Posted on 12/31/2015 7:57:10 AM PST by free_life
MOULTRIE, Georgia - "All you black American people, *uck you all ... just go to the office and pick up your check," the supervisor at Hamilton Growers told workers during a mass layoff in June 2009.
The following season, according to a lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, about 80 workers, many of them black, were simply told: "All you Americans are fired."
Year after year, Hamilton Growers, which has supplied squash, cucumbers, and other produce to Wal-Mart and the Green Giant brand, hired scores of Americans, only to cast off many of them within weeks, according to the U.S. government. And time after time, the grower filled the jobs with foreign guest workers instead.
"We want to go to work and work all day," said Derrick Green, 32, a father of six who said he was fired by Hamilton Growers in 2012 after only three weeks picking squash. "But they don't want that."
Last year, thousands of American companies won permission to bring a total of more than 150,000 people into the country as legal guest workers for unskilled jobs, under a federal program that grants them temporary work permits known as H-2 visas. Officially, the guest workers were invited here to fill positions no Americans want: The program is not supposed to deprive any American of a job, and before a company wins approval for a single H-2 visa, it must attest that it has already made every effort to hire domestically. Many companies abide by the law and make good-faith efforts to employ Americans.
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A previous BuzzFeed News report found that many of those foreign workers suffer a nightmare of abuse, deprived of their fair pay, imprisoned, starved, beaten, sexually assaulted, or threatened with deportation if they dare complain.
At the same time, companies across the country in a variety of industries have made it all but impossible for U.S. workers to learn about job openings that they are supposed to be given first crack at. When workers do find out, they are discouraged from applying. And if, against all odds, Americans actually get hired, they often are treated worse and paid less than foreign workers doing the same job, in order to drive the Americans to quit.
Sometimes, as the government alleged happened at Hamilton Growers, employers comply with regulations by hiring Americans only to fire them en masse and hand over the work to foreign workers with H-2 visas.
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Obama the Dems and the GOPee along with all candidates running for 2016 except Trump are part of this yuge problem is costing Americans jobs and Americans with jobs their tax money going to support Americans that could have jobs.
HB1 and HB2 are being abused by the cheap-labor express and the bought and paid for congress and President.
As the nation prepares to ring in the New Year, President Barack Obama is preparing a colossal new executive action that could print-up work permits for a huge number of foreign white-collar graduates every year, above and beyond the levels set by Congress.
This executive action, which directly bypasses Congressional lawmakers, is likely to reverberate across the presidential race, as GOP voters look to choose a nominee they believe will most effectively roll back the President’s still-expanding agenda. And it will certainly raise new security concerns as it covers categories of immigration utilized by migrants from the Middle East and nearby regions.
President Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security plans to publish the proposed rule tomorrow, the last day of 2015.
The 181-page rule focuses primarily on giving work-permits to foreign college-grads who will compete against Americans for white collar jobs, despite the large number of American graduates now stuck in lower-wage positions and struggling to pay off college debts. The rule will also make each foreign graduate much cheaper for U.S. employers to hire than many U.S.-born college grads.
“Obama has gone the Full Monty to bust the immigration system,” says immigration lawyer John Miano. “What is going on is he is effectively giving Green Cards to people on H-1B visas who are unable to get Green Cards due to the [annual] quotas ... it could be over 100,000.”
The American people took their way of life and prosperity for granted. They did not realize how much of an historical anomaly it was, and how fragile it was.
Now it is being exchanged for a welfare check and “Dancing with the Stars.” Some are foolishly making the exchange willingly, some are having it forced upon them. But the exchange is being made whether they like it or not.
Congress could stop him, if they wanted to. But then they just increased H1b visas didn’t they.
I remember Americans flocking to a meat-packing plant after the alien invaders were rounded up; one told a reporter, who asked whether or not these were the jobs “Americans don’t want”, that many of them were the Americans laid off by the same plant so they could hire the Mexicans.
GOPe bump for later....
You are right; we took a lot of things for granted (most dangerously, that our government represented our interests). Now that we have the same instability as the rest of the world, don’t expect many Americans to breed; most have sworn it off altogether. We are 1960s Europe now...
Meat packing is a dirty, nasty job, but it used to pay relatively high wages. With the influx of illegal labor and lax enforcement those wages have dropped precipitously.’
"For several years, Abrorkhodja Askarkhodjaev ran a temp firm based in Kansas City that relied on H-2 guest workers... "Foreign people will clean two rooms in one hour. The American will not even finish in one hour one room," he said speaking from the federal prison where he is serving a 12-year term for crimes related to visa fraud."
Exactly! I’ve seen photos of department stores that advertised saying they needed, say, 300 employees, and thousands of applicants were lined up around the block. “Jobs Americans won’t do” is a crock. How did those jobs get done before tens of millions of foreigners were brought in?
Sure; like everything else from harvesting to shoveling pigsh!t, Americans used to do all of these jobs until employers and governments conspired to skirt laws to import more foreigners (to undercut the wages).
That is exactly how it played out when Wal-Mart came to my town; thousands of American applicants for a few hundred jobs. ObamaCare is forcing many to settle for any work that includes health coverage (to avoid penalties); white Americans without the requisite welfare bastards are being forced off their couches.
Americans always worked in retail, as bank tellers, construction workers, etc. - until companies no longer wanted them.
All your job are belong to us.
what, what the @#$@#$ is a job ameicans don’t want?!?!
you advertise far and wide enough you will ALWAYS get a position filled.
This is one of the biggest lies perpetrated upon the American people.
I KNOW a bunch of teenagers who would do ANY LEGAL job if they got the chance. And they ARE working at hard jobs, you know, the ones they don’t want.
My son and his wife are seriously discussing not having children. They don’t know if they can justify bringing children into a world they see as turning to crap. That’s a conversation I never had with my parents.
I’m pretty sure they will have children, but only one or two. My guess is within the next three years.
Thirty years ago (when I was a teen) my boss would say the same thing; he ended up having one. The fact is that children have the potential to make this a better place, while those who don’t want them then bemoan the influx of foreigners jabbering in strange tongues imported to replace the lost generations of Americans.
There may be valid reasons to avoid reproducing, but that is the weakest. They’ve opted to become Tolkien’s elves, departing this world forever.
Obama’s riding the cheap-labor express into the dust bin of history... He’s been a jerk on this issue.
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