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Originally posted by ladygreek
I do, too, here in MN--especially small factory jobs and farms that pay way less than minimum wage and have no benefits.
Sad to say, but "our" reasoning is that welfare programs provide a better living than these jobs. (and they do.)
Also, it is the same with our Somali population who come here and willingly work the jobs that "we" don't want.
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Somali's and other immigrant populations come from notthing. War, famine, one meal a day, inadequate housing, no running water, toilets, etc. They make more at Wend's in a month below minimum wage than they made in their homelands in a year. People, Black, white, Asian, Hispanic, or whatever are not going to work for $3 an hour. Its not about being lazy (some is), but you can only live on that if you are living 10, 12, to a house like illegal immigrants do.
Where I live, all housing construction is done by illegals. A contractor pulls up to corners or parking lots where the illegals congregate and hire them out on a daily basis. They get paid in cash or off the books. You can't do that with a 30 yr old Black man with a ss#. No. 1, he won't work for less than minimum wage, and number 2, he has to pay taxes. So, in essence, illegal immigrant labor undercuts the hard working Black man or Black woman, who work or used to work in the unskilled labor industry. They are undercut by the pool of illegal labor that is willing to work for less than what is legal. Those thousands of jobs could go to Black men at the $15hr that they should be in a union state, but here you can pay a Mexican $50 for 10 hrs of hard labor in 90 degree heat.
It is not all about laziness. Its an economic decision on both sides. Lets not be quick to self-hate without delving deeper.
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