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To: Sonora
Seasonal work; no benefits, no work some days, not pleasant if one has a family to support or even just rent to pay.

How can illegal aliens afford to do it?

susie

753 posted on 05/15/2006 9:40:14 AM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: brytlea

Several families to a house/apartment, not very pleasant either. Also, 'other' sub-standard living conditions. In addition, being alone here and from Mexico - you just make do with what you have outside of work.

I know, by the way, that posters here state that it's all about the per hour wages and that is true, for example in the construction industry, but there are a ton of jobs, especially crop work, really smelly critter killing and processing that practically no one will do. Mexicans will do those jobs. We should get real on this point. When is the last time you saw a bunch of white or black people out in a field picking strawberries? Would you if the pay was, for example, doubled? I don't think so. Also, would anyone buy the strawberries if the price was doubled? I'm thinking a lot fewer than now.


821 posted on 05/15/2006 11:30:07 AM PDT by Sonora
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