100,000’s of the “original field workers” sitting idle in GA. Why can’t they be hired? —— Oh, I forgot that work would be beneath their dignity.
A few years back I was in town and stopped at a light. I looked over to see a white kid about 14 years old and 300lbs inhaling and ice cream cone.
In the yard was a middle aged hispanic man pushing a lawn mower around.
Some estimates are that there may be as many as 20 million illegal aliens in America.
There are at least 15 million unemployed people in America.
Doesn’t it appear that we are importing a servile class to do certain jobs? And why are we as a society doing this?
Why do we have to listen to lectures about urban youth unemployment, and hear that there are “no jobs” and all that, when there are jobs out there?
Yes I know farm work and manual labor is hard work. Yes I know some people don’t want to do that sort of work. But for otherwise unemployable young people, for example, this sort of work could give them a stepping stone to the workforce, and better things in their future.
Anecdotal evidence is that places such as fast food, which used to hire lots of teenager and young adults, now hire people who were not born in this country. Why is that?
Why are so many jobs such as office cleaning now done by people who were not born in this country? There too, these are jobs that those with no skills could go to work everyday, do a necessary job, earn a paycheck, and set themselves up for better things for the future. But instead, certain jobs are dominated by those not born in this country. Why is this?
Years ago, many black women worked as domestics. Now relatively few do. That’s hard work, and not well paying, but here too, people not born in this country seem to dominate this category too.
The article is about farm work, and how illegals and/or those born elsewhere dominate that field, but the same concept applies to many other areas.
And to me, the frustration is that many of these jobs done by foreign born, legally here or otherwise, is that even unskilled poorly educated Americans could do such work.
I don’t know what changed with work ethics of people, or if certain employers prefer foreign born, but, there is a connection between the number of chronically unemployed people and the numbers of foreign born workers in this country.