[raybbr]

"You can't get high school kids to earn $14-16 to dig ditches and carry bricks and do the hard work.

High school kids never did this for full time work anyway. That was for uneducated, low skilled labor. Just what he's advocating. Let's bring in more uneducated people to build our houses and when the houses are built they get to go on welfare because they can't do anything else.

Importing Poverty: Immigration and Poverty in the United States: A Book of Charts

[wastedyears]

I'd rather do that than work 1/3 of a work day in an office.

[brytlea]

How come so few people seem to understand this little fact?
susie

[Menehune56]

Thank you for the link to a most informative article backed up with excellent data. I was struck by its conclusion:

''Current legislative proposals that would grant amnesty to illegal immigrants and increase future low-skill immigration would represent the largest expansion of the welfare state in 30 years.

Obviously what the liberal left, aided and abetted by the corporate right, are intending!

[dalereed]

"High school kids never did this for full time work anyway."

I started doing construction work when I was 14, am a college graduate, and ran the construction business for 22 years that my father started and had to shut down because I couldnt compete whith criminal competition hiring illegals.

I'm still doing construction work today 55 years later but with a standard of living that is 1/3 of what it was 15 years ago.