Heres a story from someone who truly doesnt believe that illegal immagrants do the work that Americans shouldnt do...
When I was seventeen I was 6'2"and weighed 155 pounds. That summer I took a job in a Dole Pineapple plant where for 12 hours a day, six days a week for three months I had to lift, carry, throw, and stack 100 pound sacks of cattle feed. Working on the loading dock one day where the sacks were filled, it was my job to pick up a bag from two automatic filling machines and carry them eight feet or so to the edge of the dock and throw them into a truck. The two filling machines produced four bags a minute. That is 240 an hour and 2,880 a shift. At 100 pounds each that was 144 tons.
It was hot, humid, dusty, stunk and I was paid minimum wage – with an agricultural exemption from any overtime. While Tennessee Ernie Ford wrote a song entitled "Sixteen Tons" about mining coal, we didn't get any songs written about us doing 144 tons – you just did the job.
When I started that job I could barely pick up a 100 pound bag with two hands. At the end of the summer I still weighed 155 pounds but could pick up a bag with each hand and fling it ten feet. I also learned that it wasn't the kind of work I wanted to be doing for the rest of my life.
Many of the people reading this report have similar stories and work experiences. These are the jobs that legal immigrants, students, and the working poor have been doing for the last 100 years. The jobs were not done by illegal aliens. Do we need a bona fide guest worker program to allow seasonal migrant workers from Mexico to come in and earn money picking lettuce? Probably, but I am tired of hearing that illegal aliens are only doing the work that Americans won't do because that is BS – I've done that work. I even did it in December 2006 when I spent five and a half hours snow shoveling 36 inches of snow from my around my and one of my neighbor's Colorado homes. I didn't want to do that work either but I did it because it had to be done. Where were all the illegal aliens when you really needed them?
- A March 2006 article in The Christian Science Monitor by Ron Scherer.
This shows that they are not needed in our lives and they shouldnt be there as it is. Illegal aliens are a waste in this country and their are multiple reasons to prove this. They shouldnt be taking jobs away from Americans and thats just how it is.
Schurman-Kauflin, Deborah, and P. F. Wagner. "Impacts of Illegal Immigration:
Jobs." www.usillegalaliens.com. Ed. Dan Amato. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Oct.
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That was a really good article to pick. The story really described the hard work that Americans still have to do, despite the belief that illegal immigrants are benefiting America by doing all the work nobody else wants to do. It further proves the point that Americans can do anything illegal immigrants can do and that we do not need them here. And that is just how it is, you're right.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your argument on illegal immigration and I really liked this post of yours because it included a story from someone who is a legal U.S. citizen that does strenuous labor that people think only the illegal immigrants do. I think that they are taking jobs from the legal citizens of this country and they are actually costing us money. Illegal Immigration is unfair to the rest of Americans who came here legally and there needs to be a stop to it.
ReplyDelete-nice job on finding good, relevant information to your argument. Good job Josher!!!