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"Mark Hickey" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Ahhh, Mark, my old political nemesis -
> >
> >We in the non-border states know that this is a complex issue as well.
> >
> >I agree that people dying by the semi-trailer load 'cuz they were
> >locked in and the trailer left in the desert sun for seven hours is
> >bad. I agree that heroin and cocaine traffickers should be more of a
> >focus than illegal workers.
> >
> >But it isn't all that surprising that the Bushco solution is one that
> >results in the loss of American jobs to low-wage foreign workers, now
> >is it?
>
> That's kinda how I was looking at it too... Thing is, the jobs we're
> talking about are those that are already being done by Mexicans, and
> will be done by Mexicans whether they are "guest workers" or
> "illegals". And they're by and large jobs that Americans don't want
> to do - if we could export every illegal and seal the border, we'd
> essentially kill the produce industry overnight.
>
But it's not the produce industry that's the problem. We've had migrants
picking lettuce forever. Now the illegals are starting to take over the
construction business, and it's not because Americans won't do the
jobs---it's because contractors can pay them less. I see crews of
Mexicans(illegals, obviously) working on $500K homes here, and you just know
there are plenty of good ol' boy construction workers getting the shaft
because of it.
news:[email protected]...
> "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Ahhh, Mark, my old political nemesis -
> >
> >We in the non-border states know that this is a complex issue as well.
> >
> >I agree that people dying by the semi-trailer load 'cuz they were
> >locked in and the trailer left in the desert sun for seven hours is
> >bad. I agree that heroin and cocaine traffickers should be more of a
> >focus than illegal workers.
> >
> >But it isn't all that surprising that the Bushco solution is one that
> >results in the loss of American jobs to low-wage foreign workers, now
> >is it?
>
> That's kinda how I was looking at it too... Thing is, the jobs we're
> talking about are those that are already being done by Mexicans, and
> will be done by Mexicans whether they are "guest workers" or
> "illegals". And they're by and large jobs that Americans don't want
> to do - if we could export every illegal and seal the border, we'd
> essentially kill the produce industry overnight.
>
But it's not the produce industry that's the problem. We've had migrants
picking lettuce forever. Now the illegals are starting to take over the
construction business, and it's not because Americans won't do the
jobs---it's because contractors can pay them less. I see crews of
Mexicans(illegals, obviously) working on $500K homes here, and you just know
there are plenty of good ol' boy construction workers getting the shaft
because of it.