Does anyone have more of a problem finding a higher paying job, because they can pay immigrants less?
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In NJ there is a huge problem with technical people coming here legally on H1-B visas and driving down the pay for many people.  There are so many people with technical Masters degrees that are now driving limos and selling furniture because lower paying H1-B visa people have taken their jobs.\nThe Senate bill, which just passed has a huge increase in the number of H1-B visas allowed into this country.  These are all legal jobs that help corporation pay low wages to highly technical people and put middle class Americans out of work.
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To screw us all, of course.  \n\nFor people who claim to be "for the little guy" they sure aren't showing me anything.  \n\nI'm a far cry from wealthy, but all the "social program" garbage they push for really screws me.  Why should I work extra hard to make sure some halfwit, who did nothing more than spend ten minutes on her back, has a roof over her head?  Take the kid, and give her a card board box.  Not my problem.  \n\nHealthcare for all?  I worked hard and got a job with great health benefits.  Before that, I hadn't been to the doctor in six years, yet you didn't see trying to get my hands on someone else's paycheck to get there.  I'd lose quite a bit that I don't have to lose in a system like that.\n\nRaising the minimum wage is a joke too.  I make over minimum wage because I work hard.  I'm currently in school, which I had to wait to attend because I was a "dependent" student, yet I watched welfare bums, the same age as me get reimbursment checks because they were given too much financial aid.  Anyway, I still have two more years before I'll have a bachelor's, but I still make more than minimum wage.  If minimum wage is all your making, perhaps you should consider the possibility that something is wrong with you.  Seriously, all it takes is a little effort.  So we raise minimum wage, then what?  Businesses have to raise prices, so we're back at square one.  Almost.  Except now, between handing out raises to other employees, and the business loss due to higher prices, those of us who make more than minimum won't get raises.  Or, what about the guy who is hired somewhere at minimum wage, and works his way up to say, $7?  Isn't it a slap in his face to watch a new hire come in at a wage he worked his way up to?  \n\nThey want to see our country flooded with illegals.  I worked with a girl who's old enough to remember immigrating here legally.  She's proud to be here, and be able to say she did it the right way, but she feels insulted that these people don't have to do the same.  If your country sucks, make it better, don't come ruin ours.\n\nThey want to see this country destroyed by terrorists.  It makes me sick to watch them insult our military and sympathize with our enemy.  If you disagree with the war, that's fine, but insulting our troops is revolting.  These are men and women who have chosen to protect us all, knowing they may not come home, yet the liberals call them criminals, or stupid, or whatever else they say without thinking.  And the real criminals?  Oh yeah, they want to protect them.\n\nSo, I guess what I'm getting at is....they want to turn is into...Canada.  Now there's a scary thought.
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Have you ever tried to get visas into other countries?  Some are just as difficult.\n\nThe general fear which pervades many Americans (and we're not the only ones) is that new immigrants will upset the balance that we have.  It will drive up unemployment, and people who live here will  be replaced by cheap labor.  \n\nNow they have the "potential terrorist" excuse to also increase their immigration fears.
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By all accounts, we are putting them to work.  And that's fine with most people, especially the people who hire them.  So there is no problem.\n\nBut problems were made.  Because they became more numerous, they became more visible, and so they got more notice.  Eeek!  An immigrant!  Two, three, a dozen, right over there!\n\nNow we have to sort out frightened people's "concerns" against the economic benefits of having them here to do our crop picking, lawn care, babysitting and other low-end jobs.
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Are American employers ready to pay a living wage for these for these jobs, when there is no longer a pool of immigrants willing to work for substandard wages?
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for me not. ( i am talking about salaries in IRAN )\nI think the salary is not enough for the person with these quaifications.
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Yeah it bothers me.I've done a lot of hard labor jobs.\nWhat bothers me more though is if a man (any man,legal or illegal) does a job he deserves fair pay.These people who hire illegals do them a disservice and the rest of us one too.I've seen companies that were doing alright fire all their crew hire Mexicans (for about half the wages)and with in a year they are buying a bunch of equipment and building new shops.\nI think it's crap ,but that's greed.It's not that Americans won't do the work,folks just want to get more profit.
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Well I guess I am one of the few Hispanics to have a managerial job it's taken alto of time to get where I am at right now. I think the more education u have u will get better jobs.
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I am a human being.\n\nI am Mexican, the same as many of the illegal workers in the USA.\n\nI would like that the work i want and i have, could be closer to my family.\n\nI am underpayed (i couldn't resist, and copied from catnip, sorry, you express exactly how i feel!!): "I am not paid enough to make a decent living, even though I have plenty of skills that employers seem to want."
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The reason is that, they are considering both sides of the coin. Ilegal aliens work in restaurants (cooking, washing dishes, cleaning bathrooms, etc, for low wages). The truth is that employers don't want to hire U.S. Citizens because U.S. Citizens want more money. So, let's say that they hire U.S. Citizens for 50% more in they paycheck than Ilegal aliens. Than increase would be reflected in the price of the goods or services. Can you imagine drivers,cooks,construction laborers, janitors, plumbers etc?\nWe complain about the problem, but we don't want high prices on most products and services.\nThe politicians are evaluting the problem, but most likely they have to come with some kind of guest worker program, to help businesses succeed and not fail.\nOtherwise who is going to do those jobs for minimum wages?\nAnother thing is Taxes. Ilegals pay taxes for groceries, gasoline, insurance, utility bills, licence plates, etc.\nCan you imagine how much money those people generate to most States?. Believe or not Millions of dollars that help the economy of the United States.\nWe definitely want that problem solved without a high price.
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YOU ARE A WISE PERSON! To point out that its not an issue of them taking our jobs! because..HOW HARD IS IT REALLY TO GET A JOB AT MCDONNALDS WIPING FLOORS? i think alot of the racial americans are ashamed because the immigrants who work hard put alot of lazy americans to shame
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At the moment immigrants are a large portion of our work force in this country.  This contributes to our Gross National Profit.  Because they are here doing jobs that Americans will not do it helps businesses make a profit and stay in business.  A lot of people want to complain that they are in our country taking jobs away from us, but I find this to not be true.  If Americans would do any job that was asked of them and not expect a doctors wage for a janitors job businesses would not look for this cheaper workers.
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Not really.But It doesn't take that much to be tolerant  towards immigrants.I remember what it's like to be dirt poor and I've made a lot of compromises.It's easy to have principles when you're not desperate and hungry trying to survive.
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Well I am from South Africa and I must say while I was studying, I was offered more jobs in UK then in my own country. Yes South Africans can work very hard, but I think is also because for us any circumstances is more acceptable then working your a** off and not receiving efficient pay.
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Probably.  I haven't noticed any tangible problems from immigration -- other than problems purely stemming from the fact that we've declared a lot of it to be illegal.  As far as I know, the economy is better and lots of things are less expensive as a result of immigrant workers.  I don't think many Americans are eager for many of the agricultural and service industry jobs that many immigrants perform.  If there is an unemployment problem, it has much more to do with outsourcing overseas, and the general state of the economy (to which immigrant labor is a benefit, not a burden).\n\nAs far as making this country what it used to be -- an ignorant, bigotted, Indian-massacring, slave-owning backwater -- I think that's kind of crazy.  But one *good* thing that you *would* need -- is lots of immigrants.
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Those citizens that are out of work are aware that there are jobs out there.  Employers hire whoever is qualified for the job.  If that person is a foreigner with an actual legal work Visa, more power to them!  Why don't you go worry about the illegal immigrants?\n\nI used to work in the welfare department.  Very few of those people were willing to take jobs and get off welfare.  I got disgusted with humanity working in that place, watching people sit on their butts and actually say no when offered jobs.  One person told me she was earning more in that welfare check than she would at a minimum wage job.\n\nSend your brother down here to New Orleans.  We'll put him to work.  Employers here can't get enough people to fill the job openings.
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If I was looking for work and needed a job, YES!!! I had to go back to McDonalds at one point in my life to surrive..So if it were offered to me yes..Are some people picky about jobs..yes, but there are some honest hard working Americans that need a job and would take something to keep from losing their house or car..and that was a positon I was in..and some local farmers wouldn't hire me..instead hired some immigrants..which landed me back at the Golden Arches