Why blame me? I have absolutely zero say on who gets hired by any company in America for any job. I get by on SS only. Who companies hire and how much they pay employees are not influenced by me in any way. I have no influence on immigration laws. You hate against me is misplaced.
Hate? I'm upset with you for brushing aside my real life testimony about the hardships illegals have caused to working professionals such as myself, but I don't hate you. I just think you're woefully misinformed about this issue.
When I first entered the skilled building trades in the late 70s, they were dominated by American men. It was rare to see a latino of any sort on jobsites back in those days, let alone Mexican illegals.
Those jobs paid well, and were hard to come by. You had to know someone to get hired as an apprentice or a helper. Guys would practically kill for the opportunity to get their foot in the door.
And those Americans did every imaginable type of labor in those days, including "jobs Americans won't do". Why? Because those jobs paid well, and a guy could work his way up the ladder to become a skilled journeyman, which provided even better pay, and a sure path into the middle class.
That all changed, as illegals came in, offering to do the same work for half the pay. Within a decade, guys like me, who'd dedicated their lives to that career, found their wages steadily shrinking. Eventually, most American men were forced out, due to low wages.
Unfortunately, some of us had already been at it for so long, we couldn't quit. We had no other marketable skills to offer, and so we suffered. And suffered, and suffered some more.
If I told you all the details of what my wife and kids went through because of this, you'd be in tears. We went from being solidly middle class, to living in a shack, relying on charity within a few short years. It took us five long years of brutal determination to escape that poverty.
We're still a family business, and we're doing ok, but we now work twice as hard for half the pay we used to make.