I am an undocumented Immigrant AKA illegal Alien. Why do I have to do jobs U.S Citizens are unskilled to do?
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You do not have to do any jobs in America so you are free to go home now. Thank you.
And you are being held hostage here, perhaps?
Last time I checked , there were no schools teaching toilet maintenance.
You work for cheap wages, it has nothing to do with skill, training or education just pure greed.. If your proud of the fact that your being used for your price tag and to drive down American wages then more power to you but never forget or confuse the fact that you are here and have that job because you work cheap, while our people must have higher wages in order to survive and pay all the fees we are required by law to pay.
well, because it would take them years and years and years, and they wouldnt be able to take taxes from them and not give them back and I mean theres no warranty that after all that training they are gonna do it right. :)
And no, I dont work for cheap, and my bf either (hes white) so I dont know why dont you just go and ask your employers for an arise and stop whinning to us, if you work hard you deserve to make the money, but if you just go and pretend to work while the other ones do it for you, well, dont expect wonders, ok bye. Here's for the haters :)
Well, I couldnt pay my mortgage, pay the utilities, pay my insurance, pay for food, and gas for what YOU would work for.furthermore, alot of These companies wont hire me to work for livable wages...plain and simple.and I dont have 5 other families living with me either to pool resources.does that answer the question for you perhaps?
i am a flatbed truck driver and guess who loads my truck with the forklifts most of the time? mexicans. in most of the states, different types of industries, and so on. they are very talented, and i have seen them handling 48 ft boards 15 ft off the ground and do it very skillfully. i have no grudge against hard working people.
because when you come to this country you don't come in with degrees and diplomas. you start with low paying jobs. illegals don't ask for higher wages and health care. thats why they are hired.
but now we're a bigger threat because we are educating our selfs and getting better jobs.
have you seen some of the politicians? they are latinos.
two more years gives us a better vote and chance to legalize illegals.
Well done! Sorry, but I can't afford you and your 20 million other illegals, so you'll have to LEAVE MY COUNTRY now.
Thanks alot, though.
Just think: if you paid taxes, and had to pay for health care and school fees, and license, registration fees, and insurance for vehicles, it would take $14,000 per month to live in California! It's so expensive here because we have to support a lot of illegal aliens - who don't pay taxes, health care and school fees, etc.
Unfortunately, our government officials are only qualified to train people to do one thing: not think. Look at Senators Boxer (D-CA) and Feinstein (D-CA).
Who are you talking to? these people are immigrants as well. I 'll like to know where they come from or their ancestors come from. How can an immigrant as someone else to leave the country? if it is like that then everyone should have to leave the country except for genuine American Indians.
Many of you need to go back to school ..."talking about ingorance"
and what exactly do you do mr rich guy?
and how exactly were you trained?
did you go to school? or did you just happen to fall into this category of labor?
the only way you make that much being illegal is by selling illegal narcotics. which means you should be put under the prision not just in it.
otherwise you are a liar.
The American Government (and other governments) cares more about its military, and starting wars, than about educating its citizens. It is expensive to get an education in the United States and many people can't afford it. You are lucky to have an education. The backlash you just received is based upon racism but also the fact that you are rubbing their noses in your success.
The issue here is you do not believe the laws are just, and that makes it OK for you to break them. You do not consider yourself a criminal either. You are paying taxes, buying property, saving money, and working for an employer that believes you are legal. Criminals are the first to say they are Innocent. The fact that you are earning the big bucks makes it easy for the government to take it all away. In this country the people fear the government and I hope you do not find out why. In a short time the people are going to stand up and tell the politicians we want action and we want you gone.
I think you are lying to try to make a point, but you are not supporting the facts.
If you had a skill that paid that much money and was needed in this country then there would be no need for you to be here illegally. Just ask all the people who are here on Visas as Engineers.
bla bla bla is all you read from white people. Am there with you man. Am an illegal myself. I live in Cali too. I can happly say am taking a white man job...i see them applying for the job and they never get beacuse they have no experience, and on top of that they dont speak spanish. Now day you can make more monay if you speak both leanguages. Que viva la revolucion!!
I know many illegals are making more money than I ever have.
I hope I don't "offend" too many but there's always this push for education as if it's a guarentee for more money. There were guys paid 27 bucks an hour to coat my driveway. I never coated a driveway before. I didn't know how to. After watching them do it.trust me...next time I'll do it myself. But I never got paid more than 12.75 to take x-rays, draw blood, do physical therapy...I can guarentee you they could not do what I did. My education didn't guarentee me more money compared to what they made. They do things with inner-city kids who have never seen a cow. Milked one. You also learn what you're exposed too. I lived in Nebraska and learned so much! I didn't know what "tasseling corn" was. I always thought if a horse laid down it ment they were going to die. When we switched to industrial..we lost alot of knowledge on the ag side. If push came to shove..what I learned in Nebraska and what I learned in college is more beneficial than computers or sealing a driveway or the psychology of business arrangements in a store. We can't all be experts in every field. We're all lacking in information on one level or another. It's just a shame it's the almighty buck that determines which is more worthy or better. Then it just kills me to watch Jay Leno and jay-walking. I swear...the more educated they are the less they seem to know. A college PROFESSOR didn't know who we got our independance from. Yet they grabbed a black grandpa and he didn't have to even think and knew the answers. Knowledge is useless if you don't know what to do with it. Anyone can rip off words but what does it mean?
I know when I did live in Nebraska..so many of the kids didn't want to carry on the business of the family ranch. Their parents were literal millionaires but pops was in overalls. Not as cool as a 3 piece suit and all the superficial respect of a lawyer. It's more "respectful" to have a job where you're dressed pretty than when you're dirty. But that farmer (rancher) knows the difference between right and wrong and the lawyer probably couldn't grow a tomatoe plant.
I do beleive we've lost track when a farmer is seen less important than a computer programmer. When someone who studies color and psychological design to get people to spend more money is more important than a nurse. When a football player makes more money than a mom. When a driveway sealer makes more money than a teacher. When Paris Hilton can make more money giving an interview about her time in jail than a single mom working 3 jobs could make in a lifetime.
You should be glade there are unskilled Americans or is it
because you will work for less then Skilled Americans? what ever illegal is still illegal skilled or unskilled.
You don't have to do any unskilled labor at all. You should feel free to go back home where you belong. This is not your home, so you are ridiculous in becoming indignant about anything. You have no real voice in anything that matters.
One reason we're supposed to rejoice at the pitter-patter of illegal feet is that foreigners are only coming here to "do jobs Americans won't do." It's one of those basic assumptions upon which the argument in favor of forgetting we have borders, a culture and laws rests, and even President Bush mentioned this "truth" while speaking about immigration reform recently. And, undoubtedly, there are certain immutable laws of economics.
Only, this isn't one of them.
The next time someone mindlessly parrots this mantra, just ask, "What jobs would those be?" As you'll soon learn, the answer doesn't really matter, but sometimes we're shamed by didacts who oh-so-sternly say that illegals are the people who "pick our fruit for us." So, fruit picking - something that must be in league with being a rat catcher in Victorian London or Wile E. Coyote's stunt double - is as good an example as any.
One amusing aspect of the fruit picking fiction is that millions of people in our country engage in this activity as a form of recreation. Why, there are folks who embark upon autumn ventures to the hinterlands to pick apples and consider it a fun family outing. But I digress.
I have to ask, if I paid you $800 an hour to pick fruit, would you do it? Except for the silk and satin set, I have a feeling most would beat a path to my orchard. And this brings us to what is a true law of economics.
There are no jobs Americans won't do. There are only wages Americans won't work for.
And this relates to a fact of contemporary American life: immigrants, illegal or otherwise, depress wages. Oh, some would dispute this? Well, they're wrong and I intend to prove it.
There's another universal, unchangeable law of economics called "supply and demand," and most of us understand it. Regardless of what product or service is at issue, if demand increases relative to supply, prices increase; if supply increases relative to demand, prices drop. And this phenomenon is relevant here. Why?
Quite simply because, like it or not, within the context of a free market system workers are commodities whose value is determined by supply and demand. For example, a skilled neurosurgeon doesn't make a half a million dollars a year because what he does is so important. If that were the case, he'd earn more than people who hit, kick and throw balls around and sign autographs. No, his income is a function of his rarity; create 100 million more just like him, and his salary will become relatively paltry.
Thus, increase the supply of workers relative to the jobs available and the value of workers decreases. This is not opinion, my friends, but hard, cold fact. Immigrants swell the worker pool, thereby increasing competition for jobs, allowing employers to pay less for the same employees. We've all heard of a "buyer's market" and a "seller's market"; well, high levels of immigration transform us from a worker's market into an employer's market. Big business loves it.
Of course, the immigration lobby has an answer at the ready when this truth becomes inconvenient. "How much do you want to pay for a head of lettuce?!" they exclaim.
What's so ironic about this argument is that its proponents are generally the very same people who'll zealously campaign for increases in the minimum wage, an action that can also increase the cost of doing business and, therefore, retail prices. But since they say they want to help poor Americans, let's discuss that.
The natural, free market way to help low income Americans is to increase their value by making them rarer commodities. How do you do this? You guessed it, by severely curtailing (a moratorium would be ideal) immigration. Do that and America becomes more of a worker's market, forcing businesses to offer more money to attract applicants.
Would goods become more expensive? Perhaps, but while this isn't the focus of this piece, that may be more than offset by the elimination of the social consequences (e.g., hospital, welfare and education costs) of absorbing millions of often illiterate (some can't even read and write their own languages) Third World immigrants into our nation. Regardless, this is the traditional, healthy, free market way of spreading the wealth around. And I'd rather redistribute wealth through the market than through socialism.
Lastly, there's another irony here. Cesar Chavez, the head of the United Farm Workers Union during its heyday, is a hero of Americans of Mexican descent. So much so, in fact, that his name is often associated with the dual cause of promoting immigration and the re-conquest of California and the American southwest, known as La Reconquista. Conveniently forgotten, though, is a very inconvenient fact: when Chavez enjoyed the peak of his power, he was a fervid - bordering on venomous - opponent of illegal immigration. And he not only railed against it but often actually reported Mexican illegals to the INS so they could be deported. He also protested illegal immigration on the border in 1969 and had civilian border guards who were sufficiently heavy-handed to make today's Minutemen seem milquetoasty.
What motivated him? Quite simply, he was charged with the responsibility of keeping his union members' wages as high as possible. And he understood the law of supply and demand.
We have a union called the United States. I just wonder if membership therein means anything anymore.
Of course, there's always cheap lettuce.
Take your skills and go back and help your own country, How came Mexicans dont have any pride in Mexico.
True.
And if those Americans who are complaining and moaning that "illegals" take their jobs, I think they should go and take the job back, if they really want it (which I doubt it).
The media is making it look that way because the media is partially controled by the government too.
The government wants the citizens to feel sorry for you. Most of us don't, but some of us do because of those stupid statements about 'low wages' and 'hard work that citizens won't do.' Then you guys all think we are all lazy and whatnot. None of those things are true.
And that bill was not going to help any of you in the end. I think it was also something to just bring you out of the woodwork. You don't know what would happen in the future.
I won't say anything mean to you about being illegal, even though it is wrong of you. But I think you should go back and just do things the right way and do what is required. It is not that hard, I know it is just the waiting that is difficult.
Plus, you really don't need to be here if you are one who is running from the law. The laws here have always been to keep out criminals.
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