Thread: Technlogy is going to start to replace illegal immigrants

We hear often of the need for bringing in immigrants from the Third World as an excuse for the illegal immigration and amnesty.

The past history of the United States has been more the story of capital spent on mechanical invention as a replacement for labor than an ethnic succession. Right now an illegal alien has a likelyhood of being employed in the industries of agriculture, landscaping or in construction.

The relative ease with which sourcing manual labor can now be done through employment of the illegals has held back use of existing innovations. Much of what illegals are used for can already be done by machine.

The Roomba vacuuming robot that my sister uses replaces use of manual labor from a human maid. Likewise there are now numerous other labor replacing devices which are not within a household budget but which are the more efficient if there is enough call for them.


The labor intensive manual task of digging ditches for instance can be replaced by mechanical ditch digging. A small landscape contractor would rather hire a day laborer to dig ditches and not spend $50,000 on a purchase of a sporadically used machine.

If the ditch digging machine is operated by a specialist and the specialist has cellular then the landscaper can call in the ditch machine for one or two hours replacing a whole team of temp hand labor. A tool rental firm can tie the larger number of the landscapers together with ditch digging specialists with GPS and logistics programs.

If the amount of American labor declines or labor available in America declines our ingenuity and the reknown creativity of our business people will make up for it.

Richard!! Excellent point and I agree 100%. Illegal immigration and excess legal immigration retards our technological advancements and of course was one of the purposes....to devance us to a Third World environment....in a race to the bottom.

Thank you for making this point!

we have never needed illegal mexicans or anyone else- BIg business did because they wanted to keep wages down and working conditions- marginal - at best-
and now the illegals are taking jobs from those in america who do want them- its just the employers who prefer a group who are both young and exploitable-

But what I do not understand is why they would prefer this labor even if its cheap when they are unskilled; very short; do not speak English; can't understand instruction; and you have no idea if they are going to rob you, rape you, kill you, steal your car, steal your tools....total strangers....it's the oddest behavior of Americans that I've ever witnessed.

The Americans must be on drugs or doing something illegal they don't want Americans involved in.

Hey, maybe that's what they're doin'. Maybe they pick 'em up at the Day Labor Centers to run drugs through the espanol neighborhoods.

Something isn't right about this. It's just too bizarre.