>Plus wealthy Bushies are the most eager to hire illegal aliens.
LOL! What a crock of sh*t! So now in your little dim, small mind, farms, restaurants and construction sites are all controlled by "wealthy Bushies"?!
I know that you and AS are 'close' but why don't you do your own research. You embarrass yourself with your ignorance. There are more and more major industries with low paying jobs that are hiring illegals. In fact, they are paying Latino 'coyotes' to bring them across the border. Given that its illegal and rather underhanded, one can only assume there is a Republican behind it. Its a bit unfair but all of us have learned that birds of a feather flock together. And we all know how dishonest and corrupt your brethren are in DC. Did I mention they are incompetent as well?
Here.....do some reading.......you might learn something:
"Illegal alien workers from Mexico, Latin America, and Asia enlarged their foothold in these jobs in the 1960s and early 1970s in regions heavily affected by immigration. Some of these illegal aliens stayed only until reaching a savings target and eventually quit and returned home. For example, some of the braceros who stayed illegally after 1964 later returned to Mexico. However, some opened restaurants or garment shops in the United States, and many of these pioneer migrants found entry-level employment in U.S. hotels, factories, and service firms in major urban areas.
In the 1970s, two events turned this pioneer immigrant foothold into a dominant presence in many firms. First, the Civil Rights movement raised the expectations of many unskilled American workers, while the War on Poverty programs provided previously unavailable employment and training options or a better economic safety net for some of the American workers who had traditionally accepted hotel cleaning, restaurant, and light manufacturing jobs. Second, illegal aliens began coming to the United States in greater numbers and a diverse group of labor-intensive businesses expanded after the economy recovered from the 1973- 74 energy and food price hikes. Many of these small businesses had pyramid job structures: a few optimistic professionals with a concept or idea employed local clerical and sales workers in the front office and unskilled illegal aliens in the backroom warehouse or factory. Other small businesses, such as ethnic restaurants and landscapes services, were begun by immigrant entrepreneurs who employed friends and relatives.
The proliferation of such small businesses further increased the demand for unskilled workers. However, as American workers continued to quit low-wage jobs or demand higher wages, some employers turned to the immigrant workers who had stayed with the firm, promoted them to supervisory positions, and left it to them to recruit new workers. These ethnic supervisors — some of whom had acquired legal status — turned to their friends and relatives to rill vacant jobs.
In California, the southwest, and a growing number of Midwestern cities, as American workers quit, their replacements were drawn increasingly from Mexican villages. Small businesses that had suffered from the high turnover of American workers soon realized that illegal immigrant workers gave them, at least for a while, the same reliable workforces as those enjoyed by mainstream businesses, but without raising wages or improving labor standards.
The low-cost illegal immigrant workers hired and supervised by ethnic foremen were a welcome relief to the often shaky businesses that depended on them. A furniture or shoe manufacturer in high-cost Los Angeles could be assured of a virtually unlimited supply of eager minimum-wage workers who could be trained in one day and closely supervised to assure quality work. A restaurant or hotel could offer its customers superior backroom service without increasing its production costs because illegal immigrants proved to be more loyal and dependable than the mixed crews of Americans they replaced.
Businesses became dependent on illegal immigrants because they realized that they could get the employee loyalty and reliability of high-wage and mainstream businesses, even at minimum wages and without fringe benefits and investment in professional personnel management. The secret to such work-force changes lay in the employer's decision to turn work-force recruitment and supervision over to an ethnic foreman who could recruit illegal alien friends, relatives, and countrymen as workers. Once an initial ethnic work crew was assembled, the workers' information network perpetuated the recruitment and training of new workers with no advertising, screening, or training costs to the employer. As illegal immigrants learn more about the U.S. labor market, they are more prone to quit one low-skilled job for another because wages are higher or the work is easier. As settled immigrant workers acquire some of the traits of American workers, employers must either upgrade wages and working conditions or tap into a more recent immigrant network. The more recent recruits usually spend from several months to a few years on the job before they too begin to get restless.
Network recruitment and ethnic supervision change the nature of the workplace, making it even less congenial to the American worker. The language of the work place changes from English to Spanish or Chinese. Most of the illegal immigrant workers are friends and relatives, and the workplace culture changes to reflect their shared experiences, such as growing up in a Mexican village. Frequently, the business owner often loses touch with the workers because he or she cannot speak their language, and the owner becomes dependent on a bilingual supervisor to be an intermediary. The network recruitment and ethnic supervision system is an efficient way to hire low-cost workers. New employees can be recruited quickly, trained at little or no cost to tile employer by friends and relatives already employed, and laid-off during business downturns. As long as ethnic supervisors remain employed, tile work force can be reassembled or a new workforce recruited if business picks up. If an entire work force is apprehended by INS or discharged an employer can pay a coyote (labor smuggler) $300 to $1,000 per worker for a new work force to establish a new network recruitment system.
Field research confirms tile existence of kinship and village networks that educate workers abroad about U.S. job opportunities and wages.10 These networks provide information and sometimes financing for tile trip across tile U.S. border, acting as private employment agencies and training schools for new arrivals.
Initially, tile pioneer migrants from abroad are young men who come to tile U.S. as target earners, hoping to save enough money for economic advancement back home. However, as migrant networks "mature," pioneer migrants find better jobs and gradually help friends and relatives move up in tile U.S. labor market. Better U.S. jobs are harder to give up, and some migrants send for their families. The arrival of women and children extends job networks into new workplaces, encouraging more families to come to tile U.S.
continued..................
cis.org |
