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In reply to the discussion: Pass a Bill or Shove it Up Your Ass. [View all]joeglow3
(6,228 posts)I am thankful my father retired as a union drywaller a couple years ago. I think back to what my family endured, financially, in the 1980's and 1990's when illegal immigrants flooded the drywall labor market. All but one company in town went non-union, wages were slashed in half in less than a decade and many of my father's friends literally lost their homes. What they mean when they say illegal immigrants work the jobs Americans won't is "they work the jobs that Americans were once proud to work but that pay dick since the labor market was flooded."
Since you love to read books and relate them back, I suggest you revisit The Grapes of Wrath to be reminded what happens when we let our corporate and political leaders manipulate us into flooding their labor markets for them.