About Illegal Immigrant Labor Pool

We've seen the ridiculous claims by President Bush and many Congressional and Senatorial representatives that the cheap labor provided by illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans don't want. Well, this is absurd! We live in Cincinnati, OH and the illegal immigrant labor pool has pretty much taken over all of the residential construction jobs that were only 3 years ago primarily held by Americans! Any residential job site you go to is heavily labored by immigrants and from what we have seen on the arrest records when the INS came in, many of these workers are illegals. They have taken over the painting, drywall and roofing industries as far as the labor pool goes. Are President Bush and our Congress men and women trying to tell us that Americans do not want these jobs any more?

Because I have the answer for everyone. Americans want these jobs but not at $6, $7 or even $8.00 an hour like the illegals will work for! How can anyone afford to support a family on those wages? How can the illegals? Well for starters, quite a few of them are paid under the table, meaning no taxes and no deductions from their wages. That's a huge advantage. Then there is no medical insurance expense as they are used to not having this coverage in their homeland and they just go without it here. They can still get medical coverage by availing themselves of the basically free County health services and emergency medical care at the local hospitals. Services you, I, and all taxpayers fund by the way! Many house themselves with 8 to 10 others in houses where they can minimize expenses and maximize the money they pocket. If you are an American with a family how can you do this? An American who is working legally has to pay taxes, needs to buy medical insurance or they could lose everything their family owns, and needs to support their family. So what it all comes down to is that the illegals enjoy a huge and unfair competitive advantage.

Now don't get me wrong. I do not blame the illegals. Quite frankly if I was in their shoes I would probably do the same thing they are. You do what needs to be done within reason to support your family with weighing the downside of what you are doing. And quite frankly, thanks to our government and scumbag politicians the downside to being an illegal immigrant isn't much. Are they jailed? No! The very few that are caught and punished are just sent back to Mexico, where they can re-cross the border once again. They know the way and the second time it is probably easier for them.

I blame two groups of folks for this mess! One, I blame our spineless and worthless politicians who will not do one of their basic and primary jobs - protecting us! They are turning their backs on us, the people who employ them. The oath that they take on entering office swears that they will protect our country. Doesn't that include protecting its citizens and ensuring the economical well being of the country and it's citizens. They are not doing their jobs, plain and simple. We need to make them accountable! If they were doing their jobs there wouldn't be an estimated 12,000,000 illegals in this country at the moment. By the way I feel that the actual number is much, much higher. I would wager that it is more likely around 25 to 30,000,000. Take a look around this entire country. They are now everywhere.

Two, I blame the greedy business owners that employ the illegals. If they weren't employing them, the illegals wouldn't be coming here! Now that everyone in certain industries is employing illegals, it may be a matter of survival. But, originally it started out just as plain simple greed! The employers just wanted to save money on the employee side and pocket more greenbacks. In order to do this, they sold out their fellow citizens. Nice folks they are not. They need to be severely fined when caught and jailed! This also wouldn't be nearly as bad if our government officials were doing their jobs. More of these scumbag business owners would be caught and fined if they were, and this would cause a deterrent to employing the illegals.

When you hear that the illegals are not damaging Americans' employment opportunities you need to realize that this is a blatant lie! Why Democratic voters are supporter their representatives that are pushing for not closing the border and doing nothing about the illegals already here is beyond me. They are shooting you people in the back! Start calling Washington DC and ask "Where Is The Fence?" Demand that the border be closed and the flow of illegals stopped. Then demand that the illegals already here be deported. Then demand that we change the law that states if you are born here no matter the circumstances that you are a legal US citizen. Under today's situation this is the most ridiculous law I have ever heard of. It needs to be done away with! It is how all of the illegals are coming here and then having children that are legal US citizens and ones that we must pay for schooling, medical costs, and other social support systems. It is financially killing this country.

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