Posted on 07/25/2006 12:20:17 PM PDT by CareUh
"There are jobs that just simply aren’t getting done because Americans won’t do them." —President George W. Bush, Cleveland, Ohio, March 20, 2006 [1]
The twenty-first-century slave trade involves an organized effort to bring into the United States an underclass of uneducated, impoverished illegal immigrants who will work for below-market wages for companies that plan to commit employment tax fraud and violations of labor and immigration laws. No slave trader may actually go to Mexico or other Hispanic countries to capture workers and force them in chains to come to America to work in sub-standard conditions. Yet, we have termed this “under-market” in illegal alien workers the “twenty-first-century slave trade” because the practice of brokering workers into these jobs involves a determination to exploit them.
Servitude sets in when the workers come to live in the United States and find no alternative but to accept these under-market jobs. Often living in extended family units, the economic opportunity here may still be better than in their home countries. Still, by U.S. standards, the illegal immigrant laborer is being exploited; otherwise their employment market probably would not exist in the first place.
“Jobs Americans Won’t Do”
The argument that President Bush has advanced to justify his “guest worker” program is that there are jobs Americans won’t do. The problem is that the president’s core assumption is false. The job statistics show that there is no job an American won’t do. Moreover, there is no job classification in which foreign-born workers are the majority. Even in the low-paying, menial job categories, Americans still hold most of the jobs...
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Bush is such a liar.
American "Guest Worker" = Mexico Welfare System
Send them home...without pay.
Such a lovely sentiment. I guess the entire pro-illegal movement wishes to visit violence upon their opponents.
what did Gilchrist ever do to you?
He speaks truth to the pro-illegal movement.
That was my first thought. Oh well, any analogy in a storm, I suppose.
Liberals will not stop their idiotic misuse of analogy.
You know why there are jobs that "Americans won't do"? Because we're not allowed to. Go apply for one, as I have. You'll never get hired; they prefer the illegals, who can be exploited.
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