“Doing the jobs Americans don’t want”. BS. We have a huge homeless problem today exactly because there are too many illegal aliens taking the jobs they would otherwise be doing.
“Doing the jobs Americans don’t want”
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Yep.
I don’t know how many of these are H1-B, so I really shouldn’t be making assumptions, but it really shouldn’t be so easy and even rewarded for American companies to pay non-Americans. American citizens aren’t going to go to technical school or even STEM vocational programs to learn technical trades that aren’t there because it’s cheaper for corporations to pay non-Americans.
Granted, these probably aren’t all 6 figure jobs, but they aren’t toilet cleaning and ditch digging jobs either.
I’ve been around many kinds of employers - from farmers to chicken processors, to fast food/service industry. They all, without exception, are crying (and have been for decades) how they cannot get workers worth a crap - who will show up and work an honest day’s labor for an honest day’s pay. Even when raising their opening hourly pay + benefits. “Americans’ have, as a whole, become a lazy culture. Sure - there are still some hard-working folks. But there is a reason that your chicken in processed primarily by Hispanics. Even $25/hr and a $5000 starting bonus if you say for at least 4 weeks doesn’t keep “Americans” working there.
Why work? When you can stay home and claim any number of socialist welfare programs, federal, state, and local - and even non-profit? When you can panhandle on a busy street corner and make more than 50% of the population in the area. All you have to do is endure cold or rain (those are the highest-income days for most panhandlers).
This “huge homeless problem” is a product of several things - but mostly of the bad decision of drug abuse (#1 cause), and mental illness (the #2 cause - but greatly influenced and compounded by #1).
Have you seen the homeless?
They wouldn’t be working for $50 an hour.
The other illegals have been selling them Fentanyl.