Why is it that the people here in the US are so adamantly against illegal immigration, or at least using the excuse of “them furreners takin’ our jobz” as the main weapon of their reactionism?
Honestly, I don’t get it. The only jobs which they pick up are the lowest-wage jobs (cotton-picking, janitorial, construction, etc.), ones which the majority of us “natives” wouldn’t go for in the first place. They act like “OMG, those are our jobs! We’re not educated for those type of jobs, but those are still reserved for us Americans!”
But why the fuss over jobs?
What if, the majority of us who scream so loudly over jobs are the same ones who have to work two jobs and two incomes just to get by?
Is this really the rich country that it has been posited to be for so long?
Think about it. A rich country would be replete with jobs, jobs, jobs all over the place.
If that were the case, then we sure as hell wouldn’t be raising a stink over Cubans and general Caribbean Latinos trying to cross the Gulf in order to get to Miami. We wouldn’t be bitching about Mexicans trying to cross through tunnels and deserts to get to L.A. or San Antonio.
I mean, look at the United Arab Emirates. They get lots of immigrants from India, Pakistan, the Philippines, etc., and they sure aren’t complaining!
So come on. There are far more legitimate issues concerning illegal immigration to worry about (rudeness, crime, not speaking the same language as you do (/sarcasm), etc.). This just isn’t one of them.
The fact that I find is so funny is the blaming the vicitum type scenario they have step up in this country. The real “culprits” so to speak of the “illegal immigration” problem are the employers that are exploiting a cheap and vernable work force. But yet you always hear about the immigrants taking the shitty jobs for next to nothing, with no benefits getting in trouble but never the business owners. That was a huge issues after Katrina, because these contractors brought in all these Central American Laborers to work construction, and then wouldn’t pay them or make them live in deplorable conditions for very high prices.
But then our country has a history of never really coming down on the white collar thugs that are the real perpetrators of the problem
my general problem is that I was born and raised here, and I have to pay taxes. These people slip in under the radar and don’t. I don’t care if they don’t care about anything else other than them contributing to the financial welfare of the nation.
you wanna job? cool! but make sure some of that goes toward the government.