In her article, "Going Soft On Illegal Labor Is A Betrayal Of American Workers Like My Family," Lyndsey Fifield noted recently in a post on X that her "parents' landscaping business was perpetually blown out of the water by local competition who exploited cheap, illegal labor while my parents hired and trained high schoolers (and ex-cons)." She received a lot of responses of people relating similar stories, adding:
It might not be a landscaping company. Maybe for you it was a dad in carpentry or an aunt with a cleaning business or the beach town job you expected your teenager to get this summer that no longer exists. Whatever the business is, it seems thousands of Americans have similar stories to share.
Discussing her parents business in more detail and how it was constantly undercut on prices by competitor that relied on cheap labor provided by illegal aliens, Fifield continues:
Future generations will study the reverence liberals have for the heroic migrants from Central and South America who bravely came to pick our fruit and hang our dry wall while simultaneously sneering with contempt at the poor rednecks who do the same work.
While we’re on that, let’s settle the nonsense narrative that Americans “won’t do this work.” Americans did this work for generations, and though they’re barely hanging on, many are still doing it now. We must encourage young Americans to see the value and personal benefit of doing these types of jobs again. Deporting our illegal workforce is an important part of making that happen, but since that alone won’t end the stigma people have against manual labor, maybe common sense will.
And it is a myth that Americans won't do the work. In Stephen Kruiser's morning briefing from a couple days ago, he notes that "[t]he only semblance of an argument that the Democrats have ever had about illegal immigration is that the illegals are here doing the jobs that Americans won't do. Because of the historical lack of will to undertake the task of mass deportations, it was an argument that was difficult to disprove." But with the ICE raid on Glenn Valley Foods which decimated their workforce, we have the counter-evidence. Kruiser observes that within a few days, the facility was up and running again with new workers. And Kruiser throws out this last bit: "There is no compassion for the plight of the poor migrants (as they refer to illegal immigrants), only panic about losing a labor pool that they like to keep poor and available. I'm not saying that they're modern-day slaveholders by any means. I am comfortable, however, with saying that they're somewhat plantation adjacent."
What Senator Padilla won’t tell you is that a nation full of low IQ poor black and brown people ruled by a small elite oligarchy is the entire plan. If you are rich and part of the proper class, life will be good in the new “America”. If you are not? Well life is going to suck. Your lot will be barely above subsistence, never owning your home, barely able to afford food, filling your days with meaningless work or perhaps not even that, and the rest of the time will be consumed with streaming entertainment, video games and drugs.
The fastest way to break the "wealth pump" that makes this future likely is to reverse the flow of immigration.
This is actually why I had such a difficult time getting into the workforce. You need crappy, bottom-rung jobs (especially manual labor) when you're just highschooler with no experience or skills, but unless you can be hired illegally to work for less than minimum wage (or your parents have favors owed them) no one wants to hire you.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in high school I had a job at a fast food place, worked for awhile doing janitorial and other clean up work at a mechanics garage, and did mowing and other yard work in the summer. I'm pretty sure these jobs--at least for teens--are mostly gone.
DeleteYup. What time is it? Time to deport o'clock.
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