My friend at Nokia is here on a temporary work visa, and he is waiting several years for his green card to be completed. His hope is that the green card comes through before he is laid off. He told me that his coworkers are more concerned about their H-1 visa/green card status, than being laid off. If they are laid off, they can find another job, somewhere in the US. But it is hard to get a green card. Apparently, in the white collar jobs, employers check for immigration and work status. So here we have a high tech brilliant foreign worker, educated and coming here by airplane, who must have a green card or H-1 visa to work, whereas an uneducated worker who crawled illegally across the border and broke our immigration laws is allowed to work here forever no questions asked. Is that even fair? No f**cking way!
Instead of getting mad (although I am, for the sake of my friend), I ask myself why Bush is promoting illegal immigration of the underclass.
I think it’s because an underclass, the low cost laborers, people who squeeze 3-4 families into a 2 bedroom apartment in Escondido, benefit the rich by keeping their costs down. Bush wants to create a 2-tier society. Cheap labor for the rich, cheap labor for big business. Use them up, and then when they’re old, send them packing. They can’t get SS. How fair is that???
In the meantime, our housing construction costs are lower, landscaping costs are lower.
Hey, I just had a light go on in my head. Do you suppose we need the cheap illegal labor to reduce the inflation? Just as we have cheap goods because of low wages in China, we have cheap American services due to low wages provided by blue collar illegals. This is one way the government has successfully kept down inflation.
If we had no illegals, maybe inflation would be 1-2% higher. But the willing low wage workers kept wages from going up. Thus, flat wages in the blue collar jobs…
