Quote from prt_systems:
Yes well the history of the united states is that it is a nation of immigrants. So, at some point we need to ask if that tradition is going to be abandoned.
The fact is that we have allowed employers in the US to become dependent upon cheap labor - in some cases below the minimum wage - in jobs that cant be "outsourced" overseas since they need to be done on-site.
The real question is, why have employers been allowed to run busnieses using temporary workers or in some cases illegal workers ? If people really wanted to enforce the existing laws they would. Since they are basically not enforced on has to assume that there is no political will for there not to be low wage workers avaliable to employers willing to break the law.
The problem comes in when the same peple profiting or doing nothing at the whim of employers come out in public stating that "illegal workers are a problem" .. alll with a wink and a nod to the employers funding the re-election campaigns of the people that supposedly enforece the laws .... This is why folks are angry.
