Remember the Jennifer Beals character from Flashdance.Sounds like work opportunities have expanded for American welders.
I know welders looking for work. They are American welders though. I wonder if these ***holes would consider hiring Americans.
Remember the Jennifer Beals character from Flashdance. That will be great with a 25% tariff on top!
Another politically biased piece from NPR.
I hope Trump can manage to defund this propaganda arm of the DNC after the 2020 election.
I think I see the problem...and the solution.
Sounds like they might actually finally have to pay a decent wage for welders.
If your business model includes the need to hire illegal aliens then you are running a criminal operation and need to go out of business and/or prosecuted.
unauthorized immigrants
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Illegal aliens.
They are not immigrants.
If you know young men, not a good fit for college or the military, get them into welding.
So after 17 years in the US, why hadn’t Barrios gotten a green card and applied for US citizenship?
In say if a merchant doesn’t offer their goods at a price I’m willing to pay, I’m free to steal tit. Right ?
Where is that tiny violin? Another Cheap Labor employer butt-hurt because he doesn’t want to pay what American welders get per hour. Send them all back to Mexico and Central America. We’ll have hundreds of job openings and there will be people to fill them in six months…at a decent wage, of course.
A fine of $5,000 per day per illegal worker sounds about right to me.
5 years in a Federal penitentiary for the second offense.
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"not something you ever planned on living out in real life."
There's a new Sheriff in town, Kevin.
Good. Send them all back to Mexico and let Americans weld steel.
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.