Thread: A liberal asks will stimulus jobs be for illegals?

...well it would only be a matter of time before even the liberal wing of the Dem. party starts realizing that the warm-fuzzies of the illegal alien myth just isn't so when Americans including Democrats, their neighbors, their friends, their families are losing their jobs and it won't be so "warm and fuzzy" to find out that news jobs are being handed out to illegals....gee, who would've predicted that?


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Will illegal immigrants take the stimulus jobs?

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Will illegal immigrants take the stimulus jobs?
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January 25, 12:53 PM
by Jim L. Cunningham, DC Progressive Examiner
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Will Obama insist Americans get the new infrastructure jobs?
Bush was fond of saying of illegal immigrants that they do the jobs that Americans won’t. (I’ve always felt that had more to do with what companies pay for those jobs.) Now, with so few jobs out there, many Americans are willing to reconsider what they’re willing to do, how hard they’re willing to work and how much money they’re willing to work for. Many are willing to consider new career options – any option, as long as they can get a job. They’re hoping to get the infrastructure jobs that will come with the stimulus plan.

But will they?

Roads need repaired. Bridges need to be built. Wind turbines need to be put up. Schools need to be renovated. There will be public transportations projects. Thousands, perhaps millions of people will be newly employed by the companies and contractors that win the bids to take on these projects. But who’s to say those businesses will be employing Americans at decent salaries?

Greed is a powerful motivating force and these employers may be tempted to hire illegal immigrants, as they often do, for these labor-intensive jobs with the intention of saving money on labor and thereby increasing their bottom line. These projects are a potential gold mine for businesses big and small. Why would they waste that money paying high wages to Americans when they can get illegal immigrants to do the work for less, and without benefits? What makes us think these businesses will act in the same interest that the stimulus is intended? Greed, after all, did get us here.

If, ultimately, American taxpayers are supporting and paying for this stimulus under the promise that it will create jobs for American workers, shouldn’t they receive a guarantee that they will, in fact, go to American workers? Will there be fine print in the bill that requires companies that win these contracts to employ only American citizens?

I say this now, not because I hate illegal immigrants – I don’t. (I’m for giving them a quick path to citizenship and getting them on the books as soon as possible.) I say this now because I can imagine the repercussions if Obama fails to include the “Americans onlyâ€

Originally Posted by legalatina

... And, like most things that conservatives introduce into the political lexicon, it gets picked up by the mainstream media. You hear it repeated on the Today Show, the Daily Show and the Tonight Show.

Yeah, the mainstream media has such a conservative bias!! Are you kidding me?!?!?

I don't know what planet that author is living on. If only conservatives had that much influence. Real conservatives, mind you, not the frickin' neocons.

What a paranoid little liberal that guy is. No, what would happen is the extremely liberal-biased media would simply ignore it and continue their sloppy love affair with Lord Obama, just like they have been.

For example, our new head of the Treasury doesn't even pay his taxes, but who cares in the liberal MSM? Isn't the IRS part of the Treasury Dept.? So the head of the IRS doesn't even pay his own taxes!!!!

Well, he blew his case of being a patriot by saying he has nothing against illegal immigrants. From that point, it showed me that he does not respect US laws. With that line alone, either he is playing to all possible criticism or he is plain stupid. Illegals don't want citizenship; they want money and whatever else we can give them.