Posted on 04/22/2006 11:49:07 AM PDT by Rick_Michael
3% of Illegal Aliens Do Low-Paid Stoop Agricultural Labor; the Remaining 97% Take Jobs That Americans Want and Need
The most recent Pew Hispanic Center 's study indicates that 97% of 12 to 20 million illegal aliens are working in construction, hospitality, manufacturing, restaurant, administrative and service jobs. Are these jobs that Americans will not do?
The distinguished Senators Kennedy, McCain, Specter, Brownback, DeWine, Martinez , Hagel and Graham appear to believe that Americans are lazy and unmotivated to do a days work. If this is so, then who did these jobs before unethical employers opted to break the law by hiring a massive number of illegal aliens on the cheap? Incidentally, who is doing these jobs today in states where ethical employers are still hiring Americans, paying living wages, healthcare benefits and on-the-job accident insurance?
Whereas most Americans feel great compassion for the 5 billion people living outside the industrialized world, anyone of who would live a better life in America; our Senators seem to place their sympathies with the crooked and influential employers that want to keep the criminal alien employees that are already working for them. If this were not the case, the illegal alien employers represented by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce would not object to granting Guest Worker status ONLY to those who have never violated our immigration laws.
Let's be honest about this. The Senate Judiciary Committee amnesty proposal is in effect an amnesty for the criminal employers who have been avoiding employer sanctions since the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). IRCA was America 's last failed attempt at granting amnesty to criminal aliens to stem the tide of illegal immigration. The border security and employer (of illegal alien) sanction provision of IRCA were not enforced. So after eliminating the 3.5 million illegal aliens in the United States via the 1986 amnesty, the number of illegal aliens has swollen to 12 to 20 million in 20 years. Why? Because our government did not secure our borders and enforce employer sanctions as promised in the IRCA.
The Government Accounting Office (GAO) report dated March 6th, 2006 concludes that the agency that would be in charge of the proposed amnesty of 2006, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service, is incapable of administering and enforcing the new amnesty, therefore condemning the proposed 2006 amnesty to failure from the start.
28% of prisoners in federal prisons are illegal aliens, according the United States Justice Department. Not all of those 12 to 20 million illegal aliens have come to America to work. Some have come to commit crimes.
Only 5% of those surveyed by the Pew Hispanic Center in December 2005, who have been in the U.S. for two years or less, were unemployed while still in Mexico . Unemployment plays a minimal role in motivating workers from Mexico to migrate to the U.S.
As to the "hard-working" claim, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) notes: "The proportion of immigrant-headed households using at least one major welfare program is 24.5 percent compared to 16.3 percent for native households."
If we think that education is going to protect our jobs against globalization on one hand and on the other, the labor cheapening effect of open-borders, think again.
Our Senators and some in Congress are working closely with America 's most powerful business interests, many controlled by multinationals and globalized capital, to either outsource your job or import both skilled and unskilled labor in massive proportions. The idea is that skilled workers in other countries will work for less than comparably educated Americans; and that when labor, when properly viewed as a commodity such as sugar or oil, gets cheaper with over-supply. If you are relying on the Senate and the Congress to ensure your wellbeing and that of your children, you are sadly mistaken. Their efforts are creating open borders is only one part of the problem.
The front page Los Angeles Times article dated March 6, 2006 entitled “ That Good Education Might Not Be Enough , states, "More education has been the right answer for the past few decades," said Princeton University economist and former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Alan S. Blinder, "but I'm not so convinced that it's the right course" for coping with the upheavals of globalization. Most studies suggest that beyond the manufacturing sector, the "offshoring" of jobs has been comparatively modest. But some analysts say the ground has been laid for a substantial pickup. In a recent paper, Blinder offered a rough estimate that suggested that as many as 42 million jobs, or nearly one-third of the nation's total, were susceptible to offshoring.
A growing number of Americans: Democrats, Republicans and independents, agree with the sentiments expressed by the Democrat Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid who is quoted as saying, “ Currently, an alien living illegally in the United States often pays no taxes but receives unemployment, welfare, free medical care and other federal benefits. Recent terrorist acts, including the World Trade Center bombing, have underscored the need to keep violent criminals out of the country.”
The Field Poll of September of 2005 showed that 81% of Californians are concerned about illegal immigration and 49% think that is a very serious problem. The Field Poll of March 2006 showed that 57% of registered voters think illegal immigration is a serious problem and a whopping 71% of registered Republicans share that view. It seems that many now agree with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid even as he is now supporting the Guest Worker Amnesty tooted by President Bush.
President Bush and the Republican Senators echoing his wishes would like to correct us when by all appearances the forgiveness of crimes and tax fraud committed by illegal aliens looks like an amnesty. The President claims that it is not. In my opinion the penalty for illegal immigration is deportation; anything less is amnesty.
On light of the utter failure of America 's last attempt at granting amnesty, IRCA of 1986, there must not be any talk of Guest Worker programs until our borders are secured, employer sanctions are enforced and the last illegal immigrant has left or has been deported from our land.
To make your opinion heard about the proposed amnesty of 2006, you are welcome to visit www.numbersusa.com where you can use tools to contact your Congressperson and Senators.
My name is Tony Dolz . I am a foreign-born Hispanic legal immigrant, now a naturalized citizen. My wife is also a foreign-born legal immigrant. In our family we celebrate legal immigration and oppose illegal immigration. I am a candidate for California 41 st Assembly District. The cities of my district include: Santa Monica , Malibu , Malibu Heights , Pacific Palisades, Topanga, Agoura, Agoura Hills, Encino, Woodland Hills, Westlake Village , Hidden Hills and Calabasas.
you're right, i won't pick strawberries for $4/hour...it's the businesses that love it, keeps P&A down
Thanks for posting this...
you're right, i won't pick strawberries for $4/hour...it's the businesses that love it, keeps P&A down
So, is this the sacrificial MinuteMan candidate running in the district that thinks more like Barbra Streisand?
"Jobs Americans won't do"
Was one of the most insulting phrases anyone could say about taxpaying voters.
How must it have sounded to the rest of the world hearing who said it.
It wasn't a lib or Fox of mexico, no, .. worse.
So why waste tax dollars on public schools... 75% of the illegals don't have a high school diploma and the employers don't seem to mind!
3% of Illegal Aliens Do Low-Paid Stoop Agricultural Labor; the Remaining 97% Take Jobs That Americans Want and Need
The most recent Pew Hispanic Center 's study indicates that 97% of 12 to 20 million illegal aliens are working in construction, hospitality, manufacturing, restaurant, administrative and service jobs. Are these jobs that Americans will not do?
For the record they get paid $10 and hour and they ahve a union.
BUT the irony of it is produce sold in our supermarkets come from other countries so why do American companies NEED,MUST HAVE illegals imported??
ahve = have
Let's be honest about this. The Senate Judiciary Committee amnesty proposal is in effect an amnesty for the criminal employers who have been avoiding employer sanctions since the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
There it is!
Without the taxpayer provided babysitting service the illegals would need a higher wage.
"The most recent Pew Hispanic Center 's study indicates that 97% of 12 to 20 million illegal aliens are working in construction, hospitality, manufacturing, restaurant, administrative and service jobs. Are these jobs that Americans will not do?"
I could have sworn we had farms here. And I'm nearly positive that I've driven through hundreds of miles of orchards in California.
Which country do we import Idaho potatoes from?
Dear Applicant:
Thank you for your letter of application. Unfortunately, you did not meet our requirements for Federal, State, Local and FICA taxes, as well as Medicare, Social Security and Workmen's Comp, meaning to say - we don't want to pay any of that. We'd rather you stay in your current job and indirectly pay for all of these things for our illegals.
Muchas Gracias y Lo Siento,
El Gordo
PING
You'd think houses would be cheaper because of the cheap labor involved...but the market is mixed (ie there's many Americans working in the industry as well), and so the prices still follow the most someone is willing to pay for the property. In other words, the developers are raking in tons of cash at the expense of everyone else.
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