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sparkle_motion:
Today is the big walk-out for hispanic americans. Is anyone noticing a difference at your jobs? My good friend works in the HR department of a large, mostly hispanic company and he said they are having MANY people not come into work. The company is not going to punish them, which I think is fair.
RouxB:
I'm not supposed to be here today in solidarity but I'm waiting for a guest and can't leave til she gets here. Not too many people in my office are boycotting-sad because immigration is a huge issue here.
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delalluvia:
Yeah, I read about that. The walkout had zero affect on my job or my clients or the offices in government that we deal with.
I thought it might when I went out to lunch, since the news articles talked about restaurants closing down, but apparently there are plenty of Asian and Middle Eastern immigrants who chose to go to work. I had no problem at the malls or at a restaurant.
Immigration is a big issue here, too, but many of the legal immigrants are pretty incensed at the illegal immigrants and not sympathetic.
JennyC:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on May 01, 2006, 07:32:28 pm ---Immigration is a big issue here, too, but many of the legal immigrants are pretty incensed at the illegal immigrants and not sympathetic.
--- End quote ---
I agree with Del. I, myself, is a legal immigrant here. I won't say that I am not sympathetic to illegal immigrants, but my view on the issue is different from the people who rally today.
I support tightening boarder control and other ways to crack down illegal immigrants. The word “illegal” is used for the simple fact that there are legal ways to come here, and if you don’t go through that process, then it’s illegal. Of course, there are many other reasons why boarder control is for anyone’s benefit. The pressure should also be put on the employers who hire illegal immigrants as they are a very important part of the enforcement effort.
It’s undeniable that there are huge labor needs in US market that can’t be satisfied domestically. There are jobs that people here normally do not want to take or won’t take for the pay they offer. To simply deny the needs is just being an ostrich burying your head in the sand. Washington needs to get their acts together to provide ways for people to come here legally to fulfill those vacancies. Unless they make some drastic reform/change in the immigration process, currently there is no way they can handle the workload from the proposed “Guess Worker” program. The whole immigration process was so under funded and short staffed; to say it’s a mess is an understatement.
The illegal immigrants put a lot of pressure on the education and healthcare systems. So the cheap labor you get from immigrants is not so cheap after all. IMO, the employers who hire immigrants, particularly in the low paying jobs should share part of the burden, this burden in turn will be shouldered by the end consumers and society as we will see price rise for some services/goods. It may not be a bad thing since it’s probably more fair in terms of how their work should be valued after all.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: JennyC on May 01, 2006, 09:52:13 pm ---
--- Quote from: delalluvia on May 01, 2006, 07:32:28 pm ---Immigration is a big issue here, too, but many of the legal immigrants are pretty incensed at the illegal immigrants and not sympathetic.
--- End quote ---
I agree with Del. I, myself, is a legal immigrant here. I won't say that I am not sympathetic to illegal immigrants, but my view on the issue is different from the people who rally today.
I support tightening boarder control and other ways to crack down illegal immigrants. The word “illegal” is used for the simple fact that there are legal ways to come here, and if you don’t go through that process, then it’s illegal. Of course, there are many other reasons why boarder control is for anyone’s benefit. The pressure should also be put on the employers who hire illegal immigrants as they are a very important part of the enforcement effort.
It’s undeniable that there are huge labor needs in US market that can’t be satisfied domestically. There are jobs that people here normally do not want to take or won’t take for the pay they offer. To simply deny the needs is just being an ostrich burying your head in the sand. Washington needs to get their acts together to provide ways for people to come here legally to fulfill those vacancies. Unless they make some drastic reform/change in the immigration process, currently there is no way they can handle the workload from the proposed “Guess Worker” program. The whole immigration process was so under funded and short staffed; to say it’s a mess is an understatement.
The illegal immigrants put a lot of pressure on the education and healthcare systems. So the cheap labor you get from immigrants is not so cheap after all. IMO, the employers who hire immigrants, particularly in the low paying jobs should share part of the burden, this burden in turn will be shouldered by the end consumers and society as we will see price rise for some services/goods. It may not be a bad thing since it’s probably more fair in terms of how their work should be valued after all.
--- End quote ---
Well said Jenny. My great-grand parents were legal immigrants. Due to the influx of illegal immigrants, I've seen my parents neighborhood housing values fall through the floor, it become dangerous to go out at night or to even park your car in front of their house. Me and my family have been blockaded in our own driveway, unable to get out because our illegal neighbors were unaware that it was bad form to block your neighbor's driveway. I've been in two car wrecks with illegal immigrants. One carload of young Hispanic men hit and run leaving me and my bashed car stranded on the road, the other gave me false insurance papers, another carload totalled my mother's car - a 15 year old was dirving, without a license and without insurance. My neighborhood was quite a place growing up. Despite city ordinances against it, we had goats and chickens and a whole yard full of fighting roosters in our neighborhood, courtesy of our illegal immigrant neighbors.
The local public school system has been overloaded and burdened with children who do not speak the language, the local city ordinance enforcement officers and social services play peek-a-boo with abusive or neglectful parents who do not supervise their children, nor force them to come to school, yet when social services or truant agencies show up, they do not open their doors or when cited, simply move. The local community hospital failed and had to be propped up with additional funding - read taxes of legal immigrants and actual citizens - due to the overwhelming flood of illegal immigrant needs...
There are plenty of illegal immigrants, I'm sure, who simply want to come to the U.S. to improve their status in life and take advantage of the opportunities to better themselves. However, there are just as many who are here for the social services they cannot get at home and the quick pay and do nothing to be good neighbors or good citizens.
All the above are true experiences of me and my family and needless to say, we are not sympathetic in the least.
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