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Why do illegals take low wage jobs from Americans that already make low wages?

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    the illegals low wages are lower then the citizens low wages. they'll take an $8hr full time job for $200wk

  • justa
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    An illegal isn't going to complain to the government when he doesn't get paid, or when his wife is raped.

    An illegal isn't going to OSHA with complaints about dangerous working conditions and lack of safety equipment. Nor will they whistleblow when they see toxins used in the fields or factories.

    Its more than low wages, it's the fact that they can't hold the employers to any kind of honest or safe behavior, and for a certain kind of owner its important to have that secrecy.

  • 5 years ago

    confident, they do decrease wages. The go out to artwork exertions jobs, despatched out ten human beings to do a job, end in much less time. the place I stay, I truly have truly considered an entire kinfolk, mom, father, sisters and brothers, and little toddlers go out and drywall and new residence. I truly have additionally considered a landscaping team that consisted of four adults and a few minors. American workers do exactly not artwork like that. have you ever long previous right into a retail save and heard a bunch of youngsters working around, and the cashier telling them to act and be extremely jointly as enjoying? confident, the mum working a money sign up and her youngsters making use of the save as their very own very own playland. It occurs for all time right here. If i might have taken my toddler to artwork, and enable him/her play and hold close out all day, i may well be fired. apart from working for decrease wages and not paying earnings tax, and being unlawful, additionally they have not got the charges that a citizen has. Insurances, foodstuff, clothing etc. They stay ten human beings in an place of living, so as that they in my view do not pay plenty for hire, they frequently pile ten or greater right into a van, this is frequently uninsured, so transportation costs are low. I observed a van pull as much as a dollar save some weeks in the past and fifteen Mexicans have been given out of it and went into the save. the place I stay, If I artwork on my very own, we could say I do drywall artwork, I ought to have an occupational license...I must be integrated.........I ought to have insurance....I ought to acquire workmans comp exemption or pay into workmans comp insurance fund..........The illegals do not do any of this. in the event that they artwork for a valid organization, then the only guy or woman who has the organization will pay those costs, yet he nevertheless makes out exceptionally darned properly, by using fact that his exertions is so low-cost. The standard person can not compete against the illegals. confident he ought to hire the illegals himself, yet then they start up annoying benifits and better wages. merely like the voters anticipate.

  • Marduk
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    They tried to get Americans to take a job picking lettuce and there were no takers. Without illegals the jobs wouldn't be done.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    lack of intelligence means you stay at the bottom

  • 8 years ago

    Because there's way too many of them!

  • 8 years ago

    they are the easiest available

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