Posted on 05/20/2003 8:43:51 AM PDT by BeerSwillr
I've had it with illegal aliens, illegal immigration, and the complicit attitude of US immigration policy!
My 16 year old has been looking for a summer job for the last 3 months, what he's found has been surprising. Not only are there no summer jobs available, there are no jobs available, period, for someone with no experience.
So you say he's not looking hard enough? That the jobs are there, you just have to find them. HA!
All the entry level, low skill jobs that would normally be taken by teenagers and young adults during the summer are being taken by illegal immigrants, at least here in Texas. The few places that don't hire illegals have to contend with 10 or more applicants for each open position.
So who is this hurting you ask? Just a few teenagers who will be back in school in a couple of months? Just a few teenagers that will contribute little to the overall economic picture? WRONG!
You know the answer. It's hurting everyone. Teenagers would spend almost every penny they earned, contributing immensely to the overall economic health of the US. They would be in the malls, movie theaters, and restaurants spending their hard earned pay, leaving their parents free to spend their money on something else.
The illegal aliens? They used to maintain a low profile. Now, they don't bother. They can be seen everywhere; mowing lawns, planting trees, roofing & framing houses, working at the lube shack, pouring concrete, gathering at several official and unofficial day worker hang-outs in the mornings (when it would be extremely easy for immigration to swoop in and arrest them.)
Where you don't and won't see them is out spending their money (except for at Wal-Mart.) You don't see them at Bennigans, Chilis, Tony Romas, Cinemark, the mall, car dealerships, etc.
Know why?
They don't have any money to spend on the US economy because they're sending everything except a small subsistence back to Mexico.
The illegals are not here to help us or the US economy. Anyone that says they are here to take jobs that US citizens don't want is being disingenuous.
They're siphoning off millions of dollars a year from the economy. Not only by taking jobs, but a host of other ways; education benefits, medical assistance, government assistance, thievery, robbery, drug dealing, you name it, they're involved in it.
And what is the Department of Homeland Security doing about this? They're putting on a dog and pony show.
They're outlining major new methods of monitoring ports of entry, airports, etc. with biometrics, fingerprinting, radar, facial recognition technology, and who knows what else, while at the same time doing nothing to monitor thousands of miles of open space where, apparently, it is relatively easy to cross into the US.
It seems to me that simple reconnaissance flights over that vast unmonitored territory would be able to identify these border violations and put a stop to, or at least slow, this illegal invasion of our country.
The Department of Homeland Security is largely ignoring the issue. Illegal entry into the US continues unabated across our borders.
It makes me sick.
What can we do about it? Other than mew weakly and post articles like this on the large wasteland that is the internet?
Contact your elected officials and let them know what you're thinking. Let them know you will hold them accountable. It's all in our hands.
http://www.senate.gov/
http://www.house.gov/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
No one blames the illegals, they blame the Feds.
Blind optimism.
I haven't seen anyone suggest a halt to immigration. Only a halt to the inflow of ILLEGAL migration.
"No one"? More of that blind optimism. ;-)
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
This has amazed me for years.
I've always been told that you have to do the job first before you get the raise.
Oh, you mean like the other thousands of people that want to enter our country legally, by the book, that have to wait years to enter legally? Only to have hundreds of thousands of others spit on our laws and sovereignty and push themselves to the front of the line?
I've always been told that we are a nation of laws, and you have to enter legally before you can expect to live here and get a job and enjoy the benefits of America.
Obviously, this isn't true.
That's exactly what I mean.
Line? What line? By the looks of thngs the illegals don't believe there is a line.
And by the looks our government gives them the government doesn't believe there is a line either, other than the one at the voting booth.
The fact that they are here is enough for me. They are competing for the jobs that kids on summer break or just out of high school used to fill, and it's affecting not only my son. From reading some of the responses, it's happening in other locations around the country as well. It is only going to get worse unless something is done.
I can only give you anecdotal evidence. Look around and you will see it, or you can go here.
---Servers on the line at Luby's, illegal immigrants.
---Staff at local fast food establishments,illegal immigrants.
---Car wash staff, illegal immigrants.
---Staff at the local flower nursery, illegal immigrants.
---Roofers, illegal immigrants.
---Lawn care, illegal immigrants.
Throughout high school I had these type of jobs. Now the kids can't get them. Granted some kids may not want these type of jobs, but many do.
So, since the illegals are here they have taken what opportunities there may have been.
And not only that but they are weakening our economy by sending a large majority of their earnings back home to Mexico rather than spending it here.
They came for the teenagers jobs....
We can all figure out the rest.
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