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Matter-eater Man said:
I agree with the sentiment that it's not a case of having jobs that Americans won't work. We just want a job that at least pays the bills. If I work 8 or more hours a day I should be fairly paid for it. It's also amazing how these jobs only become unwanted only when illegal imigrants are availlable. Also this increases taxes on a community when the employer isn't paying a living wage & these people being used for cheap labor use resources & services to supplement the crappy income.



You aint just whistling dixie! It also strains communities, schools, public utilities and the like. I grew up in Southeast L.A. which over the years saw an incredible influx of immigrants (most notably during the mid 80's). These communities are a disaster. Without exaggerating, almost every-single- two bedroom house with a garage has at least 2 families, sometimes 3 living there usually a family per bedroom, another in the illegally converted garage. So the streets are almost undrivable, congestion on the freeways around these communities is also impossible. Most of those immigrants have at least 4 to 6 cars per household and driveways that only accomodate about 2 cars. So the streets are overcrowded with their parked cars, almost without fail large vans and trucks, on streets designed for small cars. A nightmare. I won't even get into the gang problem... In other words, once quiet bedroom communities in the suburbs of L.A. are now for lack of a better word, Slums.

Now as for the policy, as i'm undesranding it, there's going to be a finite number of these 'guest worker" cards. So the program is asking all these illegal immigrants to expose themselves with no guarantee that they'll even receive a card. And if the are lucky enough to receive a card, they are only guaranteed permission to work in the U.S. for 3 years. After that they may be deported?? So what's the incentive for them to renounce their illegal status quo anyway?? The more on looks at this program the less impressive it becomes, for both immigrants and the latino constituency it's supposed to impress.

Last edited by whomod; 2004-01-13 9:54 AM.