Thread: Texans, Mexicans worlds apart on immigration

Texans, Mexicans worlds apart on immigration
Texans: Economy hurt by illegal migrants; Mexicans disagree


08:18 AM CST on Monday, February 20, 2006
By ANGELA SHAH and DIANNE SOLÃ

"I have no opposition to those coming into our country legally," said Lillian Townsend, a former school librarian in Magnolia. "I think they are an addition to our country. There are a lot of jobs that the Caucasian people won't do."

I can't wait to hear Bush put it this way.

What a load of crap!

Many sectors of the U.S. economy, including construction, depend on low-cost immigrant labor, legal or not.

Before the invasion, construction was NOT a 'low-wage' field.

"It's work that native-born Americans won't do," he said. "The pay is lower than what native workers want."

I was happy to do that work for almost 20 years, and for the first 10 the pay was just FINE!

Certainly, many sectors of the U.S. economy – construction, hospitality, restaurants – depend on low-cost immigrant labor, legal or not.

That should read "...many OWNERS of the US economy..."

Mexico is America's top trading partner, second only to Canada.

OK, what is it, top or second? More disinformation.

"You have an interesting number of political leaders in Mexico, who are now promoting the idea that Mexicans in the U.S. are the key to U.S. economic gains," he said.

Yeah, we've got the same lying bastardos up here!

Take it from someone who has been involved at the heart of manufacturing in Texas, for the last 30 years, I have seen first hand over the past 12 years, how cheap immigrant labor, employed by greedy CEO’s, and Board of Directors, to replace American workers, has decimated whole companies, and driven them into bankruptcy, because of poor quality workmanship, and a decline of company sales.

I have witnessed several companies, including two that I worked for, bite the dust.

And this propaganda that “they are only taking jobs that American workers won’t do, is total BS. It’s a lie put out by Big Business, the Bush administration, and is perpetuated by the news media, so they can justify their actions to hire more cheap labor, and keep the steady flow of it coming across our borders.

When an American worker is called into the employers office and given the choice to take a 50% or better cut in pay, or to find another job, 99.9% of them will hit the road, so if you call that a job that Americans Won’t do, your right.

When a middle class blue collar worker, who’s financial existence is based off of $16 or $18 dollars an hour, along with a spouse who also has to work a full time job, to have close to a normal life, suddenly find themselves faced with trying to survive on $8 dollars an hour, or flipping hamburgers for a living, things start deteriorating fast, suddenly the bills fall behind, the savings for the kids college stops, and you find it harder and harder to deal with medical expenses. The Quality of Life Declines.

What’s going on in this country today is not in the best interest of this nation.
As we drift into a Third World Country, plenty of Rich People are Getting even Richer, and the poor are growing, in leaps and bounds.

Foreign Trade policies, along with Corrupt double dealing Politicians are responsible.

Is this what we pay them a salary for?

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