If an empoyer needed 30 people to pick fruit, he could notify an agent in Mexico, send a bus to pick them up, work til the jobs done, bus them back, if there is only 29 on the bus, he gets fined for one. These would be legal immigrents only.
Just a thought, what do you think?
2007-09-25 15:57:02 · 8 answers · asked by Commandant Marcos 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Kris; whatever they are needed for as long as it doesn't take an Americans job, picking fruit was an example only
2007-09-25 16:04:20 · update #1
Tin Man: I live in Mexico
2007-09-25 16:07:55 · update #2
Student; All business have overhead, if we can grow 200 trees we can rent a bus and if we can't we can sell the trees
2007-09-25 16:11:57 · update #3
its about someone; Oddly enough the idea came from the ANM (immigration guys) down here, it is a possible sulotion to thier same problem.
2007-09-25 16:28:28 · update #4
Solutions are what I was looking for, I know there are questions, but what are the solutions? I guess I,m getting tired of "who will do the jobs" crap we get in here.
2007-09-25 16:37:59 · update #5
Why not send that same bus into the nearest city and pick up Americans in need of work.
It's bull that Americans don't even get the chance to try. We have millions of teenagers with nothing to do in the summer who would love the opportunity to make some money.
So here's my thought, set up a center for teen day laborers (they might not want to work that hard everyday, but they would work their little tushies off to earn money for dates and such)
Back when I was a teen there were jobs and boys took girls out to movies and restaurants. They could afford cars and concerts with their OWN money. What happened to that? Now all I see are teens wandering around the neighborhood with nothing to do.
2007-09-25 16:54:07 · answer #1 · answered by Drixnot 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The idea certainly has merit and the value to assist fellow Mexicans in earning a day's wage is commendable. There could and would be problems (though far fewer and of less magnitude than what we deal with now).
If number 30 skips and has babies, though the constitution is clear that the kids would be subject to the jurisdiction of the parents, the Supreme Court has become confused on the issue. This is a primary concern of citizens against illegal presence.
Second, what happens if an employer allegedly wrongs one of the workers? Which court system would have jurisdiction to try the case? Which nation's laws would apply? Who would ultimately pay?
Third, if a worker is injured, who pays?
I like your idea and would almost support it if these probs were solved.
Still, the availability of cheap labor has always kept economies behind others dependent only on advancement and automation. No reliance issues could be permitted, lest we continue enslaved to the same defeatist mentality, here.
And at the end of the day, Mexico, as all nations who could temporarily benefit from jobs in an already-developed economy is best served by tackling the same challenges.
Ask who would be happy to help our neighbors become developed and, aside from a few perverse politicians (and Columbia Univ.), pretty much everyone would express a determination to help. It's the future we're talking about.
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2007-09-25 23:19:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting concept, but how do you make sure the bus drivers aren't paid off? If American employers can be dishonest, if there are all of the ones taking money to help illegal aliens get into the country, if there are all of the websites stealing money from people trying to immigrate, what's going to stop the bus drivers? Or do the bus counts?
I admire you trying to find a solution, but I really don't think it would work.
Actually, near me, we do have one business that sends old school buses from our rural area into the city to pick-up workers daily. It seems to work, and helps to increase job opportunities, but they are all citizens.... I think.
Edit: I wish I did know a feasible solution. No matter what I think of, I can think of 10 arguments against it. This idea is one of the better ones I've seen, for sure.
2007-09-25 23:32:40 · answer #3 · answered by steddy voter 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know, on your "bus load of 30", there would hardly EVER be 1 missing. They would all just take turns coming and going into Mexico and the USA. Hell, they get the best of both worlds. Their homes and families, and a heck of a lot more money than they could dream making in Mexico.
2007-09-25 23:41:25 · answer #4 · answered by notgrannysmith 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is currently in progress. Many of this guestworkers are wary as they remember the last time such a program was in effect. A lot of the money never made it to the workers - either the US Gov't negleted or the MX Gov't stashed it or both...
2007-09-25 23:28:03 · answer #5 · answered by Mephisto 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And the costs of busing these people would outweigh any benefit the employer gains from their lower wages, giving him an incentive to look for illegal immigrants. I think this would be too complex and expensive to be a realistic solution.
2007-09-25 23:06:00 · answer #6 · answered by student_of_life 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Individual responsibility and accountability? You mean as in for your own choices?
Wow , Novel Concept. You must not be from around here.
2007-09-25 23:05:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
that might work.
but, do you honestly believe that they are only here picking vegetables??? if you do then you had better think again!!!
2007-09-25 23:00:32 · answer #8 · answered by KRIS 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋