Who will do the work in North County, pack the beef in Omaha, cut tobacco in Kentucky and pluck the chickens in North Carolina? Ummm...Americans getting marginally higher pay than they are now? Ooooh, can't have that, now, can we?
It amazes me that a country that spent the last year bellyaching about it's high unemployment could possibly have any jobs left for Mexicans to come in and take.
I predict a host of labor saving devices invented and patented by Americans.
There are two poultry processing plants here in my town-a Tyson's and a Honeysuckle White. In the 1980s, kids who didn't want to go to college went there after graduation, and got reasonably decent pay and benefits. Starting in the early 1990s, local black and white workers were forced out of the plants by a variety of means, including physical assaults commited by the 'imported' labor (possibly at the behest of the managers, who at the very least turned a blind eye). Today the workforce there is nearly all "Hispanic", which in this case means illegal . The displaced workers have moved on or are trying to survive on Walmart/fast food/service jobs.
Who will do the work in North County, pack the beef in Omaha, cut tobacco in Kentucky and pluck the chickens in North Carolina?
That kind of nonsense makes me homicidal. The workers weren't "too proud or lazy" to do those jobs, they were thrown out like garbage. Any person who says "they only take the jobs Americans don't want" is a liar, and s/he KNOWS it's a lie. When translated , it really means,"anyone who does that kind of work is an illiterate trailer trash redneck, I hate people like that and it makes me happy to see them suffer."