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Exactly. There were lots of other kids besides just me who were happy to do low-skilled labor to provide us with the chance to better ourselves. That's still true today. A lot of the people on this forum have been middle or upper class for a couple of generations. They think all Americans just go from high school straight to college, with Daddy and Mommy footing the bill. That's not reality, though.

Also, what about those people who aren't college material? There are plenty of people who can work with their hands but aren't cut out for college. This proposal will make it much, much harder for them to find jobs, because businesses will now be able to take advantage of this "rent-a-slave" proposal instead of hiring Americans. It will be easy to get around the "hire Americans first" provision - just ask the corporations abusing the high-tech visa programs right now. Sheesh! My blood pressure...

A lot of the people on this forum have been middle or upper class for a couple of generations. They think all Americans just go from high school straight to college, with Daddy and Mommy footing the bill. That's not reality, though.

That might be true. A lot of them never got to do farm work such as picking fruit when they were in high school ---- which many of us did --- along with plenty of other whites. I used to see families of Southerners as migrant workers coming to work the seasonal jobs up north --- and to see them out shopping, you'd never guess they were farmworkers --- they just looked like regular middle class so unless you actually did some of those jobs, you might not realize how many Americans are actually doing them.