If you are pro illegal, then you are cool with people getting paid slave wages doing back breaking work. To me, this is kinda sick. It is exploiting people. It is robbing people of their human rights. It is not very humanitarian. They are all for people that should do crap jobs and not strive for an education that would really lead to a better life. Jobs Americans wont do, call the uneducated hungry immigrants, they are desperate, they will do our jobs for cheap. Kinda sick to me.
2006-08-07 18:24:36 · 11 answers · asked by de rak 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Exactly! Spot on! Have been saying that for ages .. it's not very nice, is it, to be pro illegal for the reason that they do jobs dirt cheap (those who do that is) ... big business wants cheap labor, we all know that ... but why aid and abet them in their nefarious pursuit? And why under the guise that you are somehow pro these people, while at the same time sitting complacently at your dinner table burping and wondering if Jose has finished your lawn yet? I agree ... it's selfish and sick ... yet another reason to be anti illegal ... there is absolutely no dignity in being an illegal alien ... they'd be far better off going back home, filling in the paperwork, and apply legally ...
2006-08-07 18:31:03 · answer #1 · answered by Sashie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This isn't a question.
It's a statement. I don't disagree with you, but it seems if you want an answer you should package your comments a bit differently.
The issues of illegal and legal immigration are very complex. People are risking their lives to come to the United States to work for what you are calling slave wages. Why?
The reason is they are coming from conditions that are far worse.
I don't have an easy solution. I do think we should start by tightening security at the borders, but considering the length of the Canadian and Mexican borders that is a challenge. We also have the possibilities that illegal immigrants could simply land on our coasts, and that would have to be controlled as well.
Long term, people need better countries to live in.
I don't know how much we can do about that.
2006-08-07 18:40:35 · answer #2 · answered by Warren D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right now, they don't have enough people in California to pick their crops. There's a labor shortage because of the crackdown lately on illegal immigrants.
So, WHERE ARE the hordes of Americans that need jobs? There are jobs in California! I don't see any Americans running out to the fields right now.
Also, I hate the wording "pro illegal." This means you are "pro criminality." That's not right. If anything, you should be saying, "Pro undocumented workers" At any rate, all sides are wrong. Mexicans break the law to work, employers break the law by giving people LESS THAN the minimum wage, and Americans are WRONG to think that they will, all of a sudden, come out and fill agricultural jobs.
That's why we need immigration reform. To make it legal and morally correct for everyone involved. Mexicans are extremely gifted horticulturalists and I wouldn't want this country to be without them! But employers need to respect their talents and pay them a correct wage. And the government needs to give them grants to work here.
BTW, without Mexicans, we'd be paying A LOT more money for food. And Americans would probably bark at that!
2006-08-07 18:35:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but you are not going to get away with it again. If the system we currently have is continued, then the wink and nod thing America is doing could go on, but if you want to change the rules in the middle of the game, and favor the team with all the advantages, it will not work.
Prices will shoot out of sight in your opinion. The lowest classes of America today are not going to work under the conditions and pay that illegals have been doing since the West was populated with millions of people.
So, go ahead and pass your Draconian immigration law and just watch what happens.
2006-08-07 19:01:15 · answer #4 · answered by zclifton2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course they're advocating slave labor. If we didn't have tons of illegals coming here depressing the wages, then we wouldn't have to worry about a low minimum wage for legal citizens and residents. People who are "pro-illegal" only want to destroy this country.
2006-08-08 03:53:27 · answer #5 · answered by devoid_of_love 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I completely agree.
I have always found there are plenty of Americans who need a job and will do those jobs. We have plenty of people here already who need jobs or want a second kind of work down, lots of high school or college kids have always done babysitting, lawn care, farm work etc. Can kids only work at the mall now? Wouldn't a lot of those jobs be good for a lot of kids? I think them saying those things is like saying Americans are too good to do those things and we need "cheap" people to do them. Americans have always done these jobs before. I fix and clean my own house and my other half fixes the house and mows the lawn and we aren't hiring illegals to do it.
Wouldn't it be better to have people coming to this country who wanted a good education and were willing to learn English etc? I think they are putting people down.
2006-08-07 18:51:55 · answer #6 · answered by inzaratha 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. While at first the comparison may seem extreme, you've explained your case well. It is, when it's boiled down, labor for truly dirt cheap prices. Its devaluing to the workers and certainly by no means "fair play."
2006-08-07 18:28:46 · answer #7 · answered by Tapan J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No we are not advocating slave labor, this govt is, along with businesses.....Why don't you point your finger at the real culprits?
2006-08-07 18:34:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I think they're leaches and stupid. They seem to want our own citizens to have trouble getting health care while illegals GET IT FREE.
2006-08-07 18:27:55 · answer #9 · answered by cyanne2ak 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope.Is $10 an hour slave wages?
2006-08-08 05:27:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋