I've always contended that immigration period is the number one reason, wages in this country is at a stand still. I work with a lot of foreigners, hispanics, asians, africans, russians etc.....and our pay sucks....need I say more.....God bless em, but these people are happy to be in this country, happy to have a job and could care less if they never got a raise...they don't speak much, they stick to themselves, never miss days... I mean these people are what employers crave!!We all have, especially us darkies...hello....its just another sound bite big corpra put out there that seems to linger. Before illegals took over this venue, poor blacks and whites back in the 60's and 70's use to do this work. It wasn't until congress enacted laws protecting children and demanding a min. wage for this work, that big corporations began exploiting illegals.Illegal workers are like an necessary evil in America. They’ve been doing the jobs we don’t want. I’m sure none of us here want to pick fruit in a field all day.
The time of illegals being limited to migrant farm work is long, long gone, if it ever was.
I've done plenty of those jobs that they say "Americans don't want", from busboy to tax driver.
Those jobs would be far less shitty, and far more well paid, if we have better trade and immigration policies.
My mother in law was a nurse-s aide. Literally a shitty job.
She worked out in a more rural area small city/large town hospital, that was bought by a large city hospital.
There was a problem with combining the systems, because the nurese's aides at the more rural setting made several dollars an hour more than the aides in the big city, where there was more poor people, including immigrates and illegals, looking for work.
The difference for the Poor, with immigration, is the difference between being poor and being able to support your family at a low level, and being utterly fucked.
When I was a taxi driver, the daily leases were absurd. The only reason they company could get away with shit like that, was because they had a large pool of desperate drivers.