No matter where you go, there you are.
Why not, we built thousands of miles of highways without depending on immigrants. Now if they want to build 700 miles of fense while paying well below minimum wage then yes, we would need immigrants to get that done. See there is this myth that there is work that Americans will not do. It's not that Americans are afraid of work, they just refuse to do it for less then legal wages. If the only work I could find was cleaning toilets I'd do it if it paid minimum wage or better but I'll be damned if I'll do it for a buck three eighty per hour.
OK .... "we built thousands of miles of highways" but since then they have been resurfaced repeatedly by folks who just got here
and ......." they just refuse to do it for less then legal wages" but that work still gets done by people who will work for minimum (and therefor legal) wage. The sad truth is that immigrants will be more than happy to work for less money than most people think they should be earning to do the same job. They show up day in and day out for what some of us would call shit jobs because it is a step up from where they started .......... and the boss who is paying them minimum wage instead of the $20 the job is worth so he can call it all legal ......Well, his family has been here for at least 3 generations and the first one busted it's ass every day in a series of shit jobs for minimum wage so they could give their kids a shot at something better, and those kids worked there ass off to send junior to school ........ so junior could be as kind and as fair to his employees as his grandfather's boss was to him. Then junior will try desperately to teach his son a good work ethic while the new junior chases some local tail around in dad's mercedes and after he knocks one of them up dad will give him a job as a supervisor. He will eventually inherit the business and after dad passes away he will wind up selling all the equipment to a third generation immigrant so he call pay his own son's lawyer bills or retire when he is 50.
and the whole time every single one of these groups will believe that they are the one cog in the big machine that nobody else could possibly do without ..... and the cycle will start again
.......or maybe i'm just stoned
I'm not trying to sound unpatriotic or bash immigrants! I smoke to much pot for that. Turns out that weed makes me think-n-stuff
I'm kinda curious as to what you were doing during History class in school, but you are probably as stoned as I, so nevermind...Why not, we built thousands of miles of highways without depending on immigrants. Now if they want to build 700 miles of fense while paying well below minimum wage then yes, we would need immigrants to get that done. See there is this myth that there is work that Americans will not do. It's not that Americans are afraid of work, they just refuse to do it for less then legal wages. If the only work I could find was cleaning toilets I'd do it if it paid minimum wage or better but I'll be damned if I'll do it for a buck three eighty per hour.