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In reply to the discussion: "No Frise Sorry" - The guy that wrote this sign wants 15 dollars an hour? [View all]daredtowork
(3,732 posts)This is the sad middle class hypocrisy: it implies a lower class. Immigrant workers aren't a true lower class: they are seen as gateways for "anchor babies" who are aspiring to the American Dream themselves and ultimately pile on to the competition for scarce middle class jobs (with the advantages of youth and diversity pipelining.
Unemployed Americans would take those jobs if they did not entail the class stigma. Many work for minimum wage in clerical non-public facing jobs. I don't think the answer is in blaming Americans for trying to avoid being on display as the lower class. We should take jobs that imply "lower class" out of the system instead of moving to import a lower class, and then forbidding their families class mobility in the name of "too many illegal immigrants."