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Originally Posted by flstf
You are right in that we have let this situation get out of hand but I am not so sure that everyone benefits from illegal (less expensive) labor. Where I live most of the illegals work in the construction, manufacturing and restaurant industry. The business owners and customers benefit from lower labor costs but not so much the legal workers who also work at those jobs.
I bet if the managers in those businesses were being replaced by illegals they wouldn't be touting the advantages of the lower wages so much.
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It strikes me as odd that a local owner of a contracting business would turn his back on guys he has worked with for years to save a few bucks on a bid for a new project. I wouldn't do that. But if I were having problems filling jobs, I might hire illegals.
I would also think an experienced construction worker who knows his job, the language would generally be more productive and more skilled than an illegal. But anyway it seems unlikely that local government officials and people building homes, stores, office buildings, roads, etc. did not know illegals were on the jobsite. Also I wonder why the local trades unions where silent on the issue.