Thread: Calderón: Congress can find common ground on immigration

"......, many Mexicans will go home," and what do we do with the ones that didn't? Until we have a full and final solution, we do not have a solution! The seasonal migratory idea did not work long term, that one has been done! Some, Mexicans and Americans, do not take the lessons of history seriously. That is an obvious fact, look who is in Congress and who elects them.

When Barbara Jordan, a black representative from Texas, investigated immigration for President Clinton, one of the things that she learned is that when foreigners are brought in to do certain jobs, those jobs become associated with foreigners.

We can break the cycle of foreigners. With field work for example, if we cut off the "temporary" workers, wages will rise. Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez negotiated pay that was in the $7/hour range. That would be in the $20/hour range today.
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Originally Posted by vistalad

When Barbara Jordan, a black representative from Texas, investigated immigration for President Clinton, one of the things that she learned is that when foreigners are brought in to do certain jobs, those jobs become associated with foreigners.

We can break the cycle of foreigners. With field work for example, if we cut off the "temporary" workers, wages will rise. Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez negotiated pay that was in the $7/hour range. That would be in the $20/hour range today.
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Americans first in this magnificent country

American jobs for American workers

Fair trade, not free trade

I never heard that, vistalad, thank you for that information. It's true too isn't it? Something I hadn't thought about before. That would also make American workers reluctant to apply for jobs where a lot of foreigners are employed, too, wouldn't it? They wouldn't have the normal work place camaraderie would they, no common language, no common culture, no common interests. They might even be targets for pranks and jokes or meanness since they aren't of the same nationality. Whether that would be true or not, that could well be the perception of American workers making them less comfortable to apply for work amidst a lot of foreigners, especially if they figure out most of them are illegal alien lawbreakers. Who would want to work alongside illegal alien lawbreakers?

Americans deserve better than this. Americans are legally entitled to work alongside Americans where they have a daily sense of belonging instead of being the stranger in their own workplace in their own country. I'd like to ship all these pro-immigration fools in Congress and the White House over to North Korea or Afghanistan or hey, a Maytag plant in Mexico or an Apple Computer plant in China to work for awhile and see how much they like working with foreigners.

Oh yes, and one more thing, your comment about Chavez and his movement for farm workers, yes, that would be around $20 an hour now and although not being paid today for field work because of immigration, many of the fruit pickers on the West Coast make about that much. The season is short for the fruit so the rates and bonuses are much higher. I researched this several years ago and most fruit pickers were making around $18 an hour, could be more by now. Of course, they were all illegal aliens earning the dough.