The economic downturn is the cause of many US Citizens finding money wherever t hey can get it. US Citizens are even desperate enough to do, according to the Wall Street Journal, the “jobs Americans will not do”. Day labor used to be something that male and female white-collar individuals would never think about since it was undocumented employees that filled it, although that has changed. Reports indicate crowds of aspiring day laborers waiting on street corners for jobs are increasingly non-Latino.
When survival is at stake for oneself and one’s family, per diem day labor work becomes necessary. Illegal immigrants in California are starting to protest that Americans are taking away their money by taking their jobs while undocumented employees typically would work in these areas. Considering that construction jobs have mostly gone stagnant, day laborers are scrambling for jobs for instance moving and landscaping, which pay less because fewer hours are required. Undocumented workers used to take all the low paying jobs that now educated, skilled American workers are attempting to pick up.
Center for Immigration Studies: Dispelling the illusion
”Jobs US Citizens won’t do” is an illusion says a study by the Center for immigration Studies (CIS). Available data points to the falsehood of this idea; Census Bureau data collected from 2005 to 2007 indicate that even before the recession, “there were only a tiny number of majority-immigrant occupations”. Census data shows the truth behind housekeeping, maintenance, construction and janitorial that would initially are thought to be undocumented employees. It showed that these workers tended to be more American-born than anything else. The CIS surveyed 4.4 million people. 560,000 of those were immigrant people. Even taking into account undocumented workers who fly under the radar, the sample size remains significant.
Both economy and wages are depressed
The “jobs Americans won’t do” illusion has a reason why it’s here says Jon Dougherty. Jon Dougherty wrote the book “Illegal’s: The Imminent Threat Posed by Our Unsecured U.S.-Mexico Border”. Illegal immigration is popular in some places. Because of the traveling like this, “poor, uneducated laborers from south of the border has already worked to depress American wages”. Contractors typically pick undocumented workers because they will do the same work as Americans for less cash. Americans – particularly those with families – cannot afford to work for $8 per hour if they were previously making just enough to cover expenses at $15 per hour. The pay cut is really hard to bear with the high cost of living in The United States. Many undocumented day laborers can retreat back across the border at the end of a day’s work and survive – if not comfortably – on wages they typically cannot earn in their native country.
Find more details on this subject
CIS
cis.org/illegalimmigration-employment
News Max
archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/2/13/140946.shtml
Wall Street Journal
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704913704575453792265306852.html?mod=WSJ_hps_SECONDTopStories
Undocumented workers protesting Americans taking their day labor jobs
youtube.com/watch?v=23mKOm5rftM
