Why do we, as Americans, whine so much about losing jobs to illegal immigrants when:?

Question

We're losing jobs that WE REALLY WOULD do, like high-tech jobs, to India, and manufacturing jobs to China- Those are jobs that were once HIGH-paying U.S. jobs that seem more crucial than back-breaking migrant work. What do you think?

helloooo- don't any of you ever call your bank's customer support? Don't you realize you're being transferred to India for your banking needs????

Answer 1

I do not whine about "illegals taking jobs from Americans", because, as you say, there are VERY few Americans willing to pick lettuces for a dollar a day.

Look back over my answers in this forum and you will see I place the blame for the outsourcing of tens of millions of decent wage jobs to third world countries, so CEOs can award themselves millions in bonuses they neither earned nor deserve, all while convincing a naive rightwing populace that labor unions are the work of Satan, where it rightly belongs, on the backs of the few wealthy elite. I can only assume so many defend their actions because they think somehow this will get them the keys to the executive washroom.

Answer 2

I am upset at the benefits that illegal immigrants get without paying taxes.
I put off having a child untill we were married a year so that our insurance would cover all expenses and all the Mexicans need do is roll across our border in labor. We seem to reward the wrong people.
I think pressing a button on the phone to have English language used is absolutely insane in an English speaking country.
I worked some horrible jobs that I left behind as I became educated. I also never had a free ride or any benefits from the government. So tell me why old people coming over are given money as if they earned the right?

Answer 3

First, its not anti-immigrant; it's anti-illegal-immigrant, but I don't expect some illiberal to understand the difference. Next, I have already worked on a farm and have enhanced and honed my capital skills, so on a personal level no I would not take the job because I am much better at and more productive doing the line of work that I'm doing now. This is nothing more than just a ploy to embrace illegal immigration I have met hundreds of people out of work that will take those jobs in a heartbeat I expect that the UFW is just very poor at networking or marketing their job opportunities as it is hard to find many citizens and legal resident on the street cornor near homesepot looking for work.

Answer 4

We have witnessed the de-industrialization of America in the last thirty years. The US today could not produce the rails for a transcontinental railroad like the one built over one hundred years ago. All jobs should be important to America. Today high tech jobs are being shipped to India and China along with engineering jobs. What will be next?

Answer 5

You can't outsource the old white-collar professions (teaching, law, medical). In the end, these "illegals" as people like to call them do the jobs that no one WANTS to do. How many people do you know aspire to be a farmhand? The ones complaining, that being the conservatives, are the ones who profit the most from the "illegals" moving over here.

The fundamental argument people put out is that they are a drain on our resources. I can see where they're coming from, but it's supposedly not even that big of a drain.

And you're right, we ARE losing jobs to India and China, but there's really not much we can do about it because we're in a service economy, and we have mininum wage.Besides, the economy is always evolving, especially with internationalism and the Internet. Unless you're willing to give those up, I don't think it'll be stopping anytime soon.

Answer 6

That is a good point, I think I hear the whining on both spectrum's, it's just that the illegal immigrant problem is easier for most to get a hold of and use. The high tech sectors are impacted, but a smaller portion of our society is directly impacted.

Answer 7

Americans love to whine! It always seems that the people with the least to complain about do so the loudest. The only jobs we are losing to "illegals" are those no American would stoop to do. How would you like to pay $15 for a pt. of strawberries next spring?

Answer 8

Ever stop to think that Government on all levels literally rapes business and industry with taxes and mandates,regulations that make no sense.
Oil companies buy oil at $100.00 for a 50 gal. barrel,transport it half way around the world,refine it into gasoline and other products,transport it to where it's needed and employ hundreds of thousands of people.
All for $0.08 profit per gallon,while being taxed and regulated every step of the way.
Then some in government say they are making too much profit.
No wonder american jobs are going overseas.

Answer 9

Capitalistic indoctrination. The aversion and hostility against illegal immigration is a way for people to vent their frustrations about a system that threw them overboard decades ago that doesn't threaten the real powers. The elite loves it when people resent those who have it worse. As long as the oppressed can be fooled to hate other oppressed groups and blame their misery on those groups they're not questioning who's really exploiting them.
Divide and conquer

Answer 10

You have a good point. Immigration started to get really bad when the job market got really hot. As, people upgraded their skills the left low paying "menial" jobs for confy offices.

Now we have a pickle. I really believe the whole "blame illegals" mantra is developed by the big business that hire them. As long as we keep the pressure on the immigrants and not the hundred billion dollar corporations, with hundred million dollar ceos and hundred thousand dollar mid level managers who hire them, nothing will get done to stop it.

You want to end illegal immigration... here you go...

1 - boost minimum wage in certain low paying labor jobs.
2 - personally fine managers and supervisors who knowingly hire illegal immigrants
3 - seriously fine big business and small business for violations. Caught 1 time in a company with over 1,000,000,000 in revenue, its a 1,000,000 spot fine. Caught twice its 5,000,000. Third time, 25 million dollar fine.