I have no doubt that they are all here legally. My point was to the fact that they are here because American young folks CAN NOT BE FOUND who will do the kind of work they are doing. Some say that if these places paid a living wage, they would have plenty of help. For crying out loud, these are pretty much temporary summertime jobs that every college kid and many high school kids used to be happy to get not so many years ago. What are those kids doing now? That’s what I’d like to know. Are they so rich they don’t need to lower themselves to this kind of work? Have they jumped right over entry level to middle management? Or maybe in the past 35 years, we aborted all of our people who might be doing that work?
There’s going to come a day of reckoning in the not-too-distant future and it ain’t gonna be pretty. Some people are going to get a wake up call that they will not be able to answer.
That is correct. But there is also legislation that is presently hung up in Congress on the temporary/seasonal worker covered by the H2B visa quota. Most likely these Russian kids that PYA is talking about are here on that temp visa.
The quota on the H2B was temporarily raised in 2005 and has been renewed each year since, until this year.
Like SAVE, it is stuck in committee and a discharge petition has been created but doesn't have enough signatures. It is being blocked by a coalition of two groups.The first group are democrats who are retaliating because there was no comprehensive reform passed and the second group are GOP immigration hardliners such as Tancredo who are opposed to guest workers.