Be Honest! Very curious!?

Question

Lets say the U.S government kicks all the illegal immigrents out the U.S,who is going to pick your fruit,clean your houses,cut your lawns,do your bed in your hotel room? Americans dont want those jobs,and if u guys do,do them,u guys are gonna want more then what the mexican people get paid,are u guys ready to pay outreageous prices for fruit,since u guys aint gonna want to get paid the same as the mexican people,and for that reason the prices must go up!! Its not gonna happen,,just very curious,and please no dumb answers! Thank u!!

Answer 1

Most of the fruit in my house didn't come from the U.S anyway, I clean my own house, my husband mows my lawn, as for the hotel maids, it will leave plenty of jobs for the immigrants who legally entered the country. Why is it so hard to believe we don't need you, no one is irreplaceable, even top earning CEO's are replaceable, what does that say for a poor, uneducated person like you?

Answer 2

This is very simple. These jobs need to be done. At this time, illegals do some of them and are paid a small amount. But that doesn't mean that people purchasing those goods and services are paying less, it means that the people who OWN those businesses have a bigger profit.

If I am a business owner and all the illegals leave, I may need to pay someone $11/hour instead of $6/hour which will cut into my profit. But the jobs will get done and since prices must remain competitive, the prices are unlikely to go up much.

No problem. Ya'll can go home now.

Answer 3

Blah, blah, blah! I've heard this pathetic tripe on here so many times and it is all such a bunch of hogwash! I live in Canada and we don't have the illegal immigrant workers that you have in the USA and if your reasoning is correct, how come our prices are very nearly the same as those of the US? If your reasoning were correct, because we in Canada don't have illegal immigrant workers, we should be paying far, far more than people in the US for goods and services, but we don't. Our prices are very similar, despite the small difference in our dollar.

Stop spouting these lies on here! You say to be honest - well, start with YOURSELF!

Answer 4

For one thing, the operative word here is "ILLEGAL" .. if the individual is an illegal immigrant, draining our economy, he or she has no business working or living in the United States. As an illegal immigrant, they do not pay taxes, because they work under the table; they do not pay in to our healthcare system, because they are in this country >>>illegally<<< and are not entitled. If you average out the increase in retail for produce, services and goods cultivated by the illegal immigrants, the monies that American's pay out in taxes and other government revenues such as health care, schooling and property, city and state taxes, far more exceed the amount of the increase for a stinkin' tomato!!! The reason the pay rate is so low for the jobs you so described, is because employers are getting away with hiring the illegals at a less than fair wage amount. They're not going to gripe about being less than minimum wage because they're not suppose to be here in the first place!!!!!! So yes, I'm willing to pay MORE for a stinkin' tomato .. if it means getting the illegals out of our country, and prevent them from draining our economy and providing American's with FAIR paying jobs so they >>>will<<< work those jobs.

Answer 5

blah,blah blah,: Prior to 1965 when the disastrous Immigration Bill was passed, there was very little immigration. In fact, between 1925 and 1965, there was even a period of net emigration out of the United States. During this time, our grass was getting cut, our meat was being packed, our children were being watched and our houses were being cleaned. The idea that somehow we suddenly can't run a country without an unlimited supply of foreigners is absurd.

Those in favor of foreign labor are corporations who are addicted to cheap labor. They are the ones who are benefiting. But their benefit comes at the American tax payer's expense when you consider that the American tax payer is virtually subsidizing the labor costs of the greedy corporations by supplying the illegal foreign workers and their families with welfare, free education, free medical, WICs, housing assistance, etc. -- something the corporations won't do.

Americans won't allow themselves to be exploited like illegals do, but they WILL do the work that illegals do for fair compensation and benefits. If Americans did the work that illegals do at higher pay, would that benefit the consumer? You bet it would in the long run. But many Americans who do not care about America's future are consumers who favor the idea of exploiting illegal workers because it keeps commodity and service prices down in the short term.

Answer 6

American citizens and legal immigrants work at ALL of these jobs that you mentioned. There are many millions of farm workers, housekeepers, etc. I have done them too!!! And if no illegal aliens are employed in jobs such as these working under the table, paying no taxes or with stolen IDs, the employers will be FORCED to pay a decent wage and offer benefits to those here legally. You neglected to mention that illegal aliens also work in MANY more desirable fields of employment, thus lowering the wages of legal citizens or taking their jobs completely.

Answer 7

I don't want illegals "kicked out" as much as I want employers who knowingly hire illegals held accountable for their actions. The only reason illegals are knowingly hired is so that an employer can exploit them by making them work for less than minimum wage, work for long hours without overtime, or work in dangerous conditions. NO ONE should have to do these things in the USA.

I am willing to pay higher prices so that people can work safely for a living wage, especially legal immigrants.

And btw, I am a native born, non-Hispanic who has picked fruit professionally. Not all maids, farm hands, etc, are Hispanics, and definately not all are illegal.

Answer 8

well i am white and against illegal immigration i clean motel rooms for a living , i mow my own grass all one half acre, and we have only two illegals working there in the last year and the prices of fruit will still go up once they are legal they will ask for more come on think about it and who cares i will pay more the costs of keeping them here is very high and people can come legal either way their free ride is over !

Answer 9

where i live in the south i and other whites and blacks do the jobs you are saying americans wont do. i happen to clean rooms for a living and grow my own garden in the summer. i know how it is to work those jobs you are talking about. i have also worked the fields with snakes slithering around. americans will continue to do those jobs. by the way i get descriminated agents for having a niece who is half black and being origionaly from the north. and i'm white and it is white people who is picking. so can i yell racism?

Answer 10

After a wave of raids by federal immigration agents in Stillmore, Ga., on Labor Day weekend, a local chicken processing company called Crider Inc. lost 75 percent of its mostly Hispanic 900-member work force. The crackdown threatened to cripple the economic anchor of this fading rural town.


But for local African-Americans, the dramatic appearance of federal agents presented an unexpected opportunity. Crider suddenly raised pay at the plant. An advertisement in the weekly Forest-Blade newspaper blared "Increased Wages" at Crider, starting at $7 to $9 an hour -- more than a dollar above what the company had paid many immigrant workers. The company began offering free transportation from nearby towns and free rooms in a company-owned dormitory near the plant. For the first time in years, local officials say, Crider aggressively sought workers from the area's state-funded employment office -- a key avenue for low-skilled workers to find jobs. Of 400 candidates sent to Crider -- most of them black -- the plant hired about 200. (Full Story)

So, what happened there? This local Stillmore chicken processing plant had been perking right along for years paying illegals immigrants wages so low it made more sense for American workers right there in town to remain unemployed. But once those those illegals were gone, forcing the company to offer a reasonable wage, local (American) workers stampeded to get a job there. The job hadn't changed. It was the same, dirty, smelly, messy chicken gut-flinging work as before -- the kind of work the company claimed "Americans won't do."

All that changed at the Crider plant were the wages on offer.

And that's what it's all about, boys and girls. The entire GOP "comprehensive immigration reform" scam is about wages -- specifically keeping U.S. wages low and company profit margins high.Who got jobs once the illegals were herded out of Crider's factory?
Unemployed local African-Americans, mostly.


And where had all those worker been?
Cooling their heels at the Stillmore unemployment office waiting for a job that paid something approximating a livable wage.


And what happened when such jobs were offered?
They stormed the Crider plant to claim one of those jobs the company had claimed "Americans won't do."
And that's where American GOP policy dovetails nicely the needs of Mexicans. No, not the poor Mexicans risking their lives sneaking across the border. The GOP's real friends in Mexico are the handful of oligarch families and monopoly enterprises that have succeeded in rounding up the lion's share of Mexico's wealth for themselves. The porous U.S.-Mexican border serves as a safety valve for those Mexican oligarchs, providing Mexico's poor an alternative to rebellion. Those oligarchs understand all to well that the day that border is sealed is the first day of the revolution that will end their sweet deal.