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Originally Posted by tryreading  What about the legal hispanics that work for less? They exist. I know several of them, they work on my crew. What if legal immigrants are working a job you get $16 an hour for, and they do it for $8? Then you have no argument.
Are you sure all of the Hispanic people who came to work in your area were illegal? If they were, a well placed phone call might have protected your job security and income. If certain people come around asking questions, a lot of your competition just disappears.
Now, the guys that work for me aren't actually working for less. They get the same $10 an hour anybody would get. But the people I've hired who are non-Hispanic don't stick around. To a person that has been true for me. That doesn't prove overall that they are doing a job no white/black American would do, but that's the situation on the ground in my experience. I have an all Hispanic crew (4 guys), not because that's what I want, but because they are the people who stayed on. |
Your paying your crew only 2/3rds of what everyone makes in your area, yet you wonder why only immigrants stick around?
I used to start my unskilled helpers that toted buckets around at $12.
Your paying skilled tradesmen $10?
For me, this completely validates my argument that Americans do want the jobs, they are simply not willing to work for the same wage that the high school kids make in their part time job at burger king.
Burger King starts at $9.00 per hour.
You train for decades to learn and master a skill and you would think that you should make a bit more than a job someone can fully master in 5 minutes.
Your situation is a bit different though.
You clearly stated that your workers are legal.
So you are clearly not doing anything wrong in a legal way.
But when you operate a business with only 2/3 the over head of your competition I still have to wonder if your putting out the same level of quality or service.
You also live a lot closer to areas that have large amounts of legal immigrants.
In my area there are no clusters of legal immigrants.
Most all of them were illegal. My city bussed out thousands after rounding them up. To where they bused them to, i have no idea.
Now they are mostly all gone. But the housing crisis wont allow us to recover.
It will take many years if not a full decade just to sell all of the empty homes.
Empty homes with leaky roofs and terrible paint jobs.