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Originally posted by LubeMaster77
Jim - I have been to many food processing plants - bottling, canning, freeze, produce processing, kill plants, further processing, confectionary, baking just to name a few. I have yet to visit any plant that doesn't have a majority of Hispanics on the line. I will be willing to bet that at least 2% to 10% are illegals.
I hope your business is one that can groe and process food or you will be loosing some weight this summer real quick!
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I watched the news last night for the 1st time in months. I hate the news. Anyway, I saw a statistic that "claims" meat cutters / Packers made $19 an hour in 1980 and now in 2006 make $9 an hour because of the overwhelming availability of cheap illegal labor.
Is this state true? I have no idea.
My business is Land Surveying. I have in the past employed a Mexican. He had his green card and social security number and I reported it to the labor board and withheld and deposited his taxes and SS like a law abiding employer. I have a Puerto Rican employee now who's parents immigrated here LEGALLY when he was a child.
How these big companies can get away with hiring all these illegals is beyond me. I cannot do it. I would be busted in a minute. Unless of course I pay off the books and lie to the IRS about how much money comes into my business. But that is another irritation with me, Patriots who will cheat on their taxes at the drop of a hat.
Will I make a difference? Probably not, if everyone I know would do the same and TRY to aviod companies that are supporting the illegal activity it micht actually have an impact.
This whole "lets take american to its knees" mentality is pissing me off to no end.
I read a letter in Time from an Indian Immigrant who is in the process of getting his green card. He made a good point, if the US lets all these legal have amnesty then the message sent to all other immigrants is it is better to break the law than to try to do things legally. That is a bad message to send.