Shouldn’t we take advantage of cheap labor (legally) from Latina America?

Question

Instead of continuing engrossing China’s economy with our imports?

Answer 1

Yes, cheap labor from Latin America should be use, the same also goes for cheap labor from the USA itself and also from China.

The problem is the labor laws, especially the minimum wage laws. These laws make it expensive to employ people legally in the USA.

Some people who want to employ people legally at an affordable price have to employ people OUTSIDE the USA.

And if the prices INSIDE the USA are too expensive to be bought by people INSIDE the USA, then people will only sell the most basic things INSIDE the USA and sell other stuff OUTSIDE the USA.



So this up to the labor laws.

If people want to buy local products at lower prices, then either the labor laws have to change or they have ignore the labor laws and conduct things illegally.

So what's the problem here is the labor laws, not lazy USA people, cost cutting companies, illegal immigrants, and even foreign countries.

Answer 2

Legal immigration or persons who have short term work visas such as migrant farm workers are not the problem. Illegal immigrants are often unable to qualify for a visa due to past criminal activity. See the example below:

11 year-old girl shoots two home intruders

5-2-07 -- Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez, 23, and Enrico Garza, 26, probably believed they would easily overpower a home alone eleven year old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two story home. It seems the two crooks never learned two things: they were in Montana, and Patricia had been a clay shooting champion since she was nine. Patricia was in her upstairs bedroom when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father's room and grabbed his 12 gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun. Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buck shot from the girl's knee crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals. When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive.

It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen .45 caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. The victim, 50 year old David Burien, was not so lucky as he died from stab wounds to the chest. Patricia staved off a robbery and potential rape because her parents taught her how to use a gun.
Her parents just didn't hide a gun in the house and not educate her on the power that a firearm provides.
Ignorance can be deadly, but fortunately for this Montana family, knowledge was power.

TWO ILLEGALS THAT WILL BE SENT BACK........ .......IN A BOX! When will our lawmakers get a clue and secure the border. Then we can decide what to do with the Illegals already here. You cant bail out a boat if you dont fix the leak first!

Answer 3

No this country abolished slavery long ago.

Cheap labor should be outlawed but companies get greater profit out of it.

What happened to the pride of buy American in the 80s and early 90's.

We seriously need to put a damper on the outsourcing of all jobs and become more independent in the current political climate of the world anyway.

At any moment some of these countries could erupt into war and these corporations who have shipped all their workforce there will be begging the govt for subsidizing like the airlines do.

It is not good for the American people.

Answer 4

We should bring back Tariffs that Reagan and every president after him has killed. Tariffs are basically a labor tax on imported goods. For example, if Nike wants cheap labor in Taiwan that costs $1 in labor to make a shoe, and that same shoe would cost $3 dollars in labor in the U.S., the Tariff to import those shoes from Taiwan to the U.S. would be $2. This kills the incentive for American companies to go to other countries to make goods.

To claudia that thinks Americans are lazy: the manufacturing sector has lost 3 million jobs since January 2001. Makes it hard to get off our asses when they ship our jobs to Asia.

Answer 5

First of all the cost of labor in China is significantly lower than in Latin America.
Second we do take advantage of Latin American cheap labor - have you heard of NAFTA?
Third - why should we want to exclude China from the world economy?

Answer 6

In general, yes. China is still a repressive government, while most SA countries are at least nominally free and democratic. I believe that Mexico basically uses the US as a relief valve for their society. If those 12 million hard workers (and even most critics admit that) were forced to stay in Mexico, they'd eventually question why a country so rich in human and natural resources is still so poor, and they might do something about it. The ruling elites don't want that, so they encourage emmigration.

Answer 7

No.

We should figure out how to produce goods legally in the US with our expensive labor, or buy goods from other countries.

Do you think the US economy, now seriously leveraged, is an endless goldmine? Who's going to buy all the crap if there are no jobs here?

Sheesh!

Answer 8

No. The liberals say we have starving and poor people
right here in the U.S. so let's give them a chance at any
jobs available instead of offering them to Mexicans and
others.

Answer 9

ok Where are they going to live!! Americans nead jobs! The well to do and rich have had their last dance useing cheap help ! Now its time for them to pay up!

Answer 10

No, we should be embracing local workers, such as what America wants out of its elected leaders.