We do NOT need these people to "sustain our economy" or "to dojobsamericanswontdo." Same old propaganda talking points blahblahblah...
"Many of the Chinese who arrived in the garment factories in the mid-1960s have already worked their way in the managerial and entrepreneurial classes. "There are 500 to 600 Chinese-owned garment companies in New York," notes Chisti. "In 1960, there were just five. They employ 30,000 workers." Their payroll is more than $200 million.
" Anti-immigrant activists would retort, no doubt, that most of those 30,000 jobs go to other immigrants rather than Americans. That's undoubtedly true. But many jobs generated by the garment industry are held by native-born Americans. Packagers, truckers, mid-level managers, and wholesale workers are mostly natives. So are people in countless other jobs that were created by the garment industry, from the assembly-line workers in the plants where sewing machines are built to the pink-collar staffs of the designers who cluster near the garment factories.
" A 1985 Urban Institute study of the garment industry in Los Angeles, the country's second-biggest, concluded that without Mexican immigrants, the city would have lost 50,000 production jobs, 12,000 management jobs, and 25,000 incidental jobs.
I, too, am sick and tired of hearing about the jobs that Americans won't do. My teenaged son cannot get a job around here because the foreigners who have taken over the businesses that hire teenagers DO NOT hire Americans. Native Americans need not apply, whether they are White or Black. I don't remember the government asking me my opinion when they opened the floodgates.