I live in Arizona.
A few months ago there was a big carwash chain called Danny’s carwash that was raided by the Feds. Danny’s was exclusively Hispanic employees and illegal Hispanincs.
After the raid, I took my car to be washed and the staff was all black.
I was shocked because I realized that black people will take any kind of work when they can get it and this dispels stereotypes about black people. The point here is that people want that wall built so that legal Americans can get work.
Arizona is also a strict E-Verify state. There is another place called Sprouts where the staff in back of the counter was also 95% Hispanic. Then the state strictly enforced E-Verify and the staff s now mainly white and at least 50% senior.
Again this told me that Americans will take any kind of work they can get when they can get it.
Again I bet that Americans want that wall built so that they don’t keep getting screwed and will fill any kind of opportunity presented to them. This myth that we need to let in the illegals because they are doing work no one else wants is total bs.
Great observations.
I noticed the same thing, here in TX, for a few months about a year ago.
Now, it seems like we’re back to the primarily hispanic car wash and Whole Foods (behind scene, etc.) employees.
“There is another place called Sprouts where the staff in back of the counter was also 95% Hispanic.”
The Sprouts stores here in SoCal do exactly the same thing. And I mean they are illegals. After 50 years in SoCal it’s not hard to know the difference.
Maybe it’s Sprout’s company policy to hire illegals unless the stores are prosecuted and forced to obey the law. I don’t remember them doing this when the stores were owned by a different management group and were called Henry’s Market.
Go to any local Wal-Mart and the employees are poor whites, blacks, and a few legal immigrants.
However, go to any local restaurant (with exception of Thai, Indian, and Chinese) and the employees are almost all illegals from south of the border.
EXACTLY! Thank for the anecdotes. I’m in So Cal and dream of those things happening here. All of the jobs my friends and I had as teens, all of the jobs that get you stated in the workforce or that you can fall back on if things get really tough.
“Again this told me that Americans will take any kind of work they can get when they can get it.”
After one of the few ICE raids under Bush, a meat-packing plant in Kansas has trouble getting employees for $12/hr. When they hired illegals, the pay dropped from $15 to $12. After the plant raised wages to $15, they were inundated with applications.
“Again I bet that Americans want that wall built so that they don’t keep getting screwed and will fill any kind of opportunity presented to them. This myth that we need to let in the illegals because they are doing work no one else wants is total bs.”
I have argued this with my husband until I’m blue in the face. Most Americans will take any job available to put food on the table and pay the mortgage.