A big Valley newspaper's editorial board expressed the usual disinformation and pretense of illegal immigration supporters in a recent editorial.
The only innocents in the immigration issue are the American taxpayers. Employers using illegal aliens are experiencing exactly what the Clinton-appointed Jordan Commission, chaired by Congresswoman Barbara Jordan (D-Texas), said they would.
The commission predicted that using low-wage illegal alien labor would: Depress wages; stifle industry innovation; mask true production costs; drive a generation of American workers from low-skill industries; and cause the displaced low-skilled citizens to become a burden on the social welfare system. All this came true.
Now that taxpayers have had enough, these employers find themselves stuck with no illegal alien labor, an inadequate cost structure, and a young workforce unaccustomed to the labor demands.
It wasn't always this way. I worked in the Mississippi agricultural industry as a teen, and my cousins followed the harvest from Florida to Michigan as adults. Furthermore, meat processing employment was once highly sought after.
The related problem is illegal immigration has kept agricultural wages largely static for 30 years, and caused poultry processing and meat packing jobs to pay a few dollars an hour less than 30 years ago.
For humor, we now have the Justice Department demanding from Alabama information Justice sued to block the state from collecting. What a progressive comedy of errors!
Fred L. Pinkney
Gilbert
samkat posted at 9:09 pm on Fri, Nov 18, 2011.
Good comments and on target.
Dale Whiting posted at 5:36 pm on Sun, Nov 20, 2011.
Fred,
What seperate those who critize measures like SB1070 and Alabama legislation is not addressed by your description of the problem. It's accurate. What seperates us in the means to address the problem.
Care to take a crack at that? As samkat observes, your comments [descriptive in nature] can be on target. But addressing solutions to these problems is another matter entirely.
VofReason posted at 3:15 pm on Mon, Nov 21, 2011.
OK Dale I will bite. Here is a solution. When illegal aliens go in for Rent assistance, welfare, foodstamps, free education, free healthcare, etc etc. They should track them back to their employer and furnish the the employer with all the costs of having that illegal immigrant in America. Pretty soon, the minimum wage or lower with no benefits that the employer has been getting by paying looks alot more like what it costs to hire (wait for it) Americans. Soon after, Socialism (tax payers paying for the actual cost of illegal labor) ends and the problem fixes itself. No fence needed.