e to take positions traditionally held by low-skilled Americans such jobs as trash collectors, janitors, maids, cook, waiters, and waitresses, butlers, food handlers, slaughter house workers and countless other positions, this cheap labor is threatening to make a major segment of America unemployable.Sometimes the employer intentionally replaces citizens with non-citizens in order to have a cheaper and more easily exploited workforce. Sometimes the job displacement comes through an intermediary in these cases work is let out to subcontractors. The firms that use immigrants and pay them low wages underbid the firms that use native. In some cases the ultimate employer may not even be aware that native workers have been displaced. The effects on Americans are real as the immigration and naturalization service put it. ‘The critical potential negative impacts of immigrants are displacement of incumbent worker groups from their jobs and wage depression for those who remain in the affected sector” another clear case of displacement happened in the tomato industry in the 1980’s. A group of unionized legal immigrants picked the tomato crop for many years in San Diego County and were making four dollars an hour in 1980. In the 1980s growers switched to a crew of illegal aliens and lowered the wage to three thirty five. Almost all the veteran workers who were unwilling to work at the reduced rate disappeared from the tomato fields.We as Americans deserve decent jobs at decent wages not unfair competition from foreign workers who are exploited to the point of modern slavery. We need immigration reform to stop the massive influx of foreign workers from doing further harm to the living standards of our low skilled fellow citizens and legal resident workers.It simply is not right to put America at risk by giving the money our citizens paid into the system away to non-citizens who came here for a handout. The level of immigr...
