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Stealing jobs? Did you get turned away last time you applied to harvest tobacco leaves?
There are unlimited visas for legal, foreign farm workers as it's not a career job for Americans and is only seasonal work. Nice try though. Only 2% of illegals are doing those jobs anyway. American construction, landscaping, restaurant and many other blue collared workers got laid off or had their wages reduced due to cheap, illegal labor. If an American applies for any of those jobs today with a greedy employer they are discriminated against if they don't speak Spanish because they already have only illegal Spanish speakers working there and only a couple of Hispanic American workers so that there is no language barrier in communicating with these illegals. They'd also have to accept reduced wages from what they once were due to millions of cheap available illegal workers to fatten the employer's wallet. You might want to learn something before spouting nonsense!
IRS defends paying refunds to illegals who never filed taxes
The IRS is defending its decision to let illegal immigrants claim up to three years’ refunds on income even if they never paid income taxes, telling Congress in a new letter last week that agency lawyers have concluded getting a Social Security number triggers the ability to go back and ask for previous refunds.
I can only speak from my own small corner of the US, but I live in a rural, farming community. The town I live in has been changing quite a bit since about 2000 where farmland has been being sold and large homes are being built. This has changed the demographics of the town where you now have wealthier, white collar workers along with folks who have had families and land in town for generations.
In the late summer/early fall, when local crops are being harvested (mostly corn, tobacco and grain), none of the local kids want anything to do with that work. They would rather apply for work at the local grocery store or one of the fast food places. Driving around, I never see younger kids working those field. Granted this is just a small slice of the US, but I really doubt that there are that many jobs being "stolen" from US workers.
Only 2% of illegals are picking crops and there are unlimited visas for legal, foreign farm workers. Illegals are mostly working in construction, landscaping, restaurant and hotel jobs, etc. Americans are more than willing to do those jobs for a fair wage. Sick of the farm worker excuses when that isn't the industry that most illegals are working in.
When I worked in food service in northern Virginia decades ago I had many illegal coworkers. 6 adults and 6 kids live in a rented 3 bed room home. 5 adults work and 1 of the ladies watches the kids. 1 of the coworkers told me his goal was to send enough money back to El Salvador to buy a farm. At the time in his town a worker got the equivalent of $2.50 for a day's wage. Every $100 he sent home represented 40 days of labor.
That was how they were able to send money home. They got 2 meals at work. Many weeks we only got 1 day off. No married American lived that way. But the illegals kept the wages low. The gringos got a few bucks more but it was barely a livable wage.
You forgot to factor in the over $100 billion a year that illegal aliens cost us. They are no bargain for mainstream gringos or anyone else. Only their greedy employers benefit from them.
Only 2% of illegals are picking crops and there are unlimited visas for legal, foreign farm workers. Illegals are mostly working in construction, landscaping, restaurant and hotel jobs, etc. Americans are more than willing to do those jobs for a fair wage. Sick of the farm worker excuses when that isn't the industry that most illegals are working in.
This whole post was about migrant workers, not undocumented immigrants. The vast majority of migrants are legal and working on farms.
This whole post was about migrant workers, not undocumented immigrants. The vast majority of migrants are legal and working on farms.
As I said, the lines are often blurred between legal and illegal in these articles. I do however agree with you that the vase majority of migrants working on farms are here legally on visas.
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Trump didn't get **** done in four years besides let close to half a million Americans die and set record deficits.
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Only 2% of illegals are doing those jobs anyway. American construction, landscaping, restaurant and many other blue collared workers got laid off or had their wages reduced due to cheap, illegal labor. If an American applies for any of those jobs today with a greedy employer they are discriminated against if they don't speak Spanish because they already have only illegal Spanish speakers working there and only a couple of Hispanic American workers so that there is no language barrier in communicating with these illegals. They'd also have to accept reduced wages from what they once were due to millions of cheap available illegal workers to fatten the employer's wallet. You might want to learn something before spouting nonsense!
