I Took the Immigrant Farm Workers Challenge
Illegals Say Americans Can't Do Their Jobs!
I remember a time around this area, when children worked the fields doing chores such as de-tasseling corn every summer. My relatives worked in fields and canneries, my ancestors' endured hardships, as have all of ours.
Then arrived factory jobs that allowed Americans to be paid and treated better, so many people took them. The fact is that there were always lower paying, rough neck, work until you pass out, be paid like a pauper and cough up a lung 10 years later factory jobs for those not lucky enough to have gotten the better ones. Now these jobs are the rule rather than the exception. To imply that Americans can't take the conditions in a field is a confrontational stance to take for udocumented workers.
In case no one knew, a peso is still worth less than a dollar. This means illegals can come to the States, work for a few months and take those dollars back home where they are worth more. Maybe this is why they are able to survive these horrendous conditions that us soft Americans can't take.
I have no problem with legal immigrants in the U.S. but this is an insult to ALL legal residents, no matter their heritage. Americans need leaders willing to stand up to illegal immigrants. Perhaps part of the problem here is too many of our politicians and corporate "leaders" rely on this cheap immigrant labor as another addition to their illegal activities that provide them with luxuries most Americans only dream about.
I took the United Farm Workers challenge and filled out their form to obtain employment, which they claim they will so graciously train me to do. Do illegals even have to fill out a form?
I got an email with a link to a website where they advised me to put in "farmworker" in the type of employment field and do a search for every state in the U.S. Nothing available in my state, I guess no illegals are willing to give up their jobs in Indiana! I know there are plenty here. This is the fault of our "leaders"
I'm a college educated American willing to take an illegal immigrants job. Updates provided if jobs become available in my area.
Read all about it here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100624/ap_on_en_tv/us_immigration_take_our_jobs
Published by Don A Shepard
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16 Comments
Post a CommentWhat crazy inverted racism for the union to say Americans can't do farm work! Would they ever dream of saying non-Americans can't do office work! Of course not, but this kind of upside down logic is everywhere.
Recieved a follow up email asking if I found a job. There were no jobs listed within 150 miles from here!
I know some folks in Indiana! And will be passing along this article!
All I can say is, I try to obey the law of the land. While I understand the plight of those wanting to flee here, order must be maintained, and what kind of citizen would one become if they start right off the bat breaking the law?
Still no openings in Indiana, I really want to post a follow up about how I took a farm labor job, my writing and my research could go on hold for that!
Thanks for the comments, it's encouraging to see some agreement here. I think the corporate farms would just assume we believe that we can't do the work, so they can keep wages down. My thinking is Americans just need to be more self-sufficient.
I remember in my childhood de-tasseling and spraying beans in the summer for my grandfather's field, it was a tough job, but we were paid and I loved making my own money to buy school clothes for the coming year. Even tho' it was hard, we loved it as it gave us such an independent feeling...thanks for reminding me of some childhood memories! And I agree with the comments below...we can do anything we set our minds to it's def. an insult to our pride!
I have nothing against legal immigrants, but I agree, it really is a slap in the face that they would even suggest an American couldn't do this kind of work. My husband, nine siblings, and their parents picked cotton for their living. From the time my husband was old enough to walk he toted a small tow sack. When it was full, he emptied it into his mothers sack and went back for more. The jobs illegal immigrants are doing would better serve Americans, especially now when there are so many unemployed in our country.
Agreed Amanda, all I ask is that new immigrants be held to the same standards as have those in the past. In addition, it would be helpful for them not to insult the work ethic of the people whose country they are immigrating to.
I think it is fantastic that you are trying to do this! I suppose I am the minority of Hispanics when I say our leaders need to take a stand on this issue. My parents are immigrants from Cuba, they came to the U.S. before Cubans could even claim political asylum, and they did everything LEGALLY. As did my grandparents and many of my friends' families. I understand that many of these illegals come from countries whose governments are very corrupt, but that does not mean you disregard the laws of another country.