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Strategies & Market Trends : The Financial Collapse of 2001 Unwinding
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To: robert b furman who wrote (3523)10/3/2019 2:49:04 PM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (1) of 13834
 
One other point should be clarified. England does not have a generous social services network.

For immigrants, the appeal of England is the opportunity to work "off the books" which doesn't exist in continental Europe.

If I want a job in Germany or France, I need an ID, an "internal passport", which has to be verified. This effectively shuts out illegal immigrants from all employment in Europe. The only career path for undocumented immigrants in Europe is crime.

In England, as in America, homeowners and small business owners gladly employ people under the table and pay with cash. For his entire career Trump has routinely employed undocumented workers and then complains that they come here. Trump actually flew Polish iron workers into the US as tourists to build Trump Tower, and then dumped them without paying them other than their return plane ticket.

There's also the internal immigrants inside the EU, like those who have moved from Wisconsin to Texas.

Many, many Polish citizens hold service jobs inside Germany, but in England they can work as unlicensed building contractors - just as many undocumented Latin American immigrants do in America. In most of Europe, you can't operate as an unlicensed contractor. Polish immigrants also provide most of the labor on British farms and in many hotels.

The US and UK have created their own "attractive nuisance" which only they can fix with controls which prevent illegal employment.
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