[Old Professer]

The only true equality is when everyone has nothing.

[garyhope]

I wonder if any of those "poor, unemployed, "victims" of hurricane Katrina" would like to have a job doing some good honest work?........Nah,..why bother. The money and benefits are too good on welfare.

[dagnabbit]

Before the Clinton-Bush open border system, life was indeed hell in the USA. Thank goodness those two brilliant honest men remedied that horror.

[GregoTX]

"What Did We Ever Do Without Illegal Aliens?"

I mowed my own lawn.

[Drew68]

More than once, I was paid actual cash money to clean up construction debris -- at work sites where every worker was an American.

One summer while I was in college many years ago I took a job working construction as a framer. I had no prior experience doing this sort of work and as such I was pretty much relegated to the more labor intensive position of hauling wood.

I was paid $10/hour for my efforts and at the time it was the most money I've ever earned. The more experienced framers earned much more and everyone was an American citizen and spoke English. This was about 12 years ago.

I'd be willing to bet that today's experienced (albeit illegal) Mexican framers make about 1/2 of what I was paid. Funny thing, it doesn't appear that houses are much cheaper despite the fact that laborers are being paid a lot less. How'd that happen?

[Hushpuppie]

Ping

[Choose Ye This Day]

Me gusta mucho.

[luvbach1]

Yes, and the words "busboy" and "dishwasher" had not yet been invented.

[ElkGroveDan]

Ah yes, the jobs American won't do, like cleaning toilets and back breaking lettuce picking. So we are told that we need to give them work permits.

Here's my question. Once they have permits to work in this country legally where will they go to work? Does anyone really believe that they will continue to clean toilets and pick lettuce? Or will they maybe head on down to the nearest air conditioned warehouse to move boxes? Of course they will.

Meanwhile the demand for the other jobs will cause some new wave of illegals to flood the country, boatloads from China or Bangladesh.

I have a solution to the illegal alien problems but I'd get flamed here.

[RTINSC]

Back in time, what most kids wanted most of all was a paper route, so he could earn some money. Today, what a kid wants most is a computer or an XBOX.

[NicknamedBob]

I can't tell you how many times I lost siblings in the overgrown yard.

Thank goodness they could still hear me when I called the "Olly, olly, oxen free!"

[DTogo]

Excellent Article!

[TankerKC]

The dirty little secret is that they have always been around. I remember my little farming town in SE Colorado being over run each summer in the 70's.

Mexican Immigrant Labor History

[Black Tooth]

Before illegal aliens, and the big flood of millions in the past 20 years or so, America was a weak, poor country, where the past generations were incapable and incompetent and had no work ethic. Now with millions of illegals, and millions more entering, we are a great, strong nation.

[dennisw]

I don't want or need an imported class of serfs but it seems the upper middle class and the rich are addicted to their cheap labor and subservient attitude. Democrats liberals and conservatives want their imported serfs.

[lilylangtree]

"told are absolutely essential to our “modern” globalized economy"

Bullsh*t!

[Clock King]

This is what I found so hilarious (and sad) about that complete imbecilic movie, A Day Without A Mexican. People are shown having to (gasp!) wash their own clothes, mow their own lawns, take care of their own kids! Oh, the horror! DUH?? Hollyweird is so disconnected from reality, it is amazing that they know how to eat food. The vast majority of people do these mundane tasks everyday.

[TomasUSMC]

OUTSTANDING

[ThePythonicCow]

These entry level jobs have been made illegal - by the minimum wage. The minimum wage, compounded by various mandatory payroll withholdings and liability insurance, makes paying entry level wages illegal.

When low wages are outlawed, only outlaws will have low wages

Nowadays, such "outlaws" are more commonly referred to as illegal aliens or undocumented workers, depending on your view of them.

[daybreakcoming]

Love this and thanks for posting it. But you know??? I was a Human Resource Mgr for many years serving the petro/chem. I hired everything from chemists, supervisors, craftsmen, to laborers.
Around 89-90, I began to notice young whites did not want entry level labor jobs @ $8/hr. But African-Americans did. A couple years later they didn't want it either. It became harder to find a laborer than a chemist. Both the whites and the blacks wanted craftsman helper jobs with no experience whatsoever in a petro-chem plant. We offered them school assistance to learn a craft but few were interested in that. NOTE: The Mexicans force had not become a factor at that time.