His immigration policy....
- Thread starter bamaEER
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Imagine how much those landscaping companies would have to pay if all those Hispanics weren't here to do the work.
I used to work closely with the catfish industry in the gulf states and mexican labor is the whole ballgame.
Guys on the left need to understand that all this unfettered, untrained immigrants can only compete for those unskilled jobs and thus drive down the cost. Not bad for the consumer but bad for the high school drop outs and those with modest intelligence. As long as they keep coming, wages will stay low. That's why from 1925-1965 you had to have a skill to immigrate into this country.
I visited many meat processing plants across the USA and I was shocked to see almost all Hispanic labor. I expected to see it more prevalent in the south,midwest and southwest but its was the same in the northeast and northwest. Never saw it very much in Canada.
For the US catfish farming industry, its the only way they can compete with asian imported catfish.
Canada is too cold for them.:cool2: Maybe the Canadian healthcare system isn't good enough for them
Up here there are fairly high numbers of temporary seasonal workers from Mexico and Jamaica for the most part. Many of them work on the farms just outside my small town. They are an often friendly bunch when you see them in town at the grocery store etc...the numbers will increase over the next few years too from 50k to 100k . They make slightly less than minimum wage ($12 hr I think?) and apparently the money they make goes quite far toward supporting the family back home. Permanent lower paying jobs are often occupied by recent immigrants from the more Southern regions of Asia...after a while many of them manage to springboard to professional positions and more $$$...the younger ones anyway.
How do I know when the Mexican crews hit town in spring BTW? All the good salsa (Herdez, La Costana etc) is gone from the grocers shelves...seriously!
Fairmont was a founder in the company I worked for. Used to stay at the Royal York during my Toronto visits. I saw a lot of Asians in Toronto but not many Hispanics.
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