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Charlotte, N.C., is making headlines this week because dozens of construction sites have gone silent. ICE swept through the region, and the labor force evaporated almost instantly.
...Farmers who had paid teenagers and local laborers [for tobacco farms] fair wages realized they could hire adults from Mexico and Central America for far less and house them in the kinds of conditions Americans would never tolerate: eight men to a sagging, leaking trailer with no electricity, no running water, no insulation....
...Illegal workers who came for tobacco began taking roofing, concrete, and general contracting jobs. My father watched his own bids get undercut again and again by contractors who weren’t paying insurance, taxes, workers’ comp, or legal wages....
...The third wave hit Louisville’s meatpacking plants...
....The fourth wave was quieter but devastating: the wives and older kids of the new arrivals began filling fast-food, restaurant, and service jobs. Those jobs disappeared for American citizens as quickly as the farm and construction work had....
...Americans didn’t suddenly lose their work ethic. The jobs were taken from them — not by immigrants directly, but by American employers who built a business model on illegal labor and by a federal government that looked the other way for forty years....
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The article details how crime rose, introduction of hard drugs, like meth, etc.
Then, with the 1986 Amnesty that passed: Immigration Reform and Control Act, 2.7 million illegal immigrants were given amnesty. The word quickly got out.....get in illegally and maybe you can get amnesty too. The government promise was that strict employer enforcement would happen later. It didn't. Funding was weak, enforcement not prioritized and became politically unpopular.....
Businesses realized they could could continue as usual while the band aid 'solution' weakly stuck.
...Farmers who had paid teenagers and local laborers [for tobacco farms] fair wages realized they could hire adults from Mexico and Central America for far less and house them in the kinds of conditions Americans would never tolerate: eight men to a sagging, leaking trailer with no electricity, no running water, no insulation....
...Illegal workers who came for tobacco began taking roofing, concrete, and general contracting jobs. My father watched his own bids get undercut again and again by contractors who weren’t paying insurance, taxes, workers’ comp, or legal wages....
...The third wave hit Louisville’s meatpacking plants...
....The fourth wave was quieter but devastating: the wives and older kids of the new arrivals began filling fast-food, restaurant, and service jobs. Those jobs disappeared for American citizens as quickly as the farm and construction work had....
...Americans didn’t suddenly lose their work ethic. The jobs were taken from them — not by immigrants directly, but by American employers who built a business model on illegal labor and by a federal government that looked the other way for forty years....
'Jobs Americans Won't Do': The Lie That Broke a Nation and the Economic and Social Devastation It Hid
Explore the economic and social impacts of illegal labor in America.
pjmedia.com
The article details how crime rose, introduction of hard drugs, like meth, etc.
Then, with the 1986 Amnesty that passed: Immigration Reform and Control Act, 2.7 million illegal immigrants were given amnesty. The word quickly got out.....get in illegally and maybe you can get amnesty too. The government promise was that strict employer enforcement would happen later. It didn't. Funding was weak, enforcement not prioritized and became politically unpopular.....
Businesses realized they could could continue as usual while the band aid 'solution' weakly stuck.
