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Whistleblower Says Illegal Aliens Have ‘Taken Over Every Trade’ in CA Construction (T)
Breitbart ^ | 14 March 2018 | John Binder

Posted on 03/15/2018 6:09:14 AM PDT by PapaBear3625

A whistleblower in the southern California construction industry says illegal alien workers have “taken over every trade” in the business while driving down wages by an estimated 40 percent.

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Blaine Taylor, the whistleblower, said the construction industry in California once offered a starting wage of about $45 an hour in the late 1980s. Fast-forward to 2018 — nearly two decades into when illegal aliens began flooding the industry — he now says that wages have fallen by more than half, standing at just $11 an hour.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; blainetaylor; buildthefence; california; construction; daca; dreamact; dreamers; illegals; immigration; invasion
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To: PapaBear3625

I know someone in upstate South CAROLINA of all places - not a hotbed of illegal immigration by any stretch - who got let go for inability to speak enough Spanish to manage a bunch of Mexicans on a construction job.


81 posted on 03/15/2018 12:12:30 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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To: Liz

Indians have been doing the same thing in the IT industry. They get entrenched somewhere and the ethnic cleansing is sure to follow.


82 posted on 03/15/2018 12:13:31 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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To: Hootowl99
I think the amount of the depression at the worker end is not as radical as some seem to concluding.

Your comment is really naive. I'm behind enemy lines in CA, and I've seen what the economic destruction did to tens of thousands of American citizens. Million of low wage illegal aliens have depressed wages significantly in nearly every sector in the Southwest.

A few decades ago, citizens were making good money in construction, $25 and $35. per hour back then and that was good money. Now? They pay tens of thousands of these illegals 11 bucks an hour... And you don't think this has significantly depressed wages? It's like dominos. You have no clue.

How bad is it Mr. Hoot? So bad many industries such as construction and warehousing had to hire illegal bilingual supervisors so the greedy unscrupulous assh*les running these businesses owners can communicate with their low wage illegal help.

83 posted on 03/15/2018 12:21:16 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Hootowl99
Your comment does not help figger out where though.

Btw, you got a computer right? There are thousands of articles and stories that will explain to ya just how significantly illegals have eff'd over wages in venues like S. CA.

Look it up.

84 posted on 03/15/2018 12:28:45 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: WayneS

that’s the question...the unions....must be huge payments to the union leader/thugs to sacrifice their fellow union members such as this...


85 posted on 03/15/2018 12:30:07 PM PDT by cherry
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To: PapaBear3625

Judging by the bridge collapse at FIU, looks like ditto in Florida.


86 posted on 03/15/2018 12:31:05 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: PapaBear3625

Hmmm...not much of a surprise to me at all:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1788926/posts


87 posted on 03/15/2018 1:16:35 PM PDT by NellieMae (Here......common sense,common sense,common sense,where'd ya go... common sense......)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Exactly!


88 posted on 03/15/2018 1:49:00 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

“figure of $45 per hr is absurd”
No, it’s not. My dad “broke me in”
(a union term) to hanging Sheetrock
when I was in high school, in northern
California, in 1969-1970. At that time
“rockers” we’re paid by the square foot.
At .07 per square, he was making close
to $100,000 a year. A little over $45
an hour....
Interesting to note, there weren’t many
rockers over 40. The pace was very demanding,
and it was hard physical work.


89 posted on 03/15/2018 1:59:12 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: PapaBear3625

and taxpayers take it on the back end to pay for social welfare costs.


90 posted on 03/15/2018 2:23:58 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: crusher2013

I really thought we were at war on Sept. 11, 2001 and President Bush would send troops from Fort Hood to the border on Sept 12th.

Instead he reduced border and interior enforcement.


91 posted on 03/15/2018 3:23:00 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Pearls Before Swine; All
It’s all a big cost-shifting scheme. Their wages are lower than citizens’ wages, because some of the costs (free medical, dodging taxes with stolen identity, schools for their kids, etc) are shifted from the wage payer to the taxpayer.

Partner, we all agree with ya on this one.

Shameful to say the least, but the Rat politicians have let if become like it is right now.

Also, the Pubbie politicians seem to not want to fight this battle.

92 posted on 03/15/2018 3:42:37 PM PDT by TheConservativeTejano
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To: EdnaMode

It’s sad to see what’s happened to Virginia.
We are nowhere near the border.


93 posted on 03/15/2018 3:42:43 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: thoughtomator

I was in South Carolina 7 years ago and was surprised to see them swarming there, too.
All of South Carolina’s Congressional delegation are Cheap Labor Express stooges.


94 posted on 03/15/2018 3:46:11 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: PapaBear3625

But illegals create opportunities we are told.


95 posted on 03/15/2018 3:46:17 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: TheConservativeTejano

The GOP has been actively blocking efforts by the citizens to stop the illegal alien inundation.
Until Trump broke through the Bush blockade at the RNC we were only offered amnesty candidates.
When we had the temerity to nominate someone for other offices who was on our side instead of with the illegal aliens and their employers, the GOP teams with the Democrats to elect the Democrat.


96 posted on 03/15/2018 3:52:39 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: TallahasseeConservative

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/n-y-teamsters-form-sanctuary-union-fight-ice-agents-article-1.3813201


97 posted on 03/15/2018 5:20:00 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: Lean-Right

Hang’n rock, sucks.


98 posted on 03/15/2018 5:45:17 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Indeed. I barely recognize it now.


99 posted on 03/15/2018 6:02:04 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: dragnet2
You can look it up. I am well aware of what the zillions of articles have written. To this exact article though, its numbers do not strongly bear this out and instead weigh more towards something else, at least for CA.

What would be useful to me is for someone directly involved on the business side of CA trades with respect to inputting personal experiences. Are these numbers accurate or not?

I have personally experienced illegals in the trades largely working at lower rungs of the wage pyramid with the paying customers largely lower income themselves. At the highest level of the trades, the employers are less likely to be complicit with employing illegals because of liabilities. As an extreme example, several decades ago, there was an explosion at a Texas petrochemical plant during the yearly maintenance shutdown. 47 people were killed, mostly the contract maintenance workers. The root cause is non-english speaking workers and their supervisors had no clue from their safety orientation what lock-out tag-out was nor with the daily task specific instructions were. So, the idiots cut off a padlock from a valve then opened the valve thus flooding a tank with combustible gas that promptly blew up. The petrochemical and refining companies forced reform on the regional safety council to play it straight regarding basic and advanced certifications and this radically weeded out lots of illegals by itself from this higher level within the wage pyramid. Still though, illegals get into the plants largely through maintenance contractors, mainly via larger crews working shutdowns.

100 posted on 03/15/2018 6:19:07 PM PDT by Hootowl99
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