Re: OT: The jobs Americans WILL do

On Mar 31, 4:17 am, "phlash74" <phlas...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 31, 1:02 am, "Paul Popinjay" <popin...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://www.corruptionchronicles.com/2007/03/immigration_raid_opens_jo...

Immigration Raid Opens Jobs For Legal Residents

Those who say illegal immigrants are not taking jobs from Americans need
only look at a working class Massachusetts town where hundreds of locals
have rushed to apply for jobs at a factory recently raided by immigration
officials.

Incredibly, the raided New Bedford leather factory openly employed hundreds
of illegal immigrants yet was awarded a lucrative $100 million Department of
Defense contract to stitch back backs and vests for U.S. soldiers in Iraq
and Afghanistan.

Incredibly? I find it very credulous. Nothing's a bigger joke than
the law which states that companies can hire foreign workers if no
"qualified Americans" can be found. They don't look very hard.



Immigration officials raided the company earlier this month and arrested 361
illegal workers, mostly from Central America and Mexico. Sixty-six of the
aliens arrested already had final deportation orders that predated the raid
yet they remained in the U.S. undetected. The company's owner and three
managers were also arrested although a skeleton staff continues operating
the facility.

Within days of the immigration raid, more than 400 local residents in the
depressed factory and fishing town with the state's highest unemployment
rate, applied for the newly vacant jobs. New Bedford's unemployment rate is
nearly double the national rate although its estimated 100,000 residents are
more than willing to work. The city's mayor sees the immigration raid as a
positive thing that has created hundreds of new jobs for New Bedford's
qualified and legal residents.

Yes, and the honkies will quit next month allowing the illegal
immigrants to take over again. Everybody's more than willing to work,
until they find out they actually have to work.



Wow i had no idea this was a national story, i live about 45 minutes
from New Bedford, and find this follow up pretty interesting. I guess
anything is possible, but if there really are 400 people in NB who
have been dying to make backpacks for the man, i have to say that if
they can take a bus or have a car, there's probably 800 Dunkin Donuts
alone within a 20 mile radius of the city along with any number of
similarly classed jobs like a Wendy's, McDonald's etc. I wonder if the
factory isn't paying a little above min wage to help it's negative
image. I'm sure they didn't pay the illegals min wage...probably 5-6/
hr. under the table. Really surprising to me though, i'd like to know
the rest of the facts.

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