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Originally Posted by njbchbum
Madelaine Amee - Have you thought about and considered the other side of the coin? Are you aware that teens who want to babysit now have a hard time doing so because families are hiring third world nannies who can introduce a new cuisine to the kitchen and teach the kiddos a new language? Did you know that the teens who used to count on the $ made from planting and harvesting the potato crop in Idaho and Maine have been replaced by foreign born planters/pickers who get the $ that used to help local families survive? Do you agree with the President's intent to increase the # of Visas for foreign professionals so they can be hired in the U.S. despite the numbers of American professionals who are currently on unemployment? How many illegals do you think will come out of the shadows and voluntarily pay taxes rather than stay back and continue to send those $ back home so more family members will have the funds to pay another coyote to bring them here? The illegals come to this country fully aware of the conditions they will face and they take the chance anyway. Why should we provide for them before we provide for our own? Hiring an illegal is tantamount to taking money away from an American worker and family.
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I just read an article in the Wall Street Journal that said Idaho was having to use convict laborers to harvest potatoes because there were not enough migrant workers. I could not find anything about Maine's potatoes but saw that the Maine blueberry crop is dependent on migrant workers. These are usually illegals and are paid in cash under the table. Under the table means cheap labor for the corporations that hire them.
Do you honestly think that all the construction workers who built our homes in The Villages were legal? How about our maintenance workers?