why cant i find a job? could it be cuz the mexican down the street can work for much cheaper?
486390
Yep. I went to school to better myself and get a degree in my chosen field. Then when I went out to try to find work I am told that I can work for the same rate as they pay the other workers. That was only $7 an hour for a welding tech.\nIf I weree in some other state I could get $30 but I can't move for family reasons.\nThe other workers were all Mexican nationals.
640135
We can afford trillion dollar wars though, isn't that a thought?  Some people on here really follow a bigot like BUSH.\n\nAnd to those of you who can't get a job, I am really surprised..you can start your own business!! OMG, there are endless options.\n\nI run my own business, and when I was in the job market, I never had a hard time getting a job.  Get skills, people skills and an education, both work hand in hand and if you posess both there is no reason to blame the illegals for your lack of opportunities.
302258
If you earn 60K ,why can you not spell immigrant correctly? And in case noone else noticed this Jackleg asked earlier"what is a gringo?"
749036
Great, good luck finding a job...;
894290
Gee I wonder who will do all the dirty work when all the illegals working for scraps have to leave? I don't think that any Hazelton citizen will do the job. Who's going to cook great mexican food? Who's going to clean the mess in the restaurant? They may not help the econmony much, but they do the work that nobody else wants to do. I sure as hell wouldn't want to clean tables all day for less than minimum wage, while living in crappy housing.
681314
Thank you Thank you Thank you for the question....and the last answer that you provided. Your analysis is dead on perfect.\n\nThese entry level jobs (a pessimist calls them dead end jobs) could easily be done by those sitting on the couch collecting welfare.  But they will not work because they don't have too.\n\nIn addition to Immigration reform we need Welfare reform too.\n\nAs far as blaming employers...that is absurd.  First MOST are small mom and pop companies that can not afford a payroll department to verify documentation (you can buy a SS card for $150 on many street corner in some neighborhoods.)\n\nSo we put grandma in jail and let the worker go?\n\nI was in San Diego last year saw a news story about a farmer who walked into a unemployment office and offer them all a job if they showed up on the farm the next day...only one did but quit by noon.
1145594
Try living in a FEMA trailer for 8 months because there aren't enough workers to rebuild your home.  Then when you find a group of Mexicans that do the job, beyond your expectations and at a reasonable cost, tell me if you care about their "legal status"!!!
1084773
You have explained this very nicely.  Savings that the employers reap by hiring illegals at far lower costs are not passed onto the consumers.  It is kept by the employers as higher profits.  Illegals are not causing our food to be cheaper.  This is a myth!
480524
Gointo town and look in stores.  A job opening is bound to turn up.  Just if you don't mind minium wage.
415662
Mexican illegals are almost in mayority poor people without education. People like these are always being taken advantage of by U.S. business owners getting the low paying jobs no american would accept, and by the Mexican goverment allowing them to travel in most cases risking their lives to the U.S. so that they earn some dollars and send them to their families. And sooner or later, directly or inderectly, mexican polititians get the money. Now that few dollars multiplied by millions of mexican workers becomes Mexico politiians´third largest income. \nThe illigal immigration is wrong, but it has been this way everywhere ever since there are borders; all rich countries have a poor neighbor, and they allways permit a number of "illegal immigrants" to cover all the unwanted jobs but when the immigrants become too many, then it becomes a problem. There is a price to pay if one wants a cheep labour force and the U.S. is paying it. White americans have not learned from the past, when they bought africans to be their cheap labour force once, and now they have had to learn to live with african americans, and that was the price. This time they permitted the Mexicans for cheap labour and now they they will have to learn to live with a large number of latin american immigrants. Now, remember that americans were illigal immigrants in the northern part of Mexico but with the help of a corrupt Mexican president payed a small sum, managed to keep all that territory that became California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. How much has the U.S. really gained from those states that were once Mexico??? Did Mexico not lose??\nNow, that is the way it is, and borders are the way they are,  but at least some U.S. citizens should not be so cruel when they talk about "illegal immigrants". These are just poor desperate people trying to survive economicaly since they have no posibility in their "pueblitos". A "funny" thing is that the cruelest comments I´ve read seem to be from descendants of poor immigrants.
949473
From my experience, most Mexicans work extremely hard for very little pay. I happen to work at the PHL airport where the workers are predominantly black, and also extremely lazy. Just to get the majority off their asses to do what they're paid to do is nearly impossible. The airport (specifically a certain airline) recently started hiring mexican workers and the entire operation has turned around. They know what work is, and don't sit around acting like the world owes them something.
381330
Illegals ARE the reason Americans can't find work!\nIf these people are not happy in their own countries than why come here & wave their coountries flag? By being an illegal they force wages down for our legal citizens; big business being what it is (all about the money).\nOur government is selling us & our country to line the pockets of the powerful. Send the illegals home let them apply to come here like so many immagrants have done & continue to do. It's the ones we don't know about that can hurt us!!!
599646
there are always people that are desperate and need a job, illegal or not. there is a lot of extremely poor people in the united states.
463064
Get a Job, there's nothing free
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.
200087
Have you looked into filing for unemployment?  There are many misconceptions about when people are or are not eligible.  Even if you think you aren't, you might be eligible.\n\nYou could try a temporary agency.  There are many out there, and they require varying levels of experience and skills.\n\nYou could also try finding a casual labor job.  Construction contractors and farmers (as well as many other types of businesses) frequently hire casual labor on a temporary basis.  Because there is very little paperwork and few obligations for the employer, these positions are easy to get if you can find them.\n\nAlso, if you have things that are worth money that you don't absolutley HAVE to have, you could try selling them or getting a collateral loan from a pawn broker to tide you over until you find work.
389731
Perhaps you're not looking in the right places. If you don't have any experience you might not be picked up by the big places right away, but you can definitely find a job. There are usually marketing jobs out there and well paid ones at that.