How to Get Carpenters On the Cheap
Know any unemployed American carpenters? This won’t help them any:
SASABE, Mexico - When Pedro Lopez Vazquez crossed illegally into the United States last week, he was not heading north to look for a job. He already had one.
His future employer even paid $1,000 for a smuggler to help Vazquez make his way from the central Mexican city of Puebla to Aspen, Colo.
“We’re going to Colorado to work in carpentry because we have a friend who was going to give us a job,” Vazquez said.
… His story is not unusual. A growing number of U.S. employers and migrants are tapping into an underground employment network that matches one with the other, often before the migrants leave home.
More replacement workers are on their way. Too bad the Democrats have been silent on this issue for years. Seems odd that those trying to limit the flow of illegal replacement workers, which are replacing parts of the American working class, are Republicans. The world seems upside down.
Actually, it is not quite that simple. Republicans are split. One camp wants to stop the massive illegal immigration with aggressive steps (like here at NoSpeedBumps) including an extensive wall or fence. But, there is the good ol’ fashioned wing of the Republican party that cares only about business interests. Strange that Democrats are teaming up with business interests to keep the illegal immigration flow coming. Cheap, flexible, illegal workers are a form of Corporate Welfare. The Democrats have hopped on the Corporate Welfare band wagon. For many years now, they have tacitly accepted the wink & nod system of importing massive numbers of illegal workers .
Where was the outcry from Democrats, who have historically claimed to represent the American working class, over all these years?
If the visibility of this issue keeps up though, more and more Democrats in Congress may be shamed into agreeing with real border security measures instead of just more window dressing.
