What kind of jobs do illegal immigrants do?
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Actually they do all kinds of jobs, but most are in the agriculture and construction industries. Check out the site below for statistics.
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if you want to come to this country legally to work, you need a sponsor.  that means someone that wants to give you a skilled job which american citizens cannot fill.  \nmost illegal aliens that i have heard of are working as day laborers or in food processing plants like purdue etc.  these are below poverty level wages that are not something the government will not recognize as essential.  this is where a guest worker program would be much easier to deal with.
1006373
illegals cant work, they arrive with no money, where they gonna get money for taxes
305549
They did something illegal. Isn't that the definition of a criminal?\n\nI'm tired of the stereotype that Americans wouldn't do the work that illegals do. Illegals do all kinds of jobs for less than minimum wage which drive the wages down for U.S. citizens. Construction jobs are an example. There are lots of illegals doing construction jobs that Americans used to do because the companies can keep more of the profits if they pay less for the workers. All that does is make companies wealthier and Americans poorer. Illegals are stealing jobs that Americans have done for years.
467030
Yeah, but they have to eat. If they can't get a better job because they don't have the papers then how can you say no to a job that exploits you but gives you enough to at least eat?\n\nA friend of mine works at a country club. She just started and she's already thinking of quiting. Her boss is sexually harassing her. She's gonna sue his ass and is trying to get the other girls who work with her and who have received the same treatment to testify. The problem is nobody wants to because they are illegal and will get deported if they do. They stay there because they don't have any other job to go and they have to send the money and help their family's back home. \n\nThis kind of thing makes me very sad and angry but that's just how life is. Just be thankful you will never have to be in their shoes, or at least pray that you don't.
965630
There aren't any jobs Americans won't do.  If illegals were granted amnesty and all their other demands met, that we don't even get.....how long are they going to be doing those jobs?  Then want?  When they cap the welfare and start telling these people you can't have 35 people in a 2 bedroom house and you HAVE to have car insurance and legal documents and they are stuck with taxes and fines and everybody isn't looking the other way anymore......they won't do them either because you can't live off those wages.  If you are thousands of dollars in debt for school loans, you can't live picking tomatoes a few months out of the year and survive and pay back the loans.  They want a better life and they aren't going to want to settle either.\n\nThey have gotten away with doing things that most of us would have been thrown in jail for doing.  They'd be yanking kids right and left out of our hands and putting them in foster homes if we did the stuff they do.  It's not been any sort of level playing field because we have gone by the rule of law and they have not.\n\nThey are getting homes with false documents, no credit history, no savings..........ya....I'd like to see how far the rest of us get doing that.  No accurate criminal records.  Mulitple identies.  Run for the border at the first sign of trouble.  Have some "special interest" group foot the bill for your law suits while the rest of us have to do it on our dime.  \n\nIt's been far from fair or close to equal footing.  Same game, different rule book.  There's always going to be someone to do those jobs.  We don't NEED illegals to do them.
587211
Nope. The only workplace encounter I ever had with an illegal immigrant was in the kitchen of a restaurant. This guy was from Mexico... he was a GREAT dishwasher... I mean that sincerely. It's not an easy job. He did his job swiftly and without complaining. He was much better than the dumb guy they got to replace him when they found out he was illegal.
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Yes, they are human beings after all, and do a lot of the jobs that legal citizens wouldn't for the wages paid. Ms China up here must be a Republican, because to think that illegal alliens are responsible for taxes going up it's totally misleading.\n\nFirst: Illegal Immigrants pay millions of dollars in taxes each year, that are never refunded, because they are afraid that if they file, they'll get busted.\n\nSecond: You couldn't afford to stay in a hotel, have fresh produce at your local grocery store, or go to your local McDonalds to have a cheese burger if it weren't for all the illegals! They make it possible for you and me to have all these services for a lot less, due to their minimal wage jobs! \n\nAproximatelly 90% of migrant workers are comprised of illegal alliens! Good luck getting your fresh fruits and veggies delivered to your table.\n\nThe same is true to the meat packaging industry...forget your oscar myer hotdogs and spam...The wetbacks package all that for us too!\n\nSo before you go bathmouthing the illegals, think about how much money would you like to be paid to clean up a publick restroom, or take out the trash from a hospital, or spend all day out in the scorching sun picking up produce! \n\nThese people don't want to come here to get a free-ride, they bust their ass out, doing grunt jobs nobody wants, because they want to be able to feed their families. \n\nTaxes are raised, because a lot of real American's live beyond their means, by filling bankruptcy and overcharging their credit cards! Who do you think ends up paying for that? The tax payers do.\n\nThe politicians, by messing  up all budgets, and overspending with really futile things, such as a bigger retirement plan for themselves...or let's say our beloved Hillary Rodham Clinton which charges the secret service $10,000.00 a month to rent a house to the secret service agents, that guard her huge mansion in NY. Which coincidentaly matches her monthly mortage. Who pays the secret service? We the tax payers do!\n\nOf course the Politicians wants us to think that the illegal alliens are the root of all evil, because that takes the heat off them! This country was build on the backs of immigrants, and it's up to us to fix this mess.
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I don't think so. Whose gonna do the unwanted jobs then? Easy for some people to say yes but they wouldn't dare do the jobs these people do. Did you ever think that some of these people came here legally to be able to support their families but majority of them ended up being abused by their employers so they ended up illegals? I have heard a lot of stories and verified them. Some of the bad things that happened to them were done by by our fellow Americans and you talk of having electric fences? What's the matter with you? I bet your ancestors would love to hear your comments when they came here as immigrants too. If they'd have known what the future generation would be maybe they would have aborted you.
374683
Illegal immigrants do not pay taxes!  Most work for cash under the table but those that do get a check and USE a social security number fill out their W-2s with so many dependents(whether they exist or not) that very little or no taxes are taken out of their checks.
630273
The Illegal Immigrants.
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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.
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Because you have to be an illegal alien to get a job!
1040616
Yeah the immigrantsin the U.S. don't do the jobs that the American's do because the only jobs that American's do are job's like lawyers, banker's, and judges. The jobs that illegals do are cleaning restaurant's, flipping burgers, and all those other jobs that American's don't do because the Americans don't wanna' do!
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.
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Good point.  I know of many cases where people have worked the heck out of illegal aliens for days and when pay day comes they report them to the cops or immigration to avoid paying them.  The employer is usually someone that hires them for handyman work and it never involves major companies.  Bottom line is that the illegal alien usually get returned to their country.  Also this mostly occurs in border communities.
980566
The answer is simple.  Give heavy fines to those employers who  violate our law by hiring illegal workers.  If there were no jobs, there would be no illegals. This is not done because it does not serve the corporations who profit from this and the destruction of our lower and middle classes.  Illegals are slaves who will work for less and without benefits, something corporations make huge profits from.  Follow the money.  You might ask why our laws are not enforced, but rather we are led to debate an army and Berlin type wall on the border?