On my way home from my job I have to cut threw the richest neighborhood in my city. I notice all of the immigrant yard workers and maids working at these huge homes. Could this be George Bush and his rich friends reason for fighting so hard to have some illegal immigrants stay in the USA? Does he really care about these people? Is he only seeing very cheap labor for him and his rich friends? What do you believe is going on? I have never had a problem with the illegal immigrants. We all would do the same thing in there position. It's funny how people like Bill O'reilly spins the blame on to the immigrants instead of the greedy people who use these people and don't pay them hardly anything in return for there service. O'reilly probably has cheap illegal foreign labor at his big compound.
2007-06-11 06:47:35 · 4 answers · asked by Big Sam D 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Which is exactly why this whole immigration deal is going nowhere. This society economically promotes getting the best bang for your buck and that includes labor.
You know that joke about the government wanting to build a longer, stronger wall - the punchline being "Who do you think they're going to hire to build this wall?" It's really sad how true that really is.
And yet, we piss and moan about the immigrants coming over and taking the jobs - and no accountability is being placed on the employers of said jobs.
A couple of months ago - there was a raid at a New Bedford leather factory, where they apprehended and detained 360 illegal workers after an 11 month federal investigation of sweatshop activity - many of the workforce detained were from Guatemala and Brazil. The owners of the factory came out practically unscathed - in a matter of days, they were on a plain to Puerto Rico to recruit more "staff."
Not to mention that this factory holds a major contract with the Department for Defense (producing safety vest and backpacks for the U.S. Military)
You want another example of employers needing to be held accountable - go rent Roger & Me - about General Motors CEO Roger Smith - who closed down several factories in Michigan and took them overseas - putting practically an entire town out of work.
The point is - if we're going to play the blame game on this whole immigration mess, we'd better wise up and make sure we're blaming the right people.
2007-06-11 09:50:40 · answer #1 · answered by Pask 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a liberal, I desire to be wealthy at some point. I'm now not certain what "hippie" approach, however I'm assuming anybody who honestly offers a $h!t approximately anybody else is a hippie, so that is me. I cross into welfare neighborhoods always, unarmed. The best men and women who've a hindrance in deficient neighborhoods are those who suppose they are too well to be there. They're out of location, and it suggests.
2016-09-05 12:50:20 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's never been a secret that employers appreciate cheap labor. And for damn sure americans will not work for the low wages that illegals will work for. All I object to is that illegals benefit from an infrastructure that they do not pay to support. I say, if they want to work, fine, but their employers should be paying taxes on those wages.
2007-06-11 06:54:39 · answer #3 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course, it's got everything to do with cheap labor.
Cheap labor for servants, factories, yard work, etc.
The "they'll do the jobs most Americans don't want" line is a bunch of crap. Thanks to low wages/worthless currency, of course, most of us don't want the lowest, unskilled jobs.
2007-06-11 06:52:46 · answer #4 · answered by mrearly2 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋