Also want to add that this is what Mike Rowe has talked about. Today’s young adults are not learning hands-on skills to get a job to make good money. They’ve been told by their parents that they shouldn’t languish in a factory for decades and should go to college. But what are those colleges teaching them? Things like how to hate America or learning diversity or gender studies.
I like Mike Rowe and “Dirty Jobs”, but he needs to come to a state like NJ where those jobs aren’t even offered to Americans. Like the meat-packing plants where Americans were replaced with illegals (who were then replaced by the same Americans after ICE raids), Americans will do ANY job - but not for horrible wages/no benefits. Contractors using American workers are underbid on every job, and they are then forced to 1) close up shop, or 2) hire illegal aliens.
Also, in high cost, high-tax states like NJ, the $15 per hour minimum wage will be inevitable because that is how much it will cost to get an ILLEGAL to do the job; several years ago they were already getting $10/hour cash. It is a job-killer, but the alternative we are experiencing is even worse: the flight of productive young Americans who can’t afford to stay here. That starts a deadly spiral where no new company even tries to move in because there is no talented labor pool anymore.
I want to see Mike Rowe crash a jobsite filled with illegals.