In the final presidential debate, Bush appeared to be telling Mexicans, *If you're worth your salt, if you want to put food on the table for your families, you are going to come here and work for $5.15/hour instead of 50 cents.*
Then he advocated temporary worker cards for foreign workers.
Isn't this just an invitation for a mass migration from Mexico to the U.S.?
2006-07-26 08:50:04 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
We have had mass migration from Mexico since long before President Bush took office. He is trying to make some sense out of it, and is the first president of this country to face up to the situation. The Mexican people are our friends, not our enemies.
2006-07-26 09:00:03 · answer #1 · answered by senior citizen 5 · 7⤊ 2⤋
What most people don't realize is that it has become increasingly hard to hire workers in service jobs who are normal. You can imagine no one grows up wanting to be a mover or a roofer or some other unskilled labor job. People who take these jobs gravitate toward them. I am a business owner of a service company and I can tell you after doing drug testing and criminal background checks on prospective employees you are left with applicants who suffer either a learning disability, have very low intelligence, are not responsible enough to have a driver's license, are alcoholics, can't show up for work on time, never plan ahead, don't have clean clothes to wear, or money for lunch, have six or seven kids by six or seven women and the state is chasing them for support, and on and on and on.
I hoped that the government would allow Mexican workers into the country so as a reliable labor force would be available for the jobs Americans no longer strive for.
2006-07-26 09:39:09 · answer #2 · answered by Overt Operative 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why is America better off with immigrant labor? I'm not trying to be mean, but *most* of the immigrants coming here from Central America, especially the illegal ones, are unskilled.
To talk about how much we need them is to say "what America really needs is tons more unskilled high school dropouts."
I'm sorry, but Bush is SO wrong about NAFTA and immigrant labor.
2006-07-26 08:58:00 · answer #3 · answered by cirque de lune 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The US imports its natural resouces from Canada and otehr countries and its cheap workforce from MExico. America is better off with them.
2006-07-26 08:54:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was for votes and to protect the illegal workers employers who are mostly Neocons. He was talking to his base.
2006-07-26 08:55:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bush has invited illegal immigrants,, he has harbored them,, 30,000 or more are fighting in Iraq, and he will give them amnesty if they make it back or pay their families $$$$$$$$
2006-07-26 08:54:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Bush is a globalist.
2006-07-26 08:54:36 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
he needs workers for his ranch in TX
2006-07-26 08:53:20 · answer #8 · answered by Laura B 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
INVITATION FOR LEGALS ONLY
2006-07-26 08:57:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋