OK why do people say illegal Mexicans are taking there jobs?
413673
Here is the delema. The reason that there is so much of a stink is. The illegals are getting offered wages for like, $3 and hour, which is targeted at them to give the employer cheaper workers, just an example. This is below minimum wage, and illegal. An illegal immigrant will take this, and can't complain because they are illegal. Now if the same job was offered at minimum wage. Granted alot of people aren't going to take the job, but there would be more people inclined to take it. No one in there right mind, if they are legal, is going to take a job at $3. So how they are saying that americans won't do those jobs, is inaccurate, because these jobs aren't being offered at legal wages. The American may have little education, but you know what, they are still citizens, and should have atleast a chance at the job, at minimum wage. When they are saying that the wages are low, they don't mean minimum wage low, like Mcdonalds. They mean unsustainably low and illegal. The reason they can live on these low wages is, if there are a bunch working, they all get a small place and use the money together to live there.
763857
There are plenty of illegal immigrants who do it, and NO I am not being racist just stating a fact!...;
723675
Immigrants would stop coming illegally if people would stop hiring them. But the people who hire illegal immigrants are also folks who have a lot of influence with Congress because they're wealthy. They want to keep the cheap labor, and they'll pull campaign contributions for anyone who votes for real reform.
920039
heak no i wouldn't i can get a better job with benefits at the same price. but anyways, i don't think this is what the question is about. most people would say that immigrants are taking their jobs away but is it true. i think not they are doing jobs that we don't want. do you know have they are treated in the feilds.... there is a saying.... you don't know a person until you been in there shoes. personally i haven't but i have heard stories from my family that had to go through that to get to where they are.
81600
Hiring illegal immigrants is a cheap & easy way for businesses to get the help they need.  The illegals and the businesses both are taking jobs away from Americans.  If the jobs wern't available to those that cross the borders, they might think twice about risking their lives for nothing.
845793
Sorry.......no.  If you're refering to illegals that take low paying jobs or bid low on jobs...then they have done it to themselves.  I knew that would be the next line of doo-do.  They came here illegally and willingly took whatever job they wanted.  No one forced them.  They volunteered their services.  If there's "segragation" it's on their part for not wanting to assimilate in this country.  They seperate themselves with their language and all the talk about "their" people.  So that trip won't fly either.
382943
Correct on EVERY thing you have said....Nice job sassy. Not to mention..It is being said that prices of goods and services would be on the rise when we deport the "illegals" from our land. If this is the case..why haven't prices gone down as a result of there illegal employment?
609673
Who do you think did all those jobs before illegals invaded our country?  Maybe those jobs didn't exist, or maybe farmers let their produce rot?  Your argument is illogical and self serving.  The fact of the matter is that employers want these illegals here because they can take advantage of them, and the government who looks out for the interests of the business elite, supports them in this.  They try to play Americans for fools by sending troops to the border and suggesting a guest worker program, which is just a way to ensure a permanent source of cheap labor for these greedy employers.  Illegals will work for wages that no American will work for, and as a result they take jobs from Americans and drive wages down for everybody else.  It's obvious you don't know what you are talking about when you bring up something like doing construction work for $7.50 an hour.  Construction work, just so you know, was a good job that paid a lot more than $7.50 an hour and that employed many Americans, until illegals started swarming our country and doing doing construction for shit wages.  A lot of Americans lost good paying jobs, and contruction companies increased their profits by grotesque proportions.  So don't fool yourself by thinking that illegals are essential.  The only reason they are allowed to come and stay is because they increase the profits of the business elite.  But this can only go on for so long.  At some point, Americans will get so sick of being screwed that these businessmen and their politician buddies who are selling out their counrtry for profits, will have no choice but to stop hiring illegals altogether, and these illegals will have no choice but to go home where they belong.
593509
They do take jobs.  They work for less than the govt requires be paid to legals - construction right now is the worst.\n\nThe reason we worry about it so much is because almost all of the illegals are then using govt assistance, and since they are paid under the table or do not have to pay taxes.  We end up paying for them to be illegal.\n\nI worry about whether I can give my family everything I want to (and work hard to be able to) and my taxes keep going up because of the illegals.\n\nAND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON HOW MANY OF THEM THEN BREAK OUR LAWS and end up in prison where I am AGAIN paying for them...\n\nWhy do you care what we worry about?  If you too are American and do not worry about it, then I suggest you write your congressman/woman and suggest that people who are in favor of illegals can pay into a fund with their earned money so the rest of us no longer have to.\n\n<< go to any govt care facility in CA - they are NOT ALLOWED TO TURN ANYONE away, SS# or NOT - they cannot even ask for immigration status! - be sure you have all your facts for EVERY state before you say something is stupid.>>
701816
Mexicans coming to the US is a form of outsourcing.  Mexicans come here to take services jobs that cannot be outsourced.  How can you outsource picking strawberries on a farm in Half Moon Bay, California?  The only way to do this is draw illegal workers into the US.  Since they are illegal you can pay them less money than US Citizens.\n\nOutsourcing is just a bad idea.  It's one thing to outsource jobs that require little or no higher education or training; and quite another to outsource jobs that require 4, 6, or 8 years of advanced education to perform.  If you outsource all of the high tech, R&D, finance and MBA, and marketing jobs what jobs will you have left?  Moreover, corporations that outsource these jobs are financing the creation of their own foreign competitors.  That is how new companies form; highly trained, experience employees of a given corporation leave and form their own company.  What makes this worse is that now, if the jobs are outsourced instead of have this new company contribute to the US economy, it will expand a foreign country's economy.
825124
All these people complain about illegals taking there jobs but who the hell hires them if not people who are trying to save a buck here and there by hiring them for much less money than they know a person who lives here would if illegals knew that it would be a little harder to get a job over here i don't think there would be that many. We have to deal with those people too stop hiring illegals just so you can save a few bucks or stop charging them hundreds of dollars to get them across the illegals aren't the only ones to blame.
684198
lets be honest  yeah the American citizens would work them but only the white lazy crackheads. They would work these jobs but not as good as illegals do because they know if they make a mistake in that specific job they can get fired and they can't afford that. They have kids in their countries. So they work hard to keep their employers happy. Do you really think a us citizen would tolerate cleaning shit, working 10 hours in the sun as a gardener. no because they're citizens and they have opportunities.Just Analise things. No one would do the jobs better than an immigrant.And you said it they wouldn't take shit from their employers. Right? So they would eventually get tired of cleaning shit and they would eventually find themselves quitting. Why haven't i seen citizens doing these jobs right now? They don't want to. They r lazy and most try to find easy jobs. Increase in the wages maybe but remember threes bitchy people that expect you to do the jobs right. No matter how much they pay these citizensthey wouldn't tolerate this.They can never do these jobs as good as illegals.if an illegal can find a job so can a citizen but threes so many unemployed because they don't give it as much time to look for a job that illegal aliens. Just face it the economy would slowly deteriorate.
1144155
poor girl!! People say that this is a illegal immigration issue not a racist issue, but people make it a racist issue when they make comments like "All Mexicans are stealing lazy a$$es" how can you debate with those kind of comments and say it's just a illegal immigration issue?I call BULL SH*T. and agree with you!!
387385
You mean illegal aliens?\n\nMore than they're used to!\n\nPersonally, the quality of their work is proportionate to their wage.
336850
The borders must be secured to avoid all the illegal immigration but also persecute companies that are doing the illegal hiring to exploit cheap labor. As long as there is a demand, the flow will continue. Immigration has to be controled, no question about it.
637081
Although I like your question, most of those jobs go through more of a rigorous screening and background check than, say, a day laborer.  An "illegal" is just trying to make ends meet, just like the rest of us. I would welcome more people in the world with a higher education, regardless of ethnicity, or how they arrived to where they live.\nBut it is true to note that if this did happen, more politicians and upper-middle class folks would be more forceful in solving the problem. As it is now, they rather illegal immigrants do the hard work because legal employees have more rights, and expect more money, and in essence, seem lazier.
1050816
Look around you; who "runs" this country?  Mexicans clean, they build, they repair, they cook, they serve, they do the gardening, they pick up the trash, they work in the factories - they are an integral part of our society whether you want to admit it or not.\nThe thing is, like one other person stated, it is an "immigration" thing not Mexican....what about all the South Americans, all the Asians, all the Canadians, Russions, Iranians, Indians, that are here with expired work permits, getting free or low interest business loans to own their own business, have a better opportunity than some of us citizens to drive around in Mercedes, Porches, Bentley,s, etc.  \nIn essence, we need to concentrate on ALL illegals, close ALL the borders til we can get some of this mess straigtened out.