By keeping them illegal they will always be on the ground floor. If you cared about them you'd support making them legal or at least having a guest worker program. The people that want them to remain illegal are the tax cheats. The restaurants, carpenters, landscapers etc are mostly cash businesses. If they start paying people on the books they have to pay FICA and workmens comp. But worst of all they have to show the government they made more money to cover the salaries, and then pay taxes on it. I know first hand many restaurants with 10-20 employees only claim 2 or 3. They buy their beer from the distributor so there's no paper trail and pay cash for the meat. Carpenters are probably worse. A friend of mine bought a 500k house on a payment system. He gave the guy 200k cash and the other three in cash payments over two years. The guy he bought the house from made his money in carpentry and moved back to Ireland. It's all done to avoid paying into the system. My friend is legal now because of the lottery they had ever couple of years. People that have these illegals working for them can treat them like shit and have them working 10 or 18 hour days without overtime or holiday pay. When they get sick or accidentally cut off a finger there's a drive by the ER and they get rolled out the car. They're told if they say anything the INS will be sent to their apartment to depart all their friends and family.
When somebody interns it's to get his or her foot in the door to start off a career. They do it for six month or a year and either move up or go to another company. Illegals stay at the same dead end jobs you claim nobody wants anyway. Saying they're better off now then if they didn't come is as bad that idiot that said we saved the slaves by bringing them to this country. On 4/12/06, Gruss Gott wrote: > > So, then, unpaid or low-paid internships are slave labor? Or > volunteer work, also slave labor? Of course not. > > In the case of low paid immigrant workers, they are taking much better > jobs than they could get at home, in much better conditions, and with > a much better future. In exchange for that opportunity they are > willing to start on the ground floor (something that can't be said for > some Americans). > > The market is demanding these workers and the workers are demanding > the jobs! Why should *government* get in the way especially when the > wealth created from this arrangement could benefit the US taxpayer? > > Have you seen the social security problem we're facing? You know why? > Too few workers to retirees. > > We've got people by the millions that want to be successful, > productive, tax paying, wealth creating US citizens and to turn them > away because of an arbitrary quota is the height of stupidity. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:203915 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
