[Glacier Honey]

Here in Colorado they are already telling stories in the local news about deserving kids who have worked their way through high school and have started small business. They way they spin it can bring a tear to your eye. The poor illegals who only want a better life. Also there was a story about 18 illegals living in an apartment (one bedroom) in NYC working as bus boys saving and sending money back home to start their own business. These two cousins stated how they wanted to return home to their families and start their own business. They each saved over 30,000 in 4 or 5 years. It pulls at the heart strings of those who are to have no clue to what will happen to America if the borders open up. Neither article pointed out that this was all tax free money they stole and the free health care that we tax payers paid for when they were sick and ended up in the general hospitals

[angkor]

These two cousins stated how they wanted to return home to their families and start their own business. They each saved over 30,000 in 4 or 5 years.

That's been the program for a long time. Work cheap, evade taxes, and send it back to Mexico where the cost of (rural) living is 1/5th that of the U.S. and one can buy a little business or 2 bedroom hom WITH TOILET for less than 30K.

I heard Camarata (sp?) from CIS on the radio yesterday and he made a good point.

Seems that he and I are about the same age, and he held many of the jobs that I did through high school and college (dishwasher, landscaping, construction, etc). The jobs that illegals have today.

His pay rate analysis was spot-on: from 1975 to about 1980 construction laborers were paid about $8/hr (as I was). Just on an adjusted $$$ basis, laborers should be making $18/hr so today, but in fact illegals are making $10 to $14/hr, which is about 1/2 to 3/4 the labor rate of the late-1970's. Camarata said this is true across the board, in every single job category crowded with illegal aliens.

To me that explains why the whining contractor says "But illegals are the only people I can get, American kids and unskilled don't want to work anymore", and Camarata's reply, (paraphrased) "Because you're underpaying and getting lower quality American applicants. If you paid $18/hr - which is the proper pay scale - you'd get better American applicants."

By the way, the unemployment rate among high school and college kids, as well as the unskilled, low-skilled, and lesser educated native Americans, is huge. Camarata said something like 10 million and 30 million respectively.