Immigrants

[Sandpebble]

OK Sam... heres the skinny on that. Most large corporations benefited from the influx of immigrants indirectly. By this I mean that when contruction was tanking all the contruction companies were hiring low wage immigrants.... meaning tradesmen like myself were forced to seek employment in places like Home Depot. Home Depot took advantage of the situation by lowering the starting wage in my area from $11 an hour to $9.65 an hour and shortly after I went to work for them down to $8.50 ...... while they boasted record increases in profit.

So... corporations the likes of Home Depot may not have been hiring illegals..... they were glad to have them here as it gave them an endless supply of cheap hungry labor.

Prior to this I worked as a supervisor for large construction company. In this position I was asked to look into the laws pertaining to the consequences of hiring illegal aliens. Per the Goverment of the United States I was informed that if the presented Identification was even remotely plausible I couldn't deny employment on the grounds that I felt it was fake... that would be deemed discrimination.

Let me remind you all that this took place under the Bush Administration....

[S.A. Boggs]

OK Sam... heres the skinny on that. Most large corporations benefited from the influx of immigrants indirectly. By this I mean that when contruction was tanking all the contruction companies were hiring low wage immigrants.... meaning tradesmen like myself were forced to seek employment in places like Home Depot. Home Depot took advantage of the situation by lowering the starting wage in my area from $11 an hour to $9.65 an hour and shortly after I went to work for them down to $8.50 ...... while they boasted record increases in profit.

So... corporations the likes of Home Depot may not have been hiring illegals..... they were glad to have them here as it gave them an endless supply of cheap hungry labor.

Prior to this I worked as a supervisor for large construction company. In this position I was asked to look into the laws pertaining to the consequences of hiring illegal aliens. Per the Goverment of the United States I was informed that if the presented Identification was even remotely plausible I couldn't deny employment on the grounds that I felt it was fake... that would be deemed discrimination.

Let me remind you all that this took place under the Bush Administration....

This is what I mean, someone who was getting $10.00 per day will gladly work for $8.50 per hour as top money, especially if under the table. Government has to take a hand now in employers must check to see if the employment credentials are real and not fake. Set up something akin to the FBI check on firearms. What happened to you was deploryable and should not have

[JB White]

.....Prior to this I worked as a supervisor for large construction company. In this position I was asked to look into the laws pertaining to the consequences of hiring illegal aliens. Per the Goverment of the United States I was informed that if the presented Identification was even remotely plausible I couldn't deny employment on the grounds that I felt it was fake... that would be deemed discrimination.

Let me remind you all that this took place under the Bush Administration....

I remember those days. Identification from list A and list B, or list B and two on list C etc. Who carries a passport and birth certificate out onto a construction site?? Our union issued cert cards but there was no cross referencing as to how many times a cert number was being used. Didn't take long before forgeries of those were everywhere too.
It was a good try but way too easy to circumvent.