Take a young unemployed excon who can’t read or write, but is in good health. How much is he worth?
Take my unemployed young healthy ex-room-mate. Never committed a crime. Read the Bible every day, Great personality, stayed out late with girlfriends every night, couldn’t get up to go work work.
These are just two of many examples of people who rejected construction that started at 15/hr for the illegals. Some of those illegals quickly got raises. In 2 years they were making 25/hr. Then they started their own companies.
As my ex-room-mate told me: I dont do spic work.
You are grossly mis-informed if you dont realize the upward mobility of immigrants. Yes, food service workers do start low. But they dont see it as starting low. It is twice what they were making in the old country. And look how many of them now own their own restaurant.
Dont get me wrong. Problems exist.
I’ve owned my business for 18 years, and have employed a lot of people in that time. Every single one of them was an American citizen and they all made good to great wages. Not once, was I ever forced to resort to hiring illegals because I couldn’t find a qualified, eager American to fill the slot.
But times have changed. It’s now much harder for me to find qualified, eager Americans because illegals in the workforce have driven the average wages for labor down to a point where Americans who play by the rules can not afford to work those jobs.
You appear to be advocating for the illegals by blaming your fellow Americans for being too lazy to do the work. Nothing could be further from the truth. Construction once paid so well, that American men fought over those jobs. My family’s been in the building trades for nearly a century, so I know what I’m talking about.
There are plenty of Americans who would be more than happy to dedicate themselves to a career in the industry if wages were once again attractive. In addition, a lot of American men would go on to start their own businesses in the trades, if they could see a good future in it for them and their families.
Unfortunately, the illegal foreign invasion has stolen that all away from the rightful owners.