Immigration

[PETA]

Originally Posted by david austin

I believe we all underestimate the jobs that people will do if it comes down to it.

During the Depression we had vast relocations of populations looking for work.

I am not advocating a 'round up' but we are dangerously close to having a population to work ratio that will cause a collapse on its own.

Again, Mexicans do jobs Americans won't do at that rate. If there are no illegals to do the job at the lower rate either employers will pay more or the job won't get done. If ERs choose the latter we can be fairly confident that it wasn't terribly important in the first place. Besides, the argument is one of two 1) the jobs are shit jobs.... ok, then they probably aren't terribly important such that our economy is going to have a seizure if they don't get done - imagine - restaurants hiring teenagers to wash dishes again instead of illegals trying to support a family on less than minimum wage and 2) they are important jobs building roads etc... ok, then employers will need to fill the empty spots and they'll have to pay a fair labor wage and Aermicans will work for a fair labor wage.

[FarangBa]

Originally Posted by PETA

imagine - restaurants hiring teenagers to wash dishes again instead of illegals trying to support a family on less than minimum wage and 2) they are important jobs building roads etc... ok, then employers will need to fill the empty spots and they'll have to pay a fair labor wage and Aermicans will work for a fair labor wage.

HaHa... word! I may be slow, but in the past 18mths I've noticed that virtually ALL Subway stores no longer have teenagers working in them. I've probably been to about 30 different ones throughout Dallas County and at least 90% are staffed by latinos.

Originally Posted by PETA

they are important jobs building roads etc... ok, then employers will need to fill the empty spots and they'll have to pay a fair labor wage and Aermicans will work for a fair labor wage.

Absolutely, since the economy has gone down we have been continuously getting outbit for new contracts. It took us about 4-6months figuring out how this is done. Now we know that the sub-contractors who are quoting the jobs so low are using a different sub-contractor who hires illegal aliens for a lot of the work. These are sometimes HUGE contracts, county contracts, city contracts, federal and otherwise.

How? The larger contractors are purposely contracting out work that their company can do themselves (because it's cheaper) to another sub-contractor. This is because they are technically protected against prosecution for hiring illegals because it then becomes the sub-contractors responsibility to ensure all workers are illegal. Typically, it is NOT cheaper to sub-contract something that your company can do by itself. Since last October, however, things have changed.

Don't believe me? ask someone you know who worked on the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. The upgrade over at the Omni Theatre. Any of the County hospital expansions within 100 miles of Dallas.