According to the President Mexican illegal aliens are doing the work that Americans won’t do. President Bush likes to paint these workers as people merely struggling to help us keep our hands clean. The truth is a bit dirtier than what Mr. Bush would have us believe.
At the bottom of the page I am highlighting a story which shows how dirty it can be. Imagine losing your business in drywall to President Bush’s desire to have people here doing the work that Americans won’t do.
If you are a legitimate drywall contractor and have to compete against these sorts of challenges, you will be finding another business. It is simply not possible to compete with a Contractor willing to use illegals. Since he doesn’t pay Workman’s comp and he likely pays below minimum wages he is unbeatable by anyone following the laws of our land. Mind you that he doesn’t pay them the wages he would have to pay legal citizens in many cases because of laws stating what the minimums are for legal citizen. In short even if a legal citizen wanted to market himself at the going rate of an illegal it would be against the law.
Exactly why this practice should be defended by anyone much less the President of the United States is a mystery. Only the basest motives can be imagined since it would be simple enough to vastly expand the legal workers visa program so that those current illegals could take advantage of being covered by insurance in case of injury and making a decent living. But in my mind any sort of vast expansion of the Workers visa must be accompanied by a demand that illegals apply for such Visa’s in their homecountry.
We must not reward those who have thumbed their noses at our laws.
Channel3000.com – I-Team – Construction Controversy: “At the heart of the issue: cheap labor.
Sources tell News 3 that certain drywall contractors access $5-$10-an-hour workers by hiring a Mexican middleman, often called a ‘coyote.’
The ‘coyote,’ or broker, brings in other Mexican workers and pays them cash. All tracks are covered, sources say, by cheap worker’s compensation insurance policies designed for sole proprietors.
Sources say that makes the ‘coyote’ looks like a legitimate subcontractor when he really isn’t.
‘These coyotes, they claim they got worker’s comp, they’ll go out and get a certificate,’ Hollis said. ”Employees: zero, if any.’ They got 40 guys on the job and nobody under their workman’s comp.’
‘All those guys got insurance for ? control a lot of Mexicans,’ said Saul Mendoza (pictured, left), a drywall worker who used to work for cash. ‘One guy controls 20 guys, 30 guys.’ “
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