I am not pro-illegals, but just wondering If 12 M illegals leave, are US citizens ready to do menial jobs?

Question

With lot of rhetorics from anti-immigrants, are American citizens ready to fill in the menial jobs that most of this illegals do without complain? this people works hard for 7days a week and underpaid, no holidays etc..

Answer 1

When 12+ million illegal immigrants leave, their former employers will be forced to pay LEGAL American citizens a livable wage to do those same jobs and YES there will be Americans to fill those jobs. They should have been getting a decent wage all along and WOULD have if ILLEGAL immigrants had NOT been allowed to enter our country and take those jobs for such low wages. Our citizens should NOT have to work for third world wages against third world people.

Those illegal immigrants make low wages and those wages are SUPPLEMENTED with free education, free medical care, low cost rent partly paid by OUR taxes, food stamps..another TAX PAID benefit they receive and many other TAX paid benefits.. Those taxes are paid by CITIZENS. Give the jobs to Citizens of our country, pay them a decent wage so they won't be sucking billions OUT of our economy... and further more than that, those illegals SEND much of their money BACK to their homeland. WE are supportimg the illegal immigrant AND his family back home through our taxes. Simple answer...YES...there ARE citizens in the USA who WILL do those jobs.

Answer 2

We already have hard working underpaid US citizens who do menial labor. Have you ever walked into a Wal-mart and seen the senior citizens who have to still work hard because the system passed them by and SS is not enough to live on? We should be helping our own citizens and not worry about people who don't belong in out country.

Answer 3

That's a good question.
However, one has to wonder who did all of these entry level jobs before there were 12 million illegals. I did some pretty menial jobs while in school - it didn't hurt me a bit - might have even taught me a thing or two about responsibility and work ethics. Unfortunately, these jobs are no longer available.
As far as your question, I believe for the most part that if the illegals were not here, it would be a definite reality check for the greedy and unscrupulous employers who exploit them. And, no, I don't believe the people who hire them would be willing to do the same work, especially considering the wages and lack of benefits.

Answer 4

the democraticapitalist economic system does not want this to happen or else there goes mandatory unemployment, the american worker will actually be able to earn a living wage,..all this worth and value b/s from the leading economists,..talk about being able to start a union so we the people can be paid living wages,..why not everyone in these united states withdraw all their cash from their accounts and call off work the same day and then we will see what kind of power the big corporations have,..let the ceo build, assemble, pack, load, ship/transport, track, inventory, unload, shelve/display and answer the destination's telephone call, then repeat the process again,..if the people understand that we are the backbone of the country the big corp will get the message,..now being we are a debtor people we must get out of debt and that, in the current economic system will be a challenge,..we must unifiy to make this happen,..ceo going to till the fields, bundle the crop, fix the tractor,..

i e a e,..
avatar of the unification,..

Answer 5

Mexicans are not the only ones doing menial jobs. If they pay a living wage anyone would do a job. Most of the jobs beside farm work Americans have always did, house cleaning, roofing, house building, Landscaping it wasn't invented with the Mexican people Americans have and still do these jobs. Look around you, whites, blacks all wait on tables. McDonald's has senior citizens and young teenagers working of all colors. Believe me Mexicans are not the only one doing low wage jobs. The difference we don't want to keep doing low wage we want better pay.

Answer 6

What would be the loss? The illegals do not pay taxes but use government assistance programs paid for by naturalized and native-born Americans.
So if they left:
The salaries of the "menial" jobs would increase and would be attractive to people less-inclined to do them.
or companies that employ illegals and the fleece the tax payer would go away. I just don't see the downside to kicking illegals out.

Answer 7

Decent wages for the job being done. Oh he/she again with the farms. Do you work on a farm yourself. How is the less than 10% of farm hands being illegal helping. It is not. These farmers would expect to pay the same as the other 90% of the farmers do!

Answer 8

Who cares if they are "ready" to do menial work. Once all the illegals leave, we'll have something for the welfare leeches to do. I say we give them jobs to earn government services anyway. Millions of illegals leaving would open that opportunity up wide.

Answer 9

Illegals threaten EVERYBODY's jobs because they skip apprenticeship programs and work as skilled sooner. They often assume other latinos identities to get better jobs. At the same time they manage to send 2 billion$ back to Mexico which means they get a lot of FREE things off American taxpayers they should NOT be entitled to since Americans get NO free when in Mexico for one thing...THEY ARE ILLEGALS for the main thing.

Answer 10

Yes who have been doing them before we got attach by the illegals. What people have to remember is all these jobs have always been around before they attach America and all the jobs will be here after they leave.

Do any one remember when illegals all boycott there jobs trying to hurt our economy but it back fired on them. We made more money the day they boycott. Yes they are doing the jobs but are they paying taxes. They send all there money to there country while they get free education for their kids,free healthcare and other free services that American citizens pay for. Bye Bye all illegals the law will not and I will not miss any of them.