The "Spanish speakers" were willing to live in terrible conditions while at work building new homes. The experience led Barbour -- who favors raising the number of high-skilled immigrants admitted to the United States -- to realize that "there is also essential lesser-skilled labor that we need."
Yes, third world people are grateful for jobs... Why stop with trades people? Let's bring in a few hundred thousand to compete with our politicians and 'journalists'. Most of 'em will work for very little and be extremely grateful. People from India can write 'news copy' for $12.00 an hour and never complain. Government workers can be replaced too - again folks from India and the Philippines will be joyful to have a chance to earn ten bucks an hour and we won't a have to pay benefits. Is that the 'new' American way? Slavery-lite?
Even people like Haley and his friends can have people competing with them - willing to work for slave wages. How would fat old Haley like that? You can take someone like Haley Barbour out of the Jim Crow south, but it's hard to take Jim Crow thinking out of Haley Barbour types. What a jerk... he might as well be a Democrat. Haley we're NOT going to allow you and your friends to force us to compete with the third world while also being forced to pay for 'job training' for people who have been taught to be dependent.
Ay-yup.
Uncle Tom...Tio Tomas...he don't care as long as they fetch that drink for him.