Illegal immigrants ONLY have jobs that Americans don't want

It was not only Powell who made that statement: George W. Bush also said the same thing! Come to Texas and you will be surprised at all that is going on! Hispanics (legals and illegals) are the preffered choice of workers in Texas! Speakeasy, I am sorry to inform you that it is only a matter of time before we all start heading North for refuge! I believe that all the Southern States have been reclaimed!

I have always thought that it was a MYTH that illegals are only doing jobs we wouldn't. That is the dumbest thing to have ever come out of anybody's mouth. If someone is unemployed but an illegal IS, don't you think the poor citizen collecting unemployment or living on barely anything because they ran out of unemployment would do one of those jobs? HELL YES, of course they would. I don't think ANY illegals ought to be here, they should ALL be deported, and whatever we are spending should be used to find and flush out illegals and send them on their way. The only ones who should be left alone are people who have clearly started the process of gaining citizenship, and they should have a time limit in which to accomplish it, say 6 months to a year. If they have not finished gaining their citizenship and been given naturalized status within that timeframe, they should be deported. It would cost us a lot less than it costs us to pay for welfare, food stamps, all the medical bills these people skip out on, all the money it takes to educate their kids in public schools and pay for their kids' lunches, etc etc etc. I also believe that anybody who is NOT legal should NEVER be allowed to get a driver's license from ANY state, OR any state issued ID. Without a license or state issued ID, none of these people should EVER be allowed to get a job to begin with. This also means they shouldn't be able to rent a place to live, purchase land or a vehicle, or enter into any legal binding agreement of any kind with any business. SOOOO... if you could not prove who you were and therefore could not get a place to live, a vehicle, or a job, wouldn't that mean you could not live here? That would solve the whole problem, wouldn't it?

So you know a lot of American that are lining up to pick crop during the summer? Until you show me that line it is still a fact.

I think we are just repeating what we always have heard. The game is changing, all the time. I know people who will take just about any job, in order to have anything. I cannot believe the $23 per hour maid payment. That is more than manufacturing jobs pay around here. I would be happy with $10.

Another myth attached to this one is that if employers are forced to hire legal workers prices will increase. The problem with this theory is that prices for goods and services did not fall as more illegal workers flooded the various markets...nor did they increase at a slower pace than those of businesses that hired legal workers. The employer profits, American workers suffer from job loss, states and the federal government lose income revenue, illegal workers are taken advantage of. As undocumented workers continue to find work as day laborers in the construction/home improvement fields, consumers have no way of knowing whether the people working in their homes are qualified and employers have no way of knowing who they are. How can anyone seriously believe that this is a good thing?

Exactly right on the money! What really gets me is that our elected officials are the ones that are able to break the law and bend the rules without any repercussions. Then there are the failed taxes they never seem to pay. Timothy Geithner is one person who really gets me steamed. He's supposed to be handling such activities and yet did not pay his taxes. What to do? Jail these creeps and ban them from employment in our government is what! We need to create a special government entity that polices our politicians and be able to slap them with fines or even jail time. That is supposedly the FBI's job, but they never seem to act.

I think that this is bull because I know a lot of women who are White and African American who take janitor jobs and maid service jobs. I think that this is complete myth because there are many women who can't get jobs who would love to have jobs like this.

The real truth is that most of the Illegals here are not working at all. They pack a house or trailer full of relatives and one or two work and the rest find a way to get on the dole. It is amazing how quickly they learn to work the system. They make more on Social Security than we do when we retire and they have never paid a dime into it. I wish that I was illegal. I had my own painting, carpentry and stucco business for a number of years. I was forever being approached by illegals for work. I always said no. Besides they wanted more money than the market was paying. I told them to go to Orlando and see if they could get it there. This is Fl. You cannot get Yankee wages here. I had and all female crew, but I never went for a minority status when I bid on jobs although I could have. We always had enough work without it. The brick and block layers were the ones that had the problems. The illegals took that over and put the locals out of work. I sometimes hired some of the locals to help with mixing mud for stucco. They were always looking for work because of illegals. The one type of work in the south that used to always be left to illegals was migrant work. Picking oranges and various fruit that machines could not do. They have since built machines that can pick almost everything. I guess folks have had to branch out and enter other lines of work to worm their way into the US.

A more accurate statement would be, illegals are doing the jobs businesses won't pay Americans to do.

It is very rare for illegal immigrants to be making over minimum wage - although, some immigrants who are working are not actually illegal, they just don't have a work permit. I don't know, it's easy to get mad and discriminate against the outsiders who are stealing jobs away from hard-working Americans, especially when we need a scapegoat because of our terrible economy, but the truth is that illegal immigrants are not a major problem in our economy and if you knew any illegal immigrants and got to know their stories, you probably wouldn't be so quick to judge.

This is interesting. If the jobs that the illegal immigrants taking are wanted so badly from the legal citizens and that they are paid more or less at the same level, why on Earth would the boss choose those illegal ones as it is by itself also illegal? Isn't it obvious that taking an illegal immigrant to fulfill a position is cheaper than a legal citizen? Above all, it is the money that the boss concern most and thus only if they are paid less that the boss will choose them. So, the question is, are the others willing to accept a even lower wages to do these not so desirable jobs.

How in the world this illegal immigrants got the high paid job with government official itself..? why they consider illegal instead of the citizens? A questions until now I can't even explain it to myself..maybe you can..

I think that they should not be here in the first place it just causes problems here it really makes me mad to see people just thinking we are here to help every one at will. why is everyone being so selfish we have problems as it is.