Mass immigration is big biz' way of keeping wages down.
The labor participation rate--the percentage of working age Americans who are working or looking for jobs, is now only about 67%. Employers looking for workers need to raise wages.
This is not a criticism of immigrants. They are good people. It IS a criticism of employers, the Koch organization, big biz, etc., who work to keep wages down, yet pay themselves hundreds of times what they pay workers.
Absolutely on target, David H. The people who hire "illegal immigrants" never suffer from breaking the law. Only the immigrants, so the high end restaurants, meat packers, and everyone in between can keep getting low wage workers. It is an insidious system and ought to be morally outrageous and legally "out". My two cents worth.......
But what I am very worried about is the possibility that Biden will lose, in part because people don't like major change, including seeing their towns become Spanish speaking. As a 12 year old, I lived in Paris for a year. I'd always been interested in foreigners at home. I'd go up to them in Harvard square, and ask them where they were from, and I didn't understand why the Parisians never spoke to me. Years later, I came to understand it. Paris was flooded with Americans. Our border towns are in the same situation, and it's not helping the Democratic Party, which encourages the migration.
Like the Irish with the "dirty, garlic-smelling, superstitious Italians":---who practiced their religion in the streets with processions (cf. Robert Orsi, The Madonna of 115th Street; popular religion/people's religion at its best.) Communities get really dislocated, etc. until they get through the process---which seems to be harder or more contentious now---but the historian in me says, only it only seems less so in the past .....
Immigrants are needed to fill jobs. They work, pay taxes and stay out of trouble.
In 1980, meat packers were Black. They were earning middle class wages, thanks to decades of organizing.
By that decades end, meat packers were mostly immigrants, toiling under atrocious conditions, for barely above minimum wage.
That change was repeated in other trades and jobs over the last 40 years, which is why workers' wages barely budged.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html
Mass immigration is big biz' way of keeping wages down.
The labor participation rate--the percentage of working age Americans who are working or looking for jobs, is now only about 67%. Employers looking for workers need to raise wages.
This is not a criticism of immigrants. They are good people. It IS a criticism of employers, the Koch organization, big biz, etc., who work to keep wages down, yet pay themselves hundreds of times what they pay workers.
Absolutely on target, David H. The people who hire "illegal immigrants" never suffer from breaking the law. Only the immigrants, so the high end restaurants, meat packers, and everyone in between can keep getting low wage workers. It is an insidious system and ought to be morally outrageous and legally "out". My two cents worth.......
But what I am very worried about is the possibility that Biden will lose, in part because people don't like major change, including seeing their towns become Spanish speaking. As a 12 year old, I lived in Paris for a year. I'd always been interested in foreigners at home. I'd go up to them in Harvard square, and ask them where they were from, and I didn't understand why the Parisians never spoke to me. Years later, I came to understand it. Paris was flooded with Americans. Our border towns are in the same situation, and it's not helping the Democratic Party, which encourages the migration.
Like the Irish with the "dirty, garlic-smelling, superstitious Italians":---who practiced their religion in the streets with processions (cf. Robert Orsi, The Madonna of 115th Street; popular religion/people's religion at its best.) Communities get really dislocated, etc. until they get through the process---which seems to be harder or more contentious now---but the historian in me says, only it only seems less so in the past .....