Posted on 07/20/2023 8:18:57 AM PDT by River Hawk
In Florida, a new law cracking down on the employment of illegal aliens went into effect on July 1.
A recent article by Axel Turcios for Scripps News tries to scare the reader into thinking this is a Bad Thing.
“The law is causing outrage and fear among some in the state,” Turcios tells us.
Lawbreakers experience “outrage and fear” when the law is being enforced. That’s a good thing.
If you aren’t an illegal alien or dependent on illegal labor, why be outraged and afraid?
If illegal workers are leaving the state, the law is working.
As for the “labor shortage," that’s good for American workers.
There’s still a workforce in Florida. It’s composed of American citizens and legal immigrants.
Immigration labor law is being enforced in Florida. That’s good for Florida, good for America.
(Excerpt) Read more at borderhawk.blog ...
Because what the media ‘thinks’ matters. /s
Quit posting your blog in the news forum. Post in bloggers only.
I hope Texas has such a law in the pipeline ...
I wish all states would adopt this law.
Why? It’s still news.
“Why? It’s still news.”
On the source page: “Opinion”
Me too. I’m seeing a lot of groups of construction workers who came here to seek “asylum” as “refugees”. No families. No fruit pickers. Just construction workers loading up on beer every night after work at Walmart.
DeSantis is the devil according to many on FR.
I see undocumented Hispanics all the time in my job. Most are good hard working family people. Having said that, illegal is illegal, and they are taking jobs from American citizens and lowering wages. And, there just seems to be something wrong with them sending their wages to another country instead of spending it here. But whatever.
If Florida can do without them then so can Alabama. Let the chips fall where they may. Go Home!
They need to do the same in Alabama.
I’m a Trump guy for my own reasons but DeSantis remains the best Governor in the country by far. DeSantis would be light years better as President than ANY Democrat and that includes RFK.
New law
What were they waiting for the last 3 years.
The day DeSantis’ law about hiring illegals took effect my buddy’s sone arrived on his job site to the sounds of silence. Of the 60 framers there were three. A week later the site was back up and working normally. But instead of hearing only Spanish he heard only English. So, apparently, there are Americans who want the jobs.
Thanks, that’s a great anecdote. That should be in these articles, not the weep-for-foreign-lawbreakers propaganda.
I used to work in that industry. And all the fat mamas of those ‘’hard working’’ illegal aliens are sucking on the welfare tit and you and I are paying for it.
I firmly believe that the problem is at least two-fold:
1) Welfare payments are far too much - it dis-incentivizes folks to seek work,
2) In some cases the workers are not within a reasonable proximity to the job. Travel and possibly child care expenses are more than the take home pay.
3) others ...
However the bottom line is that there are no jobs that Americans will not do if they are hungry enough.
My father was born in 1916. After he got home from the war he and my mother moved to Florida as there were lots of jobs here. There was no air conditioning, and the accommodations were infested with cockroaches. They had two children. The point is, they moved to where the jobs were. My dad’s job was to provide for the family. He therefore took lots of jobs that were a several hour drive away. He’d stay with other workers during the week and come home every other weekend. My recollection was he slept most of the time he was home.
My point is, the idea that a man provides and the idea that he’ll go wherever the jobs are, is no longer present in today’s society. Even I moved several times over my career so I could take jobs.
While I was getting my MBA online a class discussion in an economics class went something like this. A woman living in Nowhere N. Bumfluck Nebraska took the only job available which was at a Walmart. She was upset that they wouldn’t pay her for her advanced degree. (I have no idea what the degree was in, but I suspect something along the lines of Gender Studies.) I said, no, Walmart had a job requiring X skills and she agreed to take the job at the offered pay. If she wanted a job that required and paid for skills earned while getting her degree, she’d have to move to somewhere that needed that job. You’d think I’d have just committed war crimes. The entire class landed on me. The professor called me and said if I didn’t clamp down on my rightwing rhetoric, he’d evict me from the class. I took the entire exchange and had my many work associates review it to see if I had indeed said something political. Everyone agreed there was no politics involved. My arguments were entirely economic. But that exchange is where our present society is at the moment, in a microcosm.
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