. The restaurant had to pay a college student $10.00 an hour to take the job. At that time that was a pretty good hourly rate for that area. Granted there were no benefits but for a college student it paid more money than a lot of other service industry jobs. It wasn't too much later that the city was flooded with illegals who worked for a lot less an hour than a legal citizen would accept and a lot of legal citizens lost jobs.
They aren't doing jobs Americans won't do, they are working jobs Americans won't do for the wage being offered. Pay a decent wage and Americans will do the work. Of course that will mean the product/service will cost more and that is unacceptable because everyone wants everything as cheap as they can possibly get it. That is why nearly everything in the stores are made in China.
The argument that illegals are only doing jobs Americans won't do is just to justify the questionable morality of people who are willing to let illegals come into the country so they can be exploited for their willingness to work for lower wages.
My tirade is getting a bit long but one more observation. When I started working for the State of Tennessee, the people that cleaned the offices were Americans. The contractors discovered that illegals worked for a lot less and suddenly there were no more Americans cleaning the building. A lot of American citizens lost jobs to illegals because of greed by employers and Americans demanding cheaper products and services.[/QUOTE]
And yet with all of the so-called job loss due to illegal immigrants stealing our work, we still enjoy an average of 3% unemployment. I don't see how the illegals are hurting our economy or stealing work. How about a kid making $20 an hour to work at Mcdonald's? It's no wonder a Big Mac and fries are around $10 a meal. There's work out there for anyone who looks for it. The problem is we have many that would rather stay home and collect unemployment instead of working. Too many people believe they are owed something in life, and I say that we owe them nothing.
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