In the past, waves of immigrants into the USA provided the labor force for many lower paying jobs in the USA. With limits of immigration, those jobs are being filled today by illegals crossing the border from Mexico.
What is the solution to the need of low skilled labor in an expanding economy? Do we just continue to let illegals to cross the border? Do we start some sort of guest worker program as Bush suggested? Do we try to annex or purchase the northern provinces of Mexico and create new states?
What do you see as the solution to this problem?
2007-12-08 03:11:52 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Some of the jobs they fill used to be done by teenagers for summer employment or by retired people. I haven't heard that issue addressed. Maybe it doesn't need to be. Unknown.
I think a guest worker program would be best but first the U.S. and Mexico need to get these people to respect that we are two separate countries with separate laws and citizenship. The guest worker program would permit the government to know who is here and why. Also, minimum wage laws could be enforced and there would be less chance of these people being taken advantage of. Also, only the number needed would be permitted in the country which would then ease the threat of U.S. citizens loosing their jobs to illegals. Nothing works if the laws are ignored.
2007-12-08 03:39:50 · answer #1 · answered by BekindtoAnimals22 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To be able to get Americans to take these "low level" jobs, we would have to pay a minimum of minimum wage for them. If we do this, prices WILL rise, and everyone will have to get used to them. Immigrant labor was first allowed in during WWII, because of all the soldiers who couldn't be here to do the jobs. Afterwards, there were some bitter fights trying to send home people who had been here legally! But it was this legal toehold that first got aliens interested in coming here for work, and it has mushroomed over time. If we were not dependent on Mexico for a whole lot of our oil, we could be sterner about telling them to improve their own economy so that people could make a decent living there. But as with so many other things, our dependence on oil holds us prisoner to a situation we don't like.
2007-12-08 11:27:22 · answer #2 · answered by mommanuke 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The immigrants who came to our country from Europe and those fleeing Hitler's Nazi Germany, came here to build up our country. And they came into this country legally, through Ellis Island.
Sneaking across the border and hoping no one notices,a s well as draining our health, education and welfate system is not coming into this country legally.
I believe the solution to this problem is to close the borders.
We actually have the right to investigate illegal workers and employers who have hired illegals knowingly. So raids on work places should continue.
We also need to make Mexico responsible for its economy. We are Mexico's employer and welfare state.
And I still believe that deportation is the answer. It works successfully in Maricopa County, AZ for Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
He deports illegals found in his district. If the Federal government and states got tough on illegals and deported them, they would quit coming over here. We also need to cut off all social benefit programs to them.
The government also needs to crack down on landlords who rent to illegals.
2007-12-08 11:37:26 · answer #3 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Legal immigrants following the rules, and illegal immigrants
violating our laws, borders and culture are NOT
COMPARABLE IN ANY WAY!!!!!
2007-12-08 11:20:49 · answer #4 · answered by realitycheck 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about we just secure the borders, and don't let anyone who isn't legally allowed to be in the US come in.
2007-12-08 11:24:07 · answer #5 · answered by Bubba 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have pondered this very question many times. I have wondered if it is natural to want to expand. I think it is. We cannot contain ourselves like a bubble. We will pop
2007-12-08 11:25:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋