Any fast food joint would hire a legal, English speaking teenage over an illegal immigrant any day of the week, so that's just BS. Teenagers aren't working these days, and that's why the chains resort to hiring immigrants.
As for construction, if you're an unskilled laborer, maybe you should consider learning one to make yourself worth the wage you're asking for. But again, major construction companies would rather hire Americans over illegals, but they can't get them.
I work in shipyards all the time that struggle to find quality labor and end up with non English speakers as a last resort.
Mexico isn't an example of a country I want our standards to be held to.
So it's the residency of the illegals that you're worried about? I thought it was the taking of jobs? Canadians take TONS of engineering and manufacturing jobs. Go to any auto plant in MI and you'll find them. But you're worried about fast food work.....
Well as far as fast food goes that's not what's happening in Washington. You have people that are willing to work 40 hrs a week for minimum wage. That makes scheduling a lot easier for a business that's open 16 hr a day. 2 shifts and done. Doesn't mean they can't get high schoolers at all. It's just when you have to work around schedules of students it's easier to just hire someone that will give you 40 hrs.
As to me being unskilled well that is a big junk for you to make considering you don't know me at all. I ran a drywall crew for a summer before I couldn't take it anymore. I am not fluent in Mexican Spanish but understand and speak enough to get by. I would listen to the crew of questionable "citizens" all with SSN btw talk about how they got a DUI last night and needed to go down and get new documents so they oils skip all the legal ramifications that follow them. One of the reasons I left that companies was they would "hire new workers" same guy different SSN, DL, and other docs, when they became aware of the situation.
In my current construction job we are constantly going in a cleaning up messes left by "low price Central American born" contractors. Some times it's just finishing the job. But most of the time we are going in and ripping out the work done because it's just completely wrong and dangerous. Seriously unsafe, fire hazards, fall hazards, one 2nd story deck collapsed that was "built strong" to hold a hot tub. Thank god nobody was in it or one it at the time. It was 4x4's in pier blocks with 4x6 beams every 8'. Not sure what the building code in Florida is like but that doesn't hold water up here in Washington even without a hot tub.
As to Mexico being an example of a country. I wasn't saying I wanted to be like them. I was pointing out that they are at least smarter than we are. They allow Mexican citizens to be involved in Mexican politics.
American like most countries has founding documents. Our constitution and bill of rights lay out the basic way our government is supposed to be ran and the basic rights of every citizen. We extend these rights to people legally in the country as well. The 1st amendment you have previously accused my of never reading says more than freedom of speech. I laughed we you failed to point it out telling me I have never read it.
So I have attached a photo of the original language form archives.gov. You will note it say the people. I guess it's up to each individual to determine who "the people" are. I assume they are writing about American citizens. But that's just me.
I don't see anything in there that says citizens from other countries can come in to America and protest our government. Perhaps you being an expert on the first amendment can point that out to us.
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