Posted on 06/12/2025 9:13:12 AM PDT by hardspunned
Pay is not the only issue. There is also how much day to day expenses cost when compared to wages. Let alone major purchases.
Trump remains his own worst enemyOnly in your and hardspunned demented minds
The presence of 30 million illegals in the country puts downward pressure on wages, upward pressure on housing, and makes it difficult for people to find work and housing they can afford. These 30 million (12 million under Biden added to the 20 million already here) are on top of the million legal immigrants entering the country each year. Who decides that a million legal immigrants is the right number? Who decides we need another several million a year of illegals? When were Americans ever consulted on any of this?
They were not.
Crops? LOL!
Did you ever notice there is not a vegetable field in sight in the LA area, yet there are *millions* of illegal aliens there?
The wages were too low. The law of supply and demand. Learn it.
Welfare isn’t allowed for new residents, to my knowledge
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It is allowed for every child they have born in the US.
The benefit is prorated. An ineligible parent with six children would be given six sevenths of the amount an eligible parent with six children would. This is how it is for food stamps and for cash assistance.
Yep, they’re here for the bennies. Take those away and they will stop coming.
Then go out of business.
How hard could those jobs be?
Adapt or Die!
That’s right!
If a business owner can’t hire legitimate Americans and pay a reasonable wage, they have no business being in business!
“Amnesty for the law abiding workers in hospitality, farming and landscaping?”
Pay your way and stay at most - no Medicaid, no SNAP, no tax credits, no housing vouchers for you or your live-in relatives.
US employers would have to pay for health insurance coverage for the invader and their offspring, including the Mexican Social Security Institute premiums for the niños back home in Mexico.
Did you misquote the President on purpose ?It's what Jasmine hardspunned Crocket does best.
BS... I travel a lot. Last year, the entire staff would be Hispanic. Now they are all white and black.
Sounds like amnesty is brewing
Maybe off topic. But could the fact that banks so willingly extend credit including to illegals work to keep the cost of goods high and wages low because now it is assumed if you can’t pay cash just charge it? So the idea is credit is used to fill in the gap between wages and purchases.
I think an economy based on credit is less of an incentive for employers to pay better wages and merchants to keep cost in range with those wages. I could be way off,but it is something I’ve been pondering.
Need to get the high-schoolers back to work.
So these were very good workers, but they couldn’t even bother to get legal?
Mexicans were always known as a lazy, “manana” people, a peasant people, the very people who are responsible for Mexico being Mexico and looking like it does and remaining somewhere between the 1800s and the 1930s (contrast it with our other border nation, Canada).
Many Americans see Mexicans being willing to work outdoors and sweat as being hard workers, they don’t remember the higher quality workers that used to do it, just as Californians don’t remember that if they had a foreign born gardener, it used to be a magnificent Japanese gardener who brought expertise and intelligence to his work, he wasn’t just a laborer with no special knowledge who was willing to buy a lawnmower and a rake.
Same with working sugar cane.
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