jobs people wont do?

Question

why do people say "They do jobs americans wont do)?
maybe we are not all rich enough to say we are to good to work construction and even yes clean toilets.
And most importantly it is RACIST to basicaly say that mexicans are like the "help".

Answer 1

The truth is that illegals are taking good jobs, or what used to be good paying jobs, from Americans. Ask anyone who used to work in the construction, hotel or restaurant industries and they’ll tell you quite a different story than what is being portrayed. Are there some jobs that Americans in general are not as willing to do? Yes. Do these require twelve to eighteen million illegal immigrants, and millions of more legal immigrants, to fill? Of course not.

One could even make the argument that there is no such thing as low income jobs filled by illegal immigrants. They are really subsidized income jobs with the US taxpayer picking up the tab. The scope of the societal costs from such a poorly paid and sometimes exploited workforce is overwhelming. You, the taxpayer, pay tens of billions for entitlements to these tens of millions and their families. This includes food stamps, public housing, Medicaid, Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, Earned Income Tax Credit, public schooling, the WIC program, food stamps, and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families.

Removing illegal immigrants from the work force would only raise wages, relieve an overwhelming economic burden on the welfare, correctional, medical and educational systems, lower the unemployment rate, and force a few people to clean their own pools or mow their own grass until they could find an enterprising teenager to do it for them. To act as if our national economy could not survive without an additional three million ‘undocumented workers’ a year is simply ridiculous and a red herring argument at best. For those who make the arguments that open borders are ‘needed’ the question is really on their shoulders as to how many millions of illegal immigrants do they think we really need. I’ve yet to receive a straight answer to that question.
"Of 473 job categories studied by the Center for Immigration Studies for the year 2004, only four – plasters and stucco masons, dressmakers and sewers, agricultural graders and sorters, and miscellaneous personal appearance workers – had a majority of immigrant workers, and only 23 out of 473 job categories (less than 5 percent) had 33 percent or more. More to the point, every single kind of work done by illegal aliens in this country is also performed by Americans.

One of the reasons some jobs are increasingly being taken over by illegals is because they will accept jobs for lower pay. When a construction worker loses a $15 an hour job to an illegal worker who will do it for $8.50, that is not an example of a poor work ethic by Americans."

Answer 2

Americans are more than happy to clean toilets...for $25 an hour. The downside of a good economy is that everyone is employable...and there is an abundance of "good" jobs. If I had the choice of cleaning toilets for $5.25 or doing a factory job for $12.00, well. (it's pretty easy to figure out which one I would pick). If the job market goes sour, then people would settle for lesser jobs. The problem there is that the Mexicans already would have the cheap, labor intensive, dangerous, low paying, degrading jobs. So, we as Americans want the good jobs for ourselves AND the bad jobs to fall back on if we were to want to.

Answer 3

Illegal immigrants don't take jobs that Americans don't want. They take jobs that can't be exported to CHina. Construction, Farm albor and Janitorial are the top 3 jobs illegal aliens take. Yes California's unemployment is low. Its at 5% not 4% now. the 4% is old data. If you look at the other economic data, you will find American salaries has stalled. BBC wrote an article last year stating that China's factories and illegal immigrants are responsible for this. Employers would dangle outsourcing jobs and hiring more illegal immigrants to pressure Americans to keep their salary low.

Answer 4

It's not racist. It's a fact. Mexicans are unskilled laborers for the most part. Skilled jobs, like electricians and plumbers etc. requiring local/state licensing, are still being done by legal Americans.

Answer 5

I always thought it was quite derogatory to suggest that another race will do what we are too good to do. It's not about jobs that Americans won't do, it's about employers who won't pay enough of a wage to get American workers. This guest worker program is nothing more than a gift to big business from our federal government. Actually not so much a gift as a return on investment.

Answer 6

Wealthy farmers and landowners
have always considered slavery as a birthright.
Since the Civil War, it has been denied to them,

But they got it back
with the WTO GATS-FTAA-NAFTA-CAFTA-agreements.


And therein lies the strategy
for addressing the question of illegal aliens,
the so-called ‘guest worker’ programs,
the sale of American citizenship for profit
and the destruction of the lives of American citizens
who are being crushed financially, emotionally and spiritually
by the WTO trade agreements



We have to start calling it what it is -
Slave Trade
and we need to dig out our blue uniforms
and fight the war against the Slavers once again.


---"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
--Edmund Burke

Answer 7

It's political brainwashing by the people who are profiting from the cheap, illegal labor. Americans are being held up as fools every time this statement is made. Those you've voted into office think you are ignorant and that they know what you will or will not do to save and/or improve your country.

Answer 8

1. To stick the tongue so that stamps will wet before sticking on the letter,
2. Smell armpits for test of deodorants, and
3. Look for the status of cockroahces during tests of insecticides.
Some Americans are good in these jobs.

Answer 9

"jobs americans won't do" is just a fending off phrase for pro illegal immigration advocates. the truth is greedy business owners hire these illegals because they are willing to do the job for dirt cheap. it isn't that americans are more greedy, but the cost of living for the average american is five times that of the average mexican.

these jobs americans supposedly won't do wouldn't pay enough for an american to earn a living.

Answer 10

Who does the jobs Mexicans won't do?

There are no jobs and American wouldn't do, go to the midwest where their not as populus and see for yourself.

We do toilets...we do windows!!