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Not to be inflammatory- but it seems (and I travel quite a bit) that there is a disproportionately large portion of Africans (ethiopian, somalian, etc) working at many airports. Again my sample may be skewed but it's a pretty big sample.
Is there a political reason perhaps that foreign born or recent immigrants get a pipeline into Airport employment?
It's labor that doesn't require much formal education. I'm guessing a lot of poor, undereducated African immigrants decide to take the jobs because 1) they can do them and 2) they are willing to work for whatever they are offered.
Is there a political reason perhaps that foreign born or recent immigrants get a pipeline into Airport employment?
These aren't executive level positions. There's no "pipeline" for jobs of that level. You apply, they make sure have a pulse, and you start. They keep you on the payroll until you stop coming to work.
And regardless, at the very least they're going through the same FBI background check and fingerprinting that all employes go through.
It's labor that doesn't require much formal education. I'm guessing a lot of poor, undereducated African immigrants decide to take the jobs because 1) they can do them and 2) they are willing to work for whatever they are offered.
I always thought those jobs paid more than they did outside the airport.
Not to be inflammatory- but it seems (and I travel quite a bit) that there is a disproportionately large portion of Africans (ethiopian, somalian, etc) working at many airports. Again my sample may be skewed but it's a pretty big sample.
Is there a political reason perhaps that foreign born or recent immigrants get a pipeline into Airport employment?
I don't fly much but I have noticed that many of those people you mention are taking the illegal Mexican jobs at the meat packing plants of western Kansas. Those Somalians are becoming the largest minority in that area pretty fast. I don't blame them for getting the hell out of Somalia though.
Not to be inflammatory- but it seems (and I travel quite a bit) that there is a disproportionately large portion of Africans (ethiopian, somalian, etc) working at many airports. Again my sample may be skewed but it's a pretty big sample.
Is there a political reason perhaps that foreign born or recent immigrants get a pipeline into Airport employment?
Airport doesn't need to be capitalized by the way, unless it's at the beginning of the sentence.
No, it's probably just your airport. Most of everyone that works at my local airport have been living in the area for generations. Most of the non-locals are Spanish speakers, many, if not most or all, are Puerto Rican (aka, American by the way) anyway.
Airport doesn't need to be capitalized by the way, unless it's at the beginning of the sentence.
No, it's probably just your airport. Most of everyone that works at my local airport have been living in the area for generations. Most of the non-locals are Spanish speakers, many, if not most or all, are Puerto Rican (aka, American by the way) anyway.
Apologies. But it comes off as snarky as heck on your part.
However, being as I'm the product of a classical education, I'll keep my spelling correct and grammar within standards for American English for the most part. If I let it slip a bit on this informal forum, apologies.
I was thinking BWI, IAD, DCA, DFW, DTW, Denver, New Orleans even PHL.
I mean, I don't think you'll be buying a BMW any time soon as an airport luggage handler. I'm pretty sure even TSA screeners make like $10/hr.
What probably happened as well (especially with BWI, DCA and IAD since the DC area has a sizable African population) is that a few Africans came here, got jobs at the airports, found them to be decent jobs and told their family back home. Word gets out and before you know it everyone in their social network wants to come to America and get that kind of job since they heard it was a decent job (and probably a lot better than whatever they had going on back home).
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