Posted on 10/19/2018 7:14:14 AM PDT by gattaca
Hiebert says they hire whoever walks in the door, and they pay decent wages — $20 to $25 an hour. Still, they’ve always had a hard time finding welders
Must be a pretty happy bunch of Mexicans working down there in Texas. s
Comprehensive immigration reform is, so far, dead in the water in the gridlocked Congress.
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What they mean is amnesty.
There are still plenty of Bush League Republicans willing to vote for amnesty in Congress.
After the next election.
Flake, Corker, Hatch, Heller, Alexander, Graham, McCain, Murkowsky, Hoeven, Rubio voted for the last one.
Tillis, Burr, Lankford, Gardner, Cornyn, Cochran, Collins, Sasse, Kennedy, Shelby, Ernst, Blunt, McConnell, Wicker, Portman, Isakson, Johnson, Toomey, Rounds, Thune, Gaines, Barasso and Enzi are available to vote for the next on if their vote is needed.
We need more than 4 or 5 Senators on the side of the citizens and the rule of law.
I know what I’m about to say is unpopular here on FR now a days, but that doesn’t make it any less true.
Having worked in the asbestos abatement industry over the years as a project manager I can tell you that finding American workers who will do hot, dirty, dangerous jobs even for good pay is not easy. Most of the jobs I worked paid $25-30/hr. prevailing wage + bennies and you couldn’t find Americans, black or white, to do them. I trained workers and in most classes the Black and white guys dropped out the first time they had to suit and get dirty. It was also sad how many, especially the young white guys, couldn’t pass the drug test. Most company used legal crews that came up from Central America, worked the busy summer season, and went home in the winter. Hardest working people I’ve ever met. We desperately need a guest worker program in this country, because like it or not there are some jobs Americans just won’t do. I wouldn’t think welder would be one, but there are some.
Texas has always been knowingly duplicitous when it comes to illegal immigration.
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Especially their politicians.
George W. Bush, George P. Bush, Rick Perry, etc.
There are plenty of American welders looking for good work. These companies just want to pay Mexican wages under the table rather than American wages aboveboard.
It must be comforting to trailer owners to know that people who don’t respect law (ilegals and those that hire thej) built the trailer?
Illegal aliens cannot get green cards because they are illegal aliens.
Green cards must be applied for in their home country and they have to wait their turn there.
Unfortunately we're probably stuck with him for a few terms... **coughcoughbaptistscoughcough**
This is one reason why real wages for lower middle class workers in America are rising for the first time in decades. A shortage of $8/hr illegal welders=opportunity for $25/hr American workers.
Its quite obvious why the neverTrump cheap labor express (Koch brothers, Chamber of Commerce, etc.) have sold their “conservative” souls to stop MAGA.
I’m very interested in knowing where Lindsey Graham stands on this.
Dear clueless try $25 - $30 an hour then.
Once you are illegal, there is no path back to being legal besides returning to your home country and filing the proper application so you can wait your turn in line. This is not a children’s game of “hide and seek” where you can run faster than the seeker back to be safe on home base. The requirement for a properly completed I-9 form has been in place since the 80s and employers who haven’t figured out how to manage their business legally by now deserve the full weight of consequences.
Oh, my! I'll bet NPR's faggoty little reporter felt quite a thrill going up his leg as he wrote those manly words... manly words, not words he often has occasion to write.
Not letting illegals weld big rig trailers together sounds like a plus for public safety.
One of the Tigertown owners was just whining on NPR——NEEDS the illegals.
They then started to interview one of the illegal workers who has been here for many years-——he spoke in Spanish-———and off went my radio.
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One of the Tigertown owners was just whining on NPR——NEEDS the illegals.
They then started to interview one of the illegal workers who has been here for many years-——he spoke in Spanish-———and off went my radio.
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there are some jobs Americans just won’t do.
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I have watched enough “Dirty Jobs” to know that is a lie.
I have also worked enough dirty jobs myself to know that is not true as well.
Wow. Who’s going to pick the cotton if we free the slaves I wonder.
My brother used to employ a number of such young men, both black and white in South Carolina, all good paying contruction jobs. He went under because he followed the law. His competitors all hired illegals and paid cash under the table.
Probably because all the years of depressed wages drove many away from wanting to even train to become a welder. It's going to take time to catch up.
It’s a $10,000 fine for each illegal alien employee, isn’t it?
For that kind of money, he could set up his own welding school.
The illegals now have an opportunity to build their own trailer business -in Mexico.
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