If we were to take all the jobs that the illegals hold, who here would take their place and work for that pay?

Answer 1

Nobody. Look around in your neighborhood and ask anyone if they would take the job. NO, because they have too much pride, but they can't pay the rent, and holding out for that managerial position. And they are probably 22 years old. Also, the pay is pretty good for illegals. When I was hiring them, I would rather pay them $12/hour, when I wouldn't pay white/black/or basically American born pieces of lazy trash more than $7.50. Why, you say? Because 1 Mexican is worth 3 of the others, and will show up the following day that he got paid! THAT'S WHY!

Answer 2

I personally wouldnt' take their job. I have gone to college and earned and education. Thus, allowing me to make a decent salary. Unfortunatly many Americans have not been to college, nor have any job training. So if an illegal, who typically has no skills and cant even speak English. Can do a job, then maybe some American's need to tuck their tails and try a new job. What seperates Americans from the Illegals is were think were too good to do this or that, where the Illegals see a pot of good at the end of the rainbow.

A few months ago the ICE busted a chicken processing factory in GA, They deported over half the workers. They were on the verge on going broke and started to advertise for jobs. Americans left WalMart jobs, made a buck more an hour and did an Illegals job! Go figure!

Answer 3

This is a "which came first, the chicken or the egg" question. Many, MANY of these jobs where people are saying, "Who besides illegals would do that work for that kind of pay" used to be the kind of jobs that paid well. When I was a kid I worked in the laborers union with a boat load (well, maybe U-Haul load) of Mexicans. Back in those days we made really good money for the work we were doing. The trouble is, the work is the same, a lot of type of workers are the same, but the wages haven't increase proportionately with the cost of living. So in a sense, yes - these are jobs that Americans won't do. It's not the type of work Americans are opposed to, it's just that we're not going to do it for nothing. So, had it not been for the devaluation of the job, more Americans would want to do them. If it hadn't been for illegals and companies working together to rob the Americans who want to do that work at an honest wage, we wouldn't be talking about this.

Answer 4

This go way, way deeper. Their are many industries mainly the agriculture and construction ones, they lobby so much to keep the status quo going, and why? Is it because we don't have enough workers? Or is it just so they wont have to pay an American a few buck more per hour, plus health insurance and the remaining standard benefits? I believe it has to do much more with the last one. And EVEN if we did have a shortage of workers, why no make it fair and bring them in from other places in the world. I bet that their millions of people in Europe ( referring mainly to eastern Europe), Asia, and even south American countries that could be brought in here LEGALLY. There is some true to what is said about us not wanting to get this low end jobs, but hell I held one while I was going to College. Like me, their are millions of Americans that would get this jobs if they were no seen as jobs for illegal's.

If we saw them as transition jobs rather than jobs for Illegal's, they would be a lot more mainstream.

Answer 5

Americans would. The problem is that businesses can get away with paying sub standard wages for work that US citizens used to do, by hiring ILLEGAL ALIENS. I have done the work that "Americans won't do" like irrigating crops, labor type jobs, etc... I took those jobs and did them to the best of my ability and guess what? I worked my way out of them, just like all the ILLEGAL ALIENS will do when they are granted amnesty. They are called entry level jobs for a reason, you enter the work force learn skills and move on (unless you are an ILLEGAL ALIEN then you just stay a low life welfare feeder, working for cash w/o taxes sending y(our) money to Mexico and having the US taxpayer foot the ill for your social services).

Answer 6

Americans that quit school, Americans that have been released from penal institutions and have little to none work skills, Americans that are presently unemployed due to the influx of illegals. Many Americans are living in poverty and need gainful employment. They are not people with college degrees wanting to work menial jobs but just poor Americans willing to wash dishes, clean houses or baby sit in order to provide for their families. It's always the same story that you people just don't understand. Illegal is Illegal Comprende? Besides it's not fair to all the people who come here legally.
On the other hand "Legal Immigration" gives people a better opportunity to assimilate into society. You just can't have people running over a border into another country.

Answer 7

I'm sorry but these people are working for substandard pay in substandard conditions. You think it ok they come over here and do ****work because no one else will.......If these contractors paid real wages, even around minimum wage, high school boys and honest workers willing to work there way up would take the jobs. I know plenty of workers who would do the JOB, just not take the illegal conditions they work for. Before you make a blanket statement you might want to go out on these jobs and see the conditions they are working in and tell me it's wrong for a legal citizen to demand fair and safe working conditions. Isn't that what OSHA is for.

Answer 8

The same people that did BEFORE the illegals were here. As for the pay??? the pay is substandard. Keep in mind the companies still used to hire people. The question is have the products they make in the USA or the construction jobs gone down in price? NOPE,, they just keep the extra profit. Think about it

Answer 9

Illegal aliens are NOT necessarily coming here to work. 33 percent of our prison population is now comprised of non-citizens. Plus, 36 to 42 percent of illegal aliens are on welfare. So, for a good proportion of these people, the American dream is crime and welfare, not coming here to work.

Illegal aliens are NOT doing work Americans won't do. What jobs won't Americans do? In most states, Americans still clean their own houses, do their own landscaping, clean hotel rooms, work in restaurants and fast food places, paint houses, DO CONSTRUCTION WORK, work in airports, etc. - just like we have the past 200 years before "our" government allowed these people to invade our country. There are 18 million Americans who cannot find a job, so illegal aliens who are coming here to work do so at peril to American workers.

Illegal aliens absolutely do not contribute more than they cost. Certainly the millions in prison and on welfare aren't contributing a dime to our economy, and the ones who are working often are paid in cash with no deductions for taxes at all. The ones who use fraudulent social security numbers and qualify to pay taxes and social security have so many deductions for dependents that they pay little if any taxes. We have seen them pay less than $100 in taxes and get back $4,000 refunds (thanks to earned income tax credits and multiple dependents).Some bargain, eh?

. The economy does NOT depend on illegal aliens. Sure, greedy CEOs (making $50 to $150 MILLION a year) and business owners depend on illegal aliens, the only thing illegal aliens are contributing to is the collapse of our economy and making the rich richer.

Without illegal aliens, the price of agricultural products and other goods and services will NOT soar. The definitive study on this subject is the University of Iowa's "How Much Is That Tomato?" The study concludes that 'since labor is such a small component of the end-price of agricultural products (which includes price to the growers, transportation costs, processing /storage costs, grocers' profit, etc.), using minimum wage workers instead of illegal aliens would increase prices of agricultural products by approximately 3 percent in the summer and 4 percent in the winter ... hardly the making of $10 heads of lettuce, $25 hamburgers, $1,000 per night Days Inn hotel rooms like the pro-illegal alien lobby claims.

Answer 10

When they deported them from the place I work the jobs were filled right away with older people who had been waiting to be hired and some young people.The illegals were paid the same as everyone else.