Ray From Cleveland
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So, millions of low-skill, low-education foreign nationals illegally enter our country and drive down the wages of any job that requires not even literacy nor the ability to speak English and so the only Americans doing those jobs are the very least capable--the bottom of the barrel of our own workers. And you use your experiences with them as some sort of argument for the virtue and blamelessness of your undercutting of our workers while underpaying illegals to get cheap landscaping. Enjoy your fat and happy exploitation. Your grandkids will pay for your ignorance, greed, and laziness.I live about 40 miles from the border. I need handyman and landscaping help from time to time, but in the last 7 years, only one out of 6 anglos that I hired, showed up on time, sober, and did the job well. on the other hand, the Latinos that I have hired was just the reverse. About 5 in 6 showed up on time, and finished the job, and their price is about half what the anglos charge. Naturally, now, I specifically look for Latinos to do the job. i have no idea if they are citizens or not, and frankly, I no longer care.
My experience goes a lot deeper than that.Our house in New Orleans was all but wiped out by Katrina. Virtually every house in a four parish area was destroyed. In our case, all we had left was the foundation and the frame, and brick. The roof, appliances, flooring inside walls and sheetrock, cabinets, and everything else was destroyed, to the tune of $125,000. It was impossible to find anyone in New Orleans to rebuild.Nobody was working, so it was't a matter of manpower shortage. Within 3 weeks, the illegal immigrants flooded the city. Over the next 9 months, they rebuilt virtually the whole city. They slept in tents in the park, and worked 7 days per week. Even with their efforts, it took me 5 months to rebuild my house., and I was luckier than most, because my son-in-law was a contractor. All, and I mean all, all the people he hired spoke Spanish as their first, if not only language.
And, as for my grandson, I am not at all worried. Although he is only 6 months old, we have a whole lot bigger plans for him that reroofing houses.
Except the issue with illegals was never how hard they worked. Nobody cares how hard they work.
Same story here in southern california. Illegals do a lot of the work because the homeowners usually want cheap. And you get what you pay for.
And the people that hire them are the very same that stick up for unions when we have stories about Right to Work states or states considering becoming one.