MSM Admits: Illegal Aliens Deprive Americans of Jobs
Posted on September 15, 2009
Here’s a headline I wouldn’t have expected from USA Today:
Immigration raids yield jobs for legal workers
It seems the illegal alien hordes — which have been driving hospitals out of business and bankrupting California — aren’t just doing the work Americans won’t do.
When federal agents descended on six meatpacking plants owned by Swift & Co. in December 2006, they rounded up nearly 1,300 suspected illegal immigrants that made up about 10% of the labor force at the plants.
But the raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents did not cripple the company or the plants. In fact, they were back up and running at full staff within months by replacing those removed with a significant number of native-born Americans, according to a report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
That was the most extreme example of what has become an increasingly common result of the raids: “They were very beneficial to American workers,” according to Vanderbilt University professor Carol Swain.
During flush times, illegal aliens at least supply needed labor. During a recession, they take jobs from Americans who need them desperately. Also, as even a policy analyst for pro-illegal La Raza admits:
If you’ve got a segment of the workforce that’s afraid to speak out against violations of their labor rights, then that drags down wages and working conditions for all workers.
Of course, La Raza’s solution would be the same as Comrade Obama’s: amnesty — which will hardly make it easier for Americans to find jobs.
There is an entity that actually benefits from our policy of leaving the border wide open for uncontrolled immigration: Big Government. The more illiterate peasants from Third World backwaters wind up on welfare, the faster the cancer metastasizing out of Washington will grow.
On a tip from J. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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Illegal labor is like having Walmart on your construction crew. It allows for a greater cost savings which can be passed on to the consumer, thus lowering prices of homes and buildings. Or it can be used to increase the profit of the company, if it chooses to hang on to extra money.
The government also profits in that it keeps the employer’s contribution from their payroll account. The government had no incentive to look for illegals, it was all about the free money.
That said, you are right, in times of expansion they do fill a role as a ready source of labor. Now people, who were too proud or arrogant to take a low level job because they could get better without hardly trying, are a little more humble. Starving will do that to you.
There is a silver lining in this recession, and that is people have gained a respect for budgets, a hatred for wasted money, and some humility.
Not all bad
The bombardment of American voters at the doors of Congress must be heard, to make E-Verify a permanent illegal immigrant enforcement tool? It’s incredulous that we are winning small wars against our lawmakers beneficiaries–the special interest lobby. LEGISLATORS ARE FINALLY HEARING OUR ANGRY VOICES. Rep. Joe Wilson C-SC opened the eyes of millions of Americans, who are been left unaware of the cloaked–AMNESTY–committees that is going to rip the fabric of every voters life apart. Any detail in the national media has been subdues or intentionally omitted, as with the crowds of Tea Party opponents. Sen. Harry Reid could be stretching his neck out for the headsman in his re-election campaign, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. They both have used their political influence in trying to overturn E-Verify. Pro-Illegal alien lawmakers could table it, under the “Sunset Provision” on September 30?
President Obama’s direction towards an unmentionable path to citizenship for all those who broke our law is abhorrent. After the controversial eruption in the Session of Congress, they surely must be aware that imposing immigration reform on the people could break them? Americans taxpayers are already supporting business welfare? Corporate entities want these destitute people here to exploit, but don’t want to pay for their health care, schooling or towards the massive numbers surviving in prison. They leave that to the fading middle class taxpayers who carry the tax burden? Over a decade has passed since illegal people started coming here in droves and with little or no laws, to blockade their arrival we are now talking over 20 million. Nor does it stop there? Owing to the clarion call of Amnesty ringing out in the slums and ghetto’s of foreign criminals, sick, elderly and those without means, from all over the world will descend on us. IT MEANS OVERPOPULATION?
Bad as it may be now, who is going to subsidize the new arrivals? Not the business cartels that’s for sure? Once again taxpayers will be heavily taxed to pay for the new shipment of poor, uneducated from every region. How can we expect to have any government public option for our own people, when our gates remain wide open for “Anchor Babies” and the illegal millions expecting a free handout? A nurse in a Nevada hospital indicated they have a row of beds of illegal immigrants on dialysis, which was costing weekly $18.000 dollars for each treatment. Tell me who pays for that? The US government pays a small portion; the rest is acquired from the hospital or taxpayer.
I want a single payer system for homeless veterans, seniors, single mothers with children and poor American families. But I refuse to pay for everybody who climbs, crawls under the fence or bluffs the Federal officer at shipping ports and airports of entry. It’s not our responsibility. DON’T WAIT! PESTER YOUR SENATOR OR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AT 202-224-3121? Find true facts by GOOGLING NUMBERSUSA, JUDICIAL WATCH & IMMIGRATION COUNTERS