Illegal Mexicans steal all the jobs where I live...

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illegal mexican taking jobs, or
teaching hate in state-funded muslim schools

our country has been infiltrated

Politically, this whole thing is being framed wrong (if you want to win). "Wage degradation" and "flood the labor market" should be the focus. The number of Mexicans water down your wages; the number of Asian Indians water down my market value. I'm forced to work with them in the same cubical-bloc. My only edge is that in general, Asian Indians don't "push" for perfection. They stop when they find *A* solution and don't go on for the best solution to a problem. There is a certain value in the business world for people that have "fight" in them (along with the skills not to leave ill will behind after the task is done). Their nationality doesn't matter. In fact, the way I'm framing this can win established Indians and Mexicans to your side of the issue.

Fuzzy wrote:

wsmac wrote:

At least we've finally locked down the Northern border and are keeping those Canadian-Mexicans out of this country! Them and that beer they drink!:twisted:

You can thank(and we can blame) those darn mythbusters for that! No more catapulting Canadians across the border!

Yeah, but once again you have the Great White North all to yourselves... betcha pretty happy aboot that EH?

Actually I'm gonna miss the free crossing into Canada.. I hear we have to use our passports now.
Really makes it seem like I'm heading to a different country if I have to use my passport!

Cinephile, have you tried working through employment agencies in your area? I've gotten some of my best jobs that way (including a three-year stint as a licensing clerk in San Diego - had I known then what I know now, I could have hit them with an ADA lawsuit for the way I was let go...).

Here's a link to a listing of agencies in your area, with addresses and phone numbers. Good luck on your job search, and let us know how it goes!

Well, thats capitalism

They are willing to work harder for less

^ That's true. On the one hand. I've read of cases in cases where illegal immigrants have been removed, companies have been forced to raise their wages to a more competitive rate implying a superior wage for the local Americans. On the other hand, Mexican workers imply lower costs for greater productivity (a boon to both employers and the Mexican immigrants and the cost of the products they produce). Take your pick...

Labor Ready can be a good short-term solution - I've done that one on occasion - but usually, that's aimed more at the physical-labor market, paying just over minimum wage. If that's what you're looking for, Labor Ready's a good choice - if they can't get you a job that day, you get half a day's pay just for having been there.

The other agencies I listed for you don't charge you anything. The way they make their money is, if your pay is (say) $10/hr, the employer is actually paying the agency closer to $18/hr. The employer doesn't have any overhead, because you've already been vetted by the agency, so they're still money ahead by doing this. (The job I mentioned in San Diego started with a pay rate of $8.50/hr for me; after three months, when the company could hire me directly without paying a penalty fee, they signed me up for $10/hr to start. They got a completely trained employee, and three months' work without the need to screen their own applicants, and Office Temporaries got paid for three months of my work.)