Link to article: http://www.expressnews.com/business/national/article/Trump-deportation-plan-rattles-an-industry-9233080.php
Home building business.
Without all the illegal workers, how can they build all those McMansions for Chinese Communist millionaires?
92 million out of the workforce. What they mean is CHEAP labor.
Screw them. Replace illegals with legit American workers who will do anything for a competitive wage.
They can hire legal residents or citizens. They can get quotas increased or work to get regulations reduced. But NO, they can $t break the law, bring in unvetted illegals, and expect the American citizen to pay for their medical benefits by comprom o sing ours and stretching our social support network to the point where it is breaking.
Maybe the ***** can get jobs and start acting like humans instead of animals and lunatics....
In 1994 I was hired on a crew for $10/hr during Denver's housing boom. I had never swung a hammer before. The guys who had made a lot more than that.
At the time it was the most money I had ever been paid and there was as much work as I wanted.
America has a history for creating “slavery” to satisfy its greed.
It didn’t work out well the 1st time. What makes us think it will this time?
If they want a $15 minimum wage, I would agree as long as it applies to everyone, including illegal aliens, farm workers, wait staff, etc. Furthermore, employers who hire illegal aliens shouldvbe forced to pat a surtax per hour worked to defray the excess costs of caring for the illegal alien population.
I had a close friend, retired CFO of a major national construction firm, tell me this 2 years ago or more. I cited his words regularly on free republic at the time. He said mass deportation would grind his industry to a halt. He actually blamed it on air conditioning in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way. Said Americans have outside jobs at the bottom of their list.
Consider a guy in his 20s who dropped out of school, can’t read or write, on the few jobs he has had his attendance record was as bad as it was when he was in school. His concept of a man is one who can con others. He is skilled at finding navigators who will help him get welfare.
What is that guy worth as a worker?
Consider guy #2 who also dropped out of school can’t read or write, can’t speak English very well. But his attendance on jobs has been perfect. His concept of being a man is to work.
Now consider 2 groups of men. In one group, 80% of the men are like guy #1. In the 2d group 80% of the men are like guy #2.
The 20% of good guys in group #1 face discrimination. The 20% of bad guys in group #2 enjoy affirmative action.
This is the problem we face.
Many anecdotes can be told of the 80% and of the 20% in each group.
TFB. They wouldn't have that issue if they paid what the workers are worth. It's that pesky old supply and demand thing.
I still like the one FReeper's tag line from a few years back that said something to the effect of "If your business model relies on illegal laborers, you get no sympathy from the rest of us".
There, fixed it.
They are called poor black, and white, Americans. Hire them.
The $11/hr is only part of the story. The rest of the story is the illegals will work 60 hours per week for that same hourly rate—no time-and-a-half for anything over 40 hours. This is how the builder makes out like a bandit.
The other half of this is to cut welfare benefits. There is no labor shortage...there is a work ethic shortage. Jobs Americans won’t do? They are not hungry enough to bring home the bacon.
Immigrants deported. Labor is dear, spurring competition....price of labor rises. Corporate tax reduced. Money is distributed to formerly idle labourers without government taking $0.70 on every dollar. Workers benefit; corporations benefit.
What’s not to like?
Just doing jobs that Americans won’t.
View this article online: http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2016/09/19/426906.htm
2 Mexican Physicians Sentenced in Texas for Fake Accident-Related Insurance Fraud
Prosecutors in South Texas say two doctors from a family medicine clinic in Mexico must serve nearly three-year U.S. prison terms for insurance-related fraud.
Dr. Mayolo Melchor and 61-year-old Dr. Bertha Hernandez-Melchor, of Reynosa, Mexico, were sentenced on Sept. 15 by a federal judge in McAllen.
Both physicians in June pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a nearly $2.6 million insurance claim scam. Each was sentenced to 34 months behind bars and must repay the money.
Investigators say the physicians conspired with policyholders of the American Family Life Insurance Co. to prepare and submit fraudulent claim forms and faked accident reports from 2001 to 2010.
Prosecutors say forms with bogus information were delivered to the family clinic in Mexico, then faxed to AFLAC headquarters in Georgia.