If they unionize, then they'll be out of work, too.
They are best off being illegal, it makes it more hireable. They can make decent take home pay but their employers aren't paying insurance, payroll taxes, etc.
Unionizing will put them out of work.
But then at least legal Americans will be working off the books then, I guess.
It's frustrating because illegal immigrants took work away from my husband. All those people who say they only do jobs Americans won't do are wrong. People who say they are paid less than minimum wage are wrong, too. The savings is in the benefits and taxes, for the employer. YES there are illegal immigrants working jobs that few people would want and sometimes less than minimum wage, but that is not always the case and in many places, pretty rare.
If they have a right to work to feed their families, so does my legal American born husband. They have no right to break the law and work on sites that turn him away because he is American. And it's happened to him more than once, and has happened to other people in construction that he knows.
Sure, make immigration easier for blue collar workers, but lets make sure that Americans who want jobs get them, too. In a way it's like parenting. If mom and dad are sick, you can't take care of the kids as well as you could. Same with America. If your taxpayers, your citizens, are going without, it means you can't take care of others as well too. America needs to be healthy to really make a difference.
Which means that war is America's drug or something that is being wasted on, if we're looking at America as a parent...I could go somewhere with this but I'm tired. ;)
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Date: 2007-01-03 03:33 pm (UTC)They are best off being illegal, it makes it more hireable. They can make decent take home pay but their employers aren't paying insurance, payroll taxes, etc.
Unionizing will put them out of work.
But then at least legal Americans will be working off the books then, I guess.
It's frustrating because illegal immigrants took work away from my husband. All those people who say they only do jobs Americans won't do are wrong. People who say they are paid less than minimum wage are wrong, too. The savings is in the benefits and taxes, for the employer. YES there are illegal immigrants working jobs that few people would want and sometimes less than minimum wage, but that is not always the case and in many places, pretty rare.
If they have a right to work to feed their families, so does my legal American born husband. They have no right to break the law and work on sites that turn him away because he is American. And it's happened to him more than once, and has happened to other people in construction that he knows.
Sure, make immigration easier for blue collar workers, but lets make sure that Americans who want jobs get them, too. In a way it's like parenting. If mom and dad are sick, you can't take care of the kids as well as you could. Same with America. If your taxpayers, your citizens, are going without, it means you can't take care of others as well too. America needs to be healthy to really make a difference.
Which means that war is America's drug or something that is being wasted on, if we're looking at America as a parent...I could go somewhere with this but I'm tired. ;)