Maybe the supply of illegals will disappear.
“Jobs Americans won’t do” — at the substandard wages that the illegals are being paid.
Yet when businesses are raided and the illegal employees carted away, there’s always a line of applicants for the job.
Hispanic teams under a Hispanic supervisor will do the work, all of it, no problemas for el jefe Gringo.
The Gringo contractor only has to obtain the contract.
One roofing contractor neighbor has three teams he obtains contracts for.
Another neighbor manages software development teams around the globe.
Taht's the truth of the matter right there.
Plus, some employers simply won't consider American workers for these jobs.
I say we should stiffen the penalties for employers who hire illegals. I want to see them perp walked.
Using Hispanic teams, the Gringo contractor can concentrate on getting contracts and not on some legacy American’s substance abuse problems.
The more teams a contractor has, the greater the contractor’s income.
Contractors want more money. They want more teams.
The problem is, are Americans willing to pay more for American labor?
Using dry walling as the example, IMO it is a craft. There are those that slop it together and rely on texturing to hide their poor workmanship. And there are those so good that there are no mistakes and texturing would be a sin covering their good work.
Case in point: In the mid-90’s we bought a new custom built house in Canada and had it moved to our new lot in the US. The city building inspector spent several minutes inspecting the drywall. He looked at it from different angles and using a flashlight from different lighting perspectives. I was getting worried, so I asked him what’s wrong. He said NOTHING. He said he’d never seen drywall this perfect before. He could not find one single seem where the drywall sheets were joined. Corners were perfect and not one screw could be observed.
Get rid of the illegals and the craftsman will reemerge if paid a good wage. Fine the living hell out of employers hiring illegals and wages will soon go up for American workers.
Another story about illegals that really pissed me off. For a few years I did oil field construction running heavy equipment. I got a very good wage and was proud of my work, as were my co-workers. My leftist sister from Kalifornia came to visit and I bragged about my job. She dismissed my pride with one little remark: “We have Mexicans in California that do that stuff”. To me it was very degrading.
It’s trendy now to talk about the “affordability” crisis. That has become a loaded political term and a lot can be said about its misuse. But “affordability” is usually seen as part of inflation, government over-spending, national debt, and related factors.
But a big part of why things may not be “affordable” is because wages are artificially suppressed. People deserve better wages. And better wages are NOT the thing which drives up inflation. The “affordability” crisis ends when people get paid better.
April 9, 2007: Speech on Comprehensive Immigration Reform
"The second element of a comprehensive immigration reform is a temporary worker program. You cannot fully secure the border until we take pressure off the border. And that requires a temporary worker program. It seems to make sense to me that if you've got people coming here to do jobs Americans aren't doing, we need to figure out a way that they can do so in a legal basis for a temporary period of time. And that way our Border Patrol can chase the criminals and the drug runners, potential terrorists, and not have to try to chase people who are coming here to do work Americans are not doing."--George W. Bush
How did that work out, 'W'? Better than expected from the Uniparty POV I suspect.
That's $28.31/hr in November 2025 dollars.
Think anyone today in that area gets $28.21/hr for construction labor? Mass illegal immigration is why.
March 2019- My dad died and I had been laid off (CAD Design) for awhile and when I retuned home I decided to take advantage of an offer to mow fairways at one of the best resort-class public golf courses in the area. There was manual labor in the afternoon hours and the pay was only $11 per hour. I lost 45 pounds during that 6 1/2 months, and it was just what the doctor ordered. Mowing those fairways on an $80,000 Toro Reelmaster was the best “therapy” for me. I would do it again next year but for the manual labor that I can’t really do anymore. There was a contingent of Hispanics from Mexico on the crew and they were in the minority. We all did our share to keep the course as playable as it could be and the landscaping around the clubhouse was also beautiful. Some of the younger Mexican’s jobs were manual labor only and I could see that some of them wanted something better and a couple of them quit halfway through the season. I also had this sense of some of them wanting to bump me from mowing fairways so they could get off of their feet. Fortunately, the Superintendent had my back and I ended up having mowed more fairway acreage than anyone else that year. It was a small victory and I think my dad would’ve been proud.
You have to pay a wage that will attract enough people willing to do the work you want done. If you're not finding enough people willing to do that work then you need to pay more. You can stop your crying and whining right now. Its called the free market.
Flooding the country with cheap foreign labor is not the free market. That is rigging the game. That must not be allowed. If companies do not like hiring Americans and paying them American wages they are free to leave - and pay a big fat tariff if they want to access the American market. That's capitalism baby!.
Make it 50 years, and combine it with deportation of EVERY SINGLE ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIMINAL INVADER, and every one of their children, and their children‘s children, etc.
Enough is enough.
I had a relative who was a roofer. Very good craftsman. Shut down his business and started doing one man roof repairs because he did not want to work with illegals but could not compete without them.
Americans don’t want jobs. They want an RV paid for by the taxpayers so they can spend all their time in Montana and Wyoming poking the Grizzlies and the buffalo. They all are now “disabled” and have turned the Walmart parking lots into what looks like used Wallymobile dealerships.
If your life is shot at 35 because 20 year-olds can do your job, you aren’t doing life right.
half the construction jobs in Arizona went to illegal immigrants after Reagan’s amnesty, and the wages did not rise for 15 years, which is why Americans stopped doing them. $9 per hour in 1983 is one thing. $9 per hour in 2000 was another thing. Homes in Arizona got bigger and bigger. none of these jobs were jobs Americans did not want to do, they were squeezed out of them because of how little they began to pay and because preference was to give the jobs to immigrants,especially when speaking English was not a qualification for getting hired, and after a while, speaking Spanish was a job requirement of managing Spanish speaking workers and customers.
It is as if our whole system were run by a Jewish mother who demands her kids be college educated professionals who wear suits to work and don’t ever get their hands dirty......but it is ok for immigrants.
But hiring mostly foreigners is happening in companies such as Intel. American companies sometimes have foreign born CEOs and even are foreign owned because the USA allows foreign ownership of land and businesses that most countries do not allow. Even our politicians are sold to the highest bidder these days.
“Jobs Americans won’t do” created by George W Bush, circa 2003....
We need fewer buying into the lie that they need to go to college. There are far better options for most people.
They’re not used to working after they spend 5-6 years in college. It takes 5 years for the average student to receive a bachelors degree.
It’s one reason why many illegals flourished. They were taking hard working jobs while our young were being fed useless crap at many of our colleges and universities. And they want us to pay for them not working while they were being fed useless crap.
We’ve got to hold the colleges and universities accountable.
We’ve got to limit the funds we’re offering for unproductive degrees. If a school is not offering a return for their students, we need to limit the taxpayer funds they can take. A lot of these places of higher learning need to be shut down.
I still remember a column I read in which a Vermont Democrat accused Vermonters of needing illegal aliens because they don’t want to wipe their own butts.