Subj : Re: All expense paid trip
To   : KURT WEISKE
From : Mike Powell
Date : Wed Apr 23 2025 08:12 am

> It's been well known here in California that we can either have undocumented
> workers harvesting fruits and vegetables or Americans can pay $12 for a head

> lettuce.

> With corporate-driven inflation, we may get both.

Many, many years ago, before South Asian migration was as big in this part
of the country, I remember having several discussions with someone who
supposedly had an "IT degree."  They were claiming that immigrants were
"taking their jobs" and they couldn't get one.  He meant those from South
of the border.

When I pointed out that the jobs they were taking where harvesting fruits
and veg, working on horse farms, etc., he said he believed they were taking
jobs from other Americans who were then taking jobs slightly better, etc.,
and that ripple effect was eventually causing his professional office job to
be taken.

I would point out that (1) the jobs the immigrants were taking were mostly
ones Americans didn't want to do, and (2) the ones "squeezed up" could only
take his job if they were also qualified.

I was eventually convinded that it was all just a cover for spending his
life living with his parents.


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