[Types_with_Fist]

The Mexicans are only here to do the work your husband won't do.

[ladyjane]

Masons, carpenters, roofers, painters...all getting screwed.

Thank you George Bush.

[cripplecreek]

I'm on your side but let me be the first to say.....

THEY TUHK R JAHBS!!!!

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

You must fill your heart with love! "Our Diversity Is Our Strength!" Life in the "Big Tent!" There is lots of "Room at the Table!"(Just not for you and yours.)

[SamAdams76]

Well, just have your brickmason husband start his own brickmason firm and hire only Americans. Be part of the solution.

[Dante3]

Not only are they taking jobs, but a large segment is here to commit horrific crimes and live off our welfare. Illegal aliens actually get a variety of perks not available to us taxpayers.

[SomeoneNeedsToSayIt]

They are NOT YOUR JOBS!

You DON'T have the right to a job!

You have the right to offer your services at whatever price you choose. If your price is too high the organization offering the opportunity will choose someone else. You need to become competitive with the market or find something else to do.

[38special]

Guess what? They're going to raise your property taxes to educate their children and pay for their healthcare.

[Beagle8U]

You might like the views of Duncan Hunter on that issue.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1780767/posts

http://www.ontheissues.org/CA/Duncan_Hunter.htm

[unkus]

Go to a job site and yell "La Migra, La Migra" and watch them run. Seriously, call Immigtation or the owner.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

The battle of San Jacinto took 800 men only 13 minutes.

[Porterville]

Der takin me jabss!!! Derka derka!!! Derka takin mi jabsssss.

Man skilled labor is easy. Become a foreman if you can't hack the tough stuff. Learn to be social.

[Brilliant]

Both Pelosi and Bush agree: Mexicans can do your job better than you can.

[McLynnan]

Here in Texas you can't find an English speaking framer, roofer, yardman, etc. Some days I feel fortunate if I can find groceries without Spanish/English labels. I'm sorry for your husband. I guess we aren't protesting loudly enough for our government to hear us.

[Clemenza]

Yawn!

Populism: Socialism for backwoods morons.

[KoRn]

I'm in SW VA and eventhough when I venture out to shop on weekends wondering what country I'm in, I'm not as distressed about Mexicans taking jobs as I am the jobs leaving all together. Of course I live in a very rural area that's lost around 10,000 jobs in the last decade. People around here used to be worried about Mexicans taking jobs when there were jobs here to take. Now most folks are pissed because the Mexican ladies always seem to get in line first for welfare, and they create long lines at the grocery stores during the first of the month while their Mexican boyfriends are out working on farms tax free. Of course the Mexicans that aren't working on farms are either selling meth, breaking into houses, or working for one of the Latino criminal gangs that have been popping up around here.

[Clemenza]

BTW: I feel for your husband. Deport all illegals NOW!

However, if a factory can't produce things efficiently, let it close! There is a reason industrial employment is down WORLDWIDE, even in China.

[Pox]

One thing I've certainly noticed with the flood of cheap illegal immigrant labor is the piss poor quality of the work they are doing. The contractors sure aren't passing along their savings, and the product being sold is pathetically substandard.

However, there are those here on FR who will defend their supposed constitutional right to cheap labor. It's an issue that has it's root in greed, IMO.

[Argus]

I was amazed the other day to see a crew building a cinderblock wall a few streets away and all of them appeared to be native born Anglo-Americans.

[RegulatorCountry]

My late uncle was from a long line of brick masons, and he did fantastic work, even historic restorations. I watched him do the masonry on an addition to my parents' house when I was a child, and the care he took ... breaking down every pallet of bricks to sort for an even color mix, carefully mixing the mortar so it would always match and not leach lime, how he could precisely break a brick in half with his trowel when he needed half a brick ... just amazing. That's why I can't stand to look at what passes for brick work these days, done primarily by Mexican workers, because I know how it's supposed to be done and how it's supposed to look. The "runs" of color from mismatched lots, the lime leaching out, the sloppy mortar; all I can say is, there are going to be a lot of houses down the road with serious masonry failures.

I don't know what the answer is for your husband. If he's willing to expand his market and travel a bit, it may be that there are enough people who don't want inferior work or illegals doing it, to bring his business back around.