work in fields. I saw for the past 3 years right here in NC many farmers having to close down farms because no one would pick the crops. In fact ABC news showed on the world news a big wonderful farm in Georgia that was closing last year. Blue berries and grapes both rotting in the fields because no citizen of the US would pick what they had in the hot sun. That farm had been going for years and never a problem until when the owners were forced to not hire illegals. Well they lost the farm.
A man right here in NC posted an ad in the paper that he would pay $20 an hour for people to pick his crops in the fields. 30 people showed up for the job, when they realized how hard the work was they left. Within 3 hours of starting the job. Only 1 person remained there to keep working and that was for 2 days then they quit. The rest of his crops rotted in the fields. This goes to prove that no matter how much cash people offer the typical American per hour they will not do the work of an illegal.
My husband owns his own roofing business, so he put an ad in the paper. he got 4 big nice black guys that wanted to work, so he took them to the job, They quit without even trying. They said it was to dangerous to risk their lives getting up there on the roof. Why would anyone even try for a roofing job if they were scared to go up on a ladder? Yet my husband does it daily. He is the only person doing it because he can't get anyone else to do it. That is how stupid this is, Believe me US citizens are getting lazy they want office jobs or jobs where they can sit and just push papers around, or sit at the computer all day long. Forget about getting out there getting on a roof in 100 degree weather. Yet my husband does it, and believe me every now and then he does get a legal Mexican to help. And they will work, however most legal Mexicans are the same way they want a job inside, or sitting in a truck in the AC.
The answer to this is right there in the numbers. With so many million illegal invaders taking American jobs, these numbers of people COULD do the program legally, but the transplants that would normally work the fields are now illegally moving up to our positions in the workplace, displacing us! If our wonderful government maintained the old work visa programs instead of a wide open border for votes circus, there would be people to fill that gap, millions of them, and all controlled and set up for a legal citizenship, with a repeating cycle, Imagine if we illegally invaded another country's workforce by 15 million, they would not sit still and just say that this is just fair, We just sit by and let them take it , so they gladly do.
Originally posted by AuntC
I agree with some of the views here however many illegals work in fields. I saw for the past 3 years right here in NC many farmers having to close down farms because no one would pick the crops. In fact ABC news showed on the world news a big wonderful farm in Georgia that was closing last year. Blue berries and grapes both rotting in the fields because no citizen of the US would pick what they had in the hot sun. That farm had been going for years and never a problem until when the owners were forced to not hire illegals. Well they lost the farm.
A man right here in NC posted an ad in the paper that he would pay $20 an hour for people to pick his crops in the fields. 30 people showed up for the job, when they realized how hard the work was they left. Within 3 hours of starting the job. Only 1 person remained there to keep working and that was for 2 days then they quit. The rest of his crops rotted in the fields. This goes to prove that no matter how much cash people offer the typical American per hour they will not do the work of an illegal.
My husband owns his own roofing business, so he put an ad in the paper. he got 4 big nice black guys that wanted to work, so he took them to the job, They quit without even trying. They said it was to dangerous to risk their lives getting up there on the roof. Why would anyone even try for a roofing job if they were scared to go up on a ladder? Yet my husband does it daily. He is the only person doing it because he can't get anyone else to do it. That is how stupid this is, Believe me US citizens are getting lazy they want office jobs or jobs where they can sit and just push papers around, or sit at the computer all day long. Forget about getting out there getting on a roof in 100 degree weather. Yet my husband does it, and believe me every now and then he does get a legal Mexican to help. And they will work, however most legal Mexicans are the same way they want a job inside, or sitting in a truck in the AC.