Work horse or slave?

Question

How do our business treat the Mexican people?

Answer 1

Hopefully you are not asking this question in a racist way because you ask how "business treat the Mexican people." I hope they treat Mexican people just fine and the same way they would treat most other people, meaning Mexican people who are in this country rightfully and legally. However, if you really meant, "How do our businesses treat illegal immigrants?" I think you would not mean just Mexican illegal immigrants, but ALL illegal immigrants. In that case, if that is what you REALLY meant to say, then I would imagine that businesses, as employers of illegal immigrants, probably treat them like the slave labor that they are. They would know that the illegal immigrants have very little recourse against them, so I imagine they often underpay them or cheat them on their wages, expect them to work overtime without overtime pay, not allow them to take proper breaks, etc. These are not things that I endorse employers to do to illegal immigrants that they hire, but I bet a helluva lot of this occurs, just because the employers know they can and that is one of the extra attractions to employers to hire illegal immigrants. They very often take advantage of the situation of these people. This is just another reason why I want illegal immigrants to leave this country - it is NOT a good situation for them as well as for the taxpaying citizens of the USA who subsidize these people with their tax dollars, all at the benefit of the unscrupulous employers.

Answer 2

The good Lord gave us the day of rest because man will work
you to death. Put you in a hole. And work the next man to death.
Even Whites have a slave mentality. "Don't speak up." "You
can't do anything about it anyway." "You'll just get in trouble."
But the Laws are on the books about immature harassment and things. We just need to learn how to use them.
Just don't overreact, and be fair with others. We all got problems.

Answer 3

The same as they treat the Americans who work for them! They arent the least bit thankful for ANYONE who works for them! All they see is greenbacks rollin in! I get a chuckle out of some Americans too! They are buffaloed into thinking this is good for the American economy! B.S. ! One thing our government could do to solve this problem? Make it a law that anyone who has outsourced their mfg and then brought their product back in to the states must provide accurate info on what the profit margin on said product is! If it doesnt fall within a certain category, it doesnt get imported!

Answer 4

Because they're illegal citizens, they usually are worked like dogs with little or no pay. At least work horses get fed, so slaves.

Answer 5

YOUR BUSINESS DEPEND ON MEXICAN PEOPLE AND THEY ARE TREATED LIKE A WORK HORSE AND IN MANY CASES LIKE SLAVES. BUT THEY DO NOT MIND. THEY ARE EARNING AN HONEST LIVING AND NOT DEPENDING ON PUBLIC ASSISTANCE.

Answer 6

Slaves with no other choice but to find work for little money..

Answer 7

Four hundred thousand strong and they keep coming, drawn by the jobs that North Carolina employers eagerly offer illegal immigrants.
Illegal immigrants mow our lawns, paint our homes, watch our children and cook our food for bottom wages. Doing so, they provide consumers with affordable services that people in most other industrialized countries can only dream of.

But as the wave of immigration continues and the benefits grow, the costs of illegal immigration also mount and become more painful. The losers in the United States' immigration-system breakdown are numerous. They include:

* Taxpayers who foot the cost of educating children of illegal immigrants.

* Hospitals that serve thousands of uninsured newcomers. They absorb some of the cost but pass much of it along to their paying customers and taxpayers.

* Legal blue-collar workers, whose wages are depressed by competition from immigrants willing to work for less.

So far, however, the federal government has chosen to look the other way -- and many businesses are glad it has.

Businesses are the biggest beneficiary of illegal immigration and are the reason unauthorized foreigners are here in the first place.

Some employers say they have difficulty verifying immigrants' legal status, others that pressing labor demands force them to flout the law.

Few, however, express remorse.

"Let's say they got the National Guard to start pulling everybody over and sending every illegal person they find back home. Then where is your work force going to come from?" asked Paul, owner of a small landscaping and tree-cutting business in Raleigh.

Paul, who has employed two illegal immigrants from Mexico for more than seven years, agreed to speak provided he and his business were not fully identified.

"If we don't want them here, why doesn't the government send them back?" he said. "The government lets them cross the border, so why should we worry about it?"

In North Carolina, as in much of the South, any account of illegal immigration is essentially a story about Hispanics. Today, it's estimated that more than 600,000 Hispanics are in the state, roughly half of them without papers.

Of the estimated 395,000 illegal immigrants who made their home in North Carolina in 2004, 70 percent were Mexican, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, a research group in Washington. Taking into account thousands who arrived from Central America and other Latin American countries, the Hispanic portion of the state's illegal immigrant population is probably at least 80 percent. That would put the number of illegal Hispanic residents in the state about 316,000.

Last month, researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill published a study on the economic impact of North Carolina's Hispanic influx. Among their findings:

* Hispanics, legal and illegal, cost state taxpayers $817 million in 2004, with education and health care being the biggest expenses. Meanwhile, Hispanics generated $756 million in tax revenue. According to the report, that averages out to a cost to the state budget of $102 per Hispanic resident.

* More broadly, Hispanic residents contributed about $9 billion to the state economy through purchases and taxes. Their spending has led to creation of 89,600 jobs.

* Because many Latinos work for below-market wages, they also depress North Carolina private-sector payrolls by $1.9 billion annually, the researchers found. In many cases, those lower costs are passed on to consumers as lower prices.

The study was released by UNC's Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise and was underwritten by the N.C. Bankers Association.

North Carolina businesses are tripping over one another to offer products and services to this growing Hispanic consumer group.

A few years ago, it was rare to see an American-owned company display a "Se habla espanol" sign. Today, many business owners say they can't manage without Spanish-speaking staffers.

Carol Priest, owner of Carolina Motorcars in the Franklin County town of Youngsville, has four.

"We probably sell 50 percent of our vehicles to Hispanics," she said. "It's fantastic."

Answer 8

Hopefully like a regular employer.

Answer 9

Taken advantage of low pay if they're illegal.

Answer 10

like illegal border jumpers and cheap labor