- Oct 20, 2013
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When I first started working in machine shops in the early eighties mexicans made up about 5% of employees. When I retired it was around 80% and wages stagnated because they would work for less.
They took away jobs that our kids did like mowing lawns. When I was a kid I made a shitload of money cutting grass. They also are stealing min wage jobs from our kids and now they are demanding increases in min wage for jobs that were never meant to be anything but starter jobs.
They dont care about Ameirca and what it stands for. They only care about the money and couldnt give a shit about patriotism.
They send the money they do make back to mexico instead of spending it in the US costing us untold millions in taxes and business revenues.
And dont try and compare them to the Irish or any other immigrant. They came here and even went as far as to change their names to fit in. mexicans come here and demand we bow to their culture.
There is no doubt they cause damage to America.
I agree that they send money back to Mexico. They do so to support their families. In fact, the mexicans that I have worked with were always more concerned about their families than about themselves. Perhaps some of our legal Americans could learn from them?
As for them taking jobs, I can only give you what I know from experience.
I worked for 12 years with a company that put conduit for fiber optics and fiber optic lines underground (among other telecom work). Our subcontractors hired hispanic labor extensively. On one job the local INS and union people pushed to make sure there were no illegals on the job. We ran ads looking for laborers to dig holes and trenches. The pay was $500 per week to start and $600 per week after 90 days. We had over 100 people answer the ad and apply. We called almost 50 back for interviews. 10 of those outright refused a laborer job. We tried hiring people over and over. Only 3 (if I recall) came back for their second day on the job. And only one lasted a week.
I have seen companies try over and over to hire American workers. People SAY they want work. But when it comes to hard manual labor, most Americans won't even try. And those that do are about half-assed about it.
The hispanic crews I have supervised would start work on time, work hard until you told them to take lunch, and be ready to go an hour later.
1. The families in Mexico are a problem for the Mexican govt to deal with, not anyone in AMerica, especially millions of unemployed Americans. And no matter ho wkind-hearted Mexican immigrants in America may be to the families back home, they are being UNkind to every American by harmimg our economy, by depriving it of the money (and thereby sales) it needs to thrive.
2. To say that most Americans won't even try to do hard manual labor is ridiculous. First of all, it isn't necessary to get "most" AMericans to do hard manual labor, because most jobs are not hard manual labor. As far as the ones that are tough, the toughest, dirtiest, and most dangerous jobs in America are being done exclusively by Americans with not an immigrant in sight. These are coal miners, firefighters, US Army and National Guard construction workers in the Corps of Engineers, and the US troops in Afghanistan. I myself was a combat Construction Specialist in the Corps of Engineers, for 5 years, and I can tell you the civilian construction work the Mexicans do
in America, is a picnic compared to what we did (all of us Americans).
Another thing about the "jobs Americans won't do" myth, is the study done by CIS recently which analyzed 472 civilian occupations. Of all these, only six were majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent of the total U.S. workforce. Moreover, native-born Americans still comprise 46 percent of workers even in these occupations.
Many jobs often thought to be overwhelmingly immigrant (legal and illegal) are in fact majority native-born:
Maids and housekeepers: 51 percent native-born
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs: 58 percent native-born
Butchers and meat processors: 63 percent native-born
Grounds maintenance workers: 64 percent native-born
Construction laborers: 66 percent native-born
Porters, bellhops, and concierges: 72 percent native-born
Janitors: 73 percent native-born