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The number of raids they do isn't the problem, the issue is that they never arrest employers. It's a big joke, employers can turn around and rehire illegals the next day, nothing ever happens to them. All the raids are just red meat for the base. If anyone was serious about stopping illegal immigration they would go after the people who hire them.
Even so most of the illegals aren't doing seasonal farm work. All these employers claim they can't get American workers even above minimum wage, can't use H2A. I don't take it at face value. What I believe is many of them just want easily obtainable cheap and desperate workers. There's no seasonal work or farm work near me and there are so many people who would have to be illegals.
This is what YOU said, and it is what I was responding to:
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If you can't get Americans at a fair market rate, then you don't have a viable business.
So if that was intended to be a serious comment, then most of our agricultural system is not viable.
This is terrible and bad business for people like me. I can hire illegals and I don't have to pay American wages, contribute to Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance nor do I need to follow safety regulations or give my employees time off or breaks.
I am so thankful for Chuck and Nancy, who are trying to make sure my endless supply of cheap labor!
Just the one example of the Cloverhill Bakery in Chicago. Before the raid it was 90% Hispanic to 10% black employees and after it was 90% black to 10% Hispanic according to one black employee. Watch the video of the hard working black lady(CITIZEN I might add). Hard worker; 12 hours a day 5 or 6 days a week. 600 jobs added at one location!!
Between fall 2017 and summer of 2018 there were 3500 ICE raids on workplaces!!
The article I read said 35% of the workforce was lost. Chicago immigration raid leaves bakery scrambling to rehire after 800 workers lost - Chicago Tribune About 35 percent of the workers at Cloverhill Bakery had to be replaced, according to Zurich-based Aryzta AG. The company, which makes baked goods for fast-food chains and supermarkets at a bakery in Chicago's Galewood neighborhood, said the employees were supplied by a job-placement agency that faced federal audits earlier this year. It also has a warehouse in Cicero.
This facility has a history of being investigated by ICE - not just under Trump. The investigations started in the Obama era.
Nearly half of Maryland’s crab houses have no workers to pick their meat. Where are the Americans who want these jobs. It’s not about politics, it’s about keeping your business alive.
There are people who want the jobs, including nasty jobs - just not at the pay being offered. Have you ever noticed cities manage to get garbagemen without having to resort to hiring illegals. Why? Because they pay them adequately enough to attract workers.
Recently a local school district was bemoaning the lack of substitutes at a public board meeting and in the reasoning given was not the fact that they were paying them less per hour than Walmart or McDonald’s was offering brand new employees according to signs on their doors. That had to be brought up by a parent sitting in the audience. You have to pay a reasonable wage to get workers.
I think any employer caught with illegal workers needs to be fined the average one year salary (prevailing industry wage) and taxes they would have paid an American for each employee found.
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The article brings up a point that might not have been talked about in the forum of how companies use temp agencies to hire illegals. How many times have we heard if they do not go after the employers who hire illegals we will never solve our immigration problem. This is how big employers get around the immigration laws is through fly by night temp agencies who are the fall guy if there is a raid.
What becomes of the temp agency after the raid? their biggest and maybe only customer was raided and the temp agency just lost their profit of of supplying 800 employees. The temp agency doors are boarded up and they are out of business, maybe. Or the temp agency just changes name and location and contracts with same big company and the illegals are back to being employed.
The temp agencies are the big loop hole that big companies implement to avoid breaking immigration laws. Did you notice in the story the company rep did not want to disclose the name of temp agency? Hmmm, wonder why?
Just the one example of the Cloverhill Bakery in Chicago. Before the raid it was 90% Hispanic to 10% black employees and after it was 90% black to 10% Hispanic according to one black employee. Watch the video of the hard working black lady(CITIZEN I might add). Hard worker; 12 hours a day 5 or 6 days a week. 600 jobs added at one location!!
Between fall 2017 and summer of 2018 there were 3500 ICE raids on workplaces!!
Yet many of the pro-illegals claim that Americans are inferior workers to "immigrants" either illegal or legal. It's utter BS. It's all about exploiting the latter while not offering decent wages to Americans.
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