How would labor organizations benefit from supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants?
Answer:
Prior to 1965 when the disastrous Immigration Bill was passed, there was very little immigration. In fact, between 1925 and 1965, there was even a period of net emigration out of the United States. During this time, our grass was getting cut, our meat was being packed, our children were being watched and our houses were being cleaned. The idea that somehow we suddenly can't run a country without an unlimited supply of foreigners is absurd.
Those in favor of foreign labor are corporations who are addicted to cheap labor. They are the ones who are benefiting. But their benefit comes at the American tax payer's expense when you consider that the American tax payer is virtually subsidizing the labor costs of the greedy corporations by supplying the illegal foreign workers and their families with welfare, free education, free medical, WICs, housing assistance, etc. -- something the corporations won't do.
Americans won't allow themselves to be exploited like illegals do, but they WILL do the work that illegals do for fair compensation and benefits. If Americans did the work that illegals do at higher pay, would that benefit the consumer? You bet it would in the long run. But many Americans who do not care about America's future are consumers who favor the idea of exploiting illegal workers because it keeps commodity and service prices down in the short term.
Just by being counted in the census, illegals give political power to special groups. Many illegals fraudulently vote anyway and there is strong evidence that some key elections have been upset by illegal voters. Politicians represent the "people" even if those people are illegal aliens. Since the number of representatives in congress is fixed, any increase in population in California, for example, due to illegal immigration will require more representation for that group while taking away representation from people in other states. Most politicians that represent areas of large illegal population, vote in the interest of illegal aliens since they are the ones they represent.
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Carpenters’ Union Courts Immigrants to Increase Clout
Miriam Jordan
The Wall Street Journal, 16 December 2005
DENVER -- Over the past three decades, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners has seen its share of interior construction jobs in Colorado plunge to just 10% from 70%. That decline has prompted union leaders to reach out to workers once shunned as the enemy: illegal immigrants.
At a carpenters' union hall here one recent evening, union organizer Ernesto Belo found himself facing resistance from some veteran carpenters, who questioned the wisdom of embracing workers long willing to settle for lower wages. Mr. Belo grew angry with the skeptics.
"These are the guys working," he shouted. "Your average white kid isn't coming into construction. We need the immigrant workers. Accept that -- or the union dies."
The union movement has been in decline for decades as employers, facing foreign competition and pressure to reduce costs, turn to cheaper nonunion workers. In Denver, Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix, Kansas City, Mo., and other cities across the U.S., leaders of construction and service-sector unions are reaching out to immigrants to try to bolster their sagging memberships and clout. The carpenters' union, for one, is determined to attract more members, regardless of their immigration status.
"If you want to grow, you have to represent the people who are doing the work," says Jim Gleason, the carpenters' labor boss spearheading the campaign in Colorado, where he estimates that two-thirds of all construction workers are immigrants, more than half of them undocumented....
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