- Banned
- #21
I find that people making these arguments about legal v illegal immigration to be selling a pig in a poke.
Let me see if I understand you:
You are "for" legal (sic) immigration. According to the anti-immigration activists "legal immigration" is code for citizenship. So you have no problem with immigrants provided they went through some legal process aimed at requiring people to become citizens.
Now, let us forget the fact that this year alone at least 780,000 people will take the oath and become citizens. Radical Muslims, communists, atheists, murderers, social outcasts and all manner of people you would find to be objectionable under most circumstances are welcome... they did it "legally" as you are so fond of calling it.
These 780,000 people (this year alone) can now be a part of the body politic, having the privilege of voting and then drawing out of Socialist Security, Medicare, Medicaid, AND voting in their version of what they think America ought to be.
Meanwhile, you get your boxers in a bunch because low wage people come here and work jobs that Americans obviously don't want... don't try to "school" me until you've spent a couple of weeks here with me. Here the whites and the "legal" Americans don't apply for the jobs; they don't want the jobs; they won't work them when they get them. ANYBODY who thinks differently is welcome to spend a couple of weeks with me and I will shatter your presupposition all to Hell.
But, I will not give up trying to get the substance of your argument.
Americans do those jobs already. It is only in high immigration areas that they get pushed out of that job market by being undercut.
They do NOT apply for them here. Rather than B.S. the posters, take a little of your time to come here, see for yourself and try to prove me wrong. It will beat the Hell out of you misleading people with something I can easily disprove.
We advertise on Craigslist, with the Dept. of Labor, in churches, in local papers, even with flyers. Where you live may be a different demographic and maybe you live in Heaven where every white dude don't think he's a contractor just because he's got a ten year old truck and some cheap business cards.
I live in a rust belt city.
I've worked many of those jobs, that you say, Americans won't do.
I've worked along side of Americans, white and black and other.
If Americans aren't applying for those jobs where you are, it's because they have been pushed out of the market.
No sir. They were not "pushed" out of the market (you're back to blaming the foreigners.)
The anti-immigrant lobby with their atmosphere of the pee test, blood test, hair sample, MVR check, credit check, criminal background check, driver’s license, National ID Card / E Verify, Socialist Surveillance Number – ooop. “Social Security Number,” birth certificate, occupation license, credit card, firearms license, proof of insurance, DNA sample, fingerprints, and access to your social media accounts forced Americans into a second class citizenship.
Between that and the government / medical community getting the population strung out on legal drugs, most people cannot pass the background checks. A youthful indiscretion keeps many people from being able to function in a normal society and Socialist Security, welfare, unemployment, etc. are enough to keep a sizable number of people addicted to the government dole.
780,000 foreigners will become legal citizens (sic) this year and they will get jobs that Americans could get except for the fact that most foreigners won't have a record... Why? Because not every offense in other countries is a crime. And, even if it were, you cannot depend on foreign governments to always tell you the truth. IF you could depend on them, you would not have gotten the Tsarnev brothers nor that Muslim couple that went on a mass shooting spree in San Bernadino, California.
The insanity started by the anti-immigrant, deport 'em all, build the wall fanaticism is the real culprit. There is a problem; the current "solutions" (if you can call regression) is no solution at all.
Plenty of jobs that don't require drug testing or background checks.
Couple of years ago, when I was making more money, we had a series of cleaning ladies come in, weekly.
We paid 30 bucks an hour, and they were all Americans.
You go to a city that has been flooded by immigrants, legal and.or illegal, and those Americans would be undercut by Third World Labor.
I don't know what land you live in, but where I'm at even day laborers are drug tested and background checked. Again, rather than to have this back and forth B.S. you should spend a couple of weeks with me and I can put a rest to what you're slinging on this site.
There are NOT plenty of jobs where one can skirt background checks. Everybody from temporary agencies to fast food places and from construction sites to Walmart all do it in Georgia.