Are U.S. Businesses Encouraging Illegal Immigration?
SodaHead Politics
April 21, 2011 20:35:40
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The Media Consortium, an independent journalism organization, suggests that U.S. businesses are a major reason that so many illegal immigrants are trying to cross the border, explaining that NAFTA's free trade agreements have taken businesses away from low-wage countries in Latin America.
President Obama's most recent tour of Latin America was marked by strong protests and political resistance from lower-class workers eager to renegotiate international trade agreements.
While NAFTA created considerable economic opportunities for U.S. businesses eager to conduct business in low-wage Mexico, it also allowed American farmers to flood the Mexican market with government-subsidized corn--destroying the country's own corn industry and bankrupting thousands of agricultural workers.
President Obama's most recent tour of Latin America was marked by strong protests and political resistance from lower-class workers eager to renegotiate international trade agreements.
More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-media-consortium...
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Want to stop illegals? Take away incentives: Fine for dogcrap out of businesses who hire ppl without legal documentation. It's a start. Also require documentation at schools.
BTW, you are aware that New York and Chicago have a big problem with illegal immigrants from Ireland working in restaurants and bars? Yep. And did you know that Chicago public high schools used to teach science and math in German to accommodate immigrants from Germany? So why gripe about hearing Spanish? It's not going to hurt you.
Washington DC still has a Chinatown with street signs IN CHINESE and it's nice -- it's a reminder that Americans are a nation of many nations, "e pluribus unum" (look on your money): "out of many, one." Doesn't matter what language we speak. Take a look at the list of dead soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq: Hispanic soldiers, Hispanic heroes, Hispanic people who gave their lives for their country: the U.S.A.
Another big reason is because our federal government don't enforce laws against business hiring illegal aliens. I know they have well publicized raids every once in awhile but there are plenty of laws on the books that carry substantial penalties to the employer but they are almost never penalized. So for our democrat supporting friends on here, blame those greedy republican businessmen and thats true but let's not forget it's your party who won't enforce the laws on the books. They thirst for those Latino votes and will sell you down the street to get them. So much for the party of the working man!
1) one is self explanatory. They get the jobs, we dont
2) More and more of these illegal immigrants are coming over here without learning our language. As a result, this country has somehow decided that we are going to give them a break by first making everything have spanish subtitles. Next we have taken out the Spanish subtitles and the English writings and rewritten signs and billboards, etc in Spanish with English subtitles. Now we are seeing things in just plain Spanish, no english subtitles. Next it will be mandatory for everyone to study the "complete" Mexican history, no Spanish fluently, and everybody else will be non-in-void.
3) when illegals come over, a lot of them leave their families behind, with intentions of bringing them later. But f...
1) one is self explanatory. They get the jobs, we dont
2) More and more of these illegal immigrants are coming over here without learning our language. As a result, this country has somehow decided that we are going to give them a break by first making everything have spanish subtitles. Next we have taken out the Spanish subtitles and the English writings and rewritten signs and billboards, etc in Spanish with English subtitles. Now we are seeing things in just plain Spanish, no english subtitles. Next it will be mandatory for everyone to study the "complete" Mexican history, no Spanish fluently, and everybody else will be non-in-void.
3) when illegals come over, a lot of them leave their families behind, with intentions of bringing them later. But for the time being while the rest of their family is still in Mexico they are bringing in money and sending it straight to their families. Now the moral/motive is not a sin because they are trying to help their families, but they are taking that money out of our economy and not regulating money into our economy. Its a give and take system, but they are taking and not giving.
Now before people start saying I am a racist, i want to point this out, I am not. I admire those who come over here and actually ATTEMPT to become legal. Those who come over here without a regard for this country and dont try to become legal, dont care, and dont at least learn our language, have no respect from me. They should be considered a shame for slapping those who come over here and work hard to become legal in the face.
This country is becoming too soft...well it has become too soft already. To give an example: if you go to France without knowing any French they will look down on you, talk about you, and refuse to give you any help. The thing that is funny about it is that everyone in France knows English, most just refuse to speak it. But if you go and you have learned at least the basics they will at least help you or talk to you. Their country is if you dont know the language or know some of the language, then dont come! Why cant we do that?
Lastly and I apologize for the length of this post, but we sit here and worry about learning all this Spanish when the top language in the World is Chinese....Yes Spanish is in the top 5 along with Arabic and French, English and Russian. But its not the ONLY language we should learn. If we are a fair country then we need to stop schools from dropping french and other languages down to only ESL and Spanish...it deprives our students
Listen to yourself.
While many US businesses do take advantage of lower (or for-cash) wages, that is more of a byproduct than a cause of illegal immigration. The causes are rather simply that US is seen as more prosperous (and more conducive to making living) than their own countries (which is also true of much less-prosperous India as seen by those of its neighbour Bangladesh continuously since 1971) combined with US government not enforcing its own immigration laws (and many Congress/Senate members being in favour of amnestying existing illegal aliens, which encourages even more to buck the laws).
Blaming the US for their own being FUBAR (they were this way prior to Reagan's victory in 1980, let alone implementation of NAFTA in 1993) is not new!
If we somehow got rid of hiring of illegal immigrants AND outsourcing, there would be even more jobs available and the recession probably wouldn't be as bad.
The only problem is figuring out how to get 90s trained business men to hire the more-costly American citizens. Especially considering the 90s training told you to "Listen to the numbers! If the numbers say firing people will increase profits because you have to pay less people, do it! Only profits matter!"
Your response indicates you have a problem with business making profits. Here’s a clue, if business doesn’t make a profit it will cease to exist! The ONLY purpose of a business is profit! All other motivations will lead to extinction. The “not for profit” segment lives on either government or personal donations.
If a CEO of a business can increase the profits of the business by outsourcing, he/she should be fired if outsourcing is not undertaken.
The problem in this country is that the government, spurred on by liberal/progressive ideology, has screwed up private business, by its over regulation and punitive taxation, to the extent that business ends up sacrificing legitimate profit so much by having to pay for legal and technical advice on how to operate the business is such a way as to avoid government interference. The result is, to make a decent profit the leaders of the business have to resort to schemes like outsourcing.
About that regulation thing, wasn't the whole point of private business that, you know... it's private? Not entirely regulated by government?