This article was about an employer who knowingly hired illegal immigrants and many employers are doing this because even though they won’t speak the truth, the immigrants work for less pay and the employers doesn’t give them the benefits that they need. The part that the author is pointing out is that the employers are fighting the persecutions set against them for hiring it illegal immigrants, yet they knowingly hired them with full knowledge of the law. One of the comments in the article brought up by attorney Thomas Green he stated, “If we didn’t have immigrants labor in this country we would all die of scurvy because no one would pick an orange.” I know where he is coming from in this statement because on the ranch my employer hired immigrants and then citizens and all of the citizens quit and the majority of the immigrants stayed. They need and appreciated the job and money more than people unemployed in this country it seems. In the article they talk about different reforms and changes that have been made to try and fix this situation but it isn’t going to be fixed anytime soon and I don’t see the employers changing their ways just yet.
America, RT, Dir. Illegal Workers: Taking American Jobs?. Perf. Hagler, Reverend Graylan, John Romano , and Lauren Lyster . YOUTUBE: 2010, Film.
In the video right at the beginning of it Lauren directs her question towards John Romano on how in his opinion he thinks that illegal immigrants are taking the jobs of the unemployed Americans but yet (she states) none of the American citizens are stepping and taking charge and trying to fight for those jobs. To Americans the work is too hard and the pay is too cheap. John Romano debates back that because of the immigrants income is lower for all Americans, the jobs were already taken and not able to be fought for. Lauren states that if all of the immigrants were replaced by American workers food prices would be raised and she says Arizona is doing a great job on their new reforms. The Reverend blames the economic system and says immigrants are just America’s easy person to blame. Since our Economic system was failing we just started to outsource, which is why the employers hired the illegal immigrants. So shouldn’t the employers be targeted not the immigrant’s? Since this video is a debate of course you see the three different extremes of views and I personally see all sides but the Reverend has the most middle ground on the opinion of the labor laws and immigrants. There are so many sides and opinions on the immigrants and different points of view where “you can see where they are coming from” but it is interesting to me how the High School Equivalency Programs don’t look at these issues and they are just there to help the student despite where they came from or what their background is. It is such a touchy subject to many in America and who knows what kind of changes will be made just ten years from now.
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