FED left rates unchanged

[Dublin ohio]

the impact of illegals in the workforce has been a depressant for wage increases - many are working cash only and as noted in the report, many are unlikely to respond to surveys leading to an under-counting. Take a small company that has an official 48 employees to stay below the threshold where they are forced to pay for healthcare. If you need extra workers, you "contract" to some legal for a fixed amount and the contractor provides the bodies independent of the company. Even large companies use "contractors" and could care less what they are paying people. The people who janitor for Wal-mart - contractors. Yard maintenance and mowing - contractors. Tyson chicken catching crews - contractors. They even sub out the live haul trucking, feed delivery and delivery of baby chicks to the farmers. One of my hay customers was laid off from Tyson's only to be rehired by the contractor who took over that service - at a lower salary of course, and no health benefits.

Residential construction is the same way. Builders sub out almost everything. Foundation, framing, roofing, siding, drywall, painting, landscaping are all dominated by non english speaking employees.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

non english speaking employees.

While we have a lot of second generation, US citizen Hispanics, when you encounter someone who does not speak English at all, you can be pretty sure that they were not born here and are not legal citizens. I've not seen a roofing crew in years that wasn't all-Hispanic. Same with most lawncare services, waterline and sewer laying crews, etc.

 

[Fernando]

While we have a lot of second generation, US citizen Hispanics, when you encounter someone who does not speak English at all, you can be pretty sure that they were not born here and are not legal citizens. I've not seen a roofing crew in years that wasn't all-Hispanic. Same with most lawncare services, waterline and sewer laying crews, etc.

Same here. And when my local town subcontract to a waterline/sewer company to do work, the workers were Hispanic. Immigrants help our economy moving.

 

[Joe Flacco]

They should have a lot of visas available for those construction and landscaping jobs so that they don't have to be illegal.

Crack down on illegal immigration but offer a lot more opportunity for legal immigration.

 

[Dublin ohio]

They should have a lot of visas available for those construction and landscaping jobs so that they don't have to be illegal.

Crack down on illegal immigration but offer a lot more opportunity for legal immigration.

When I had my first construction job in 1970. 99.9% of the workers were citizens. As the "immigrant" numbers have increased over the years. They have depressed wages and displaced all of the citizen workers. Plain and simple.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

hey should have a lot of visas available for those construction and landscaping jobs so that they don't have to be illegal.

Crack down on illegal immigration but offer a lot more opportunity for legal immigration.

Again, illegals are competing with the Americans who need the jobs most and in doing so, depress wages. When my house was built in 1992, not one single contractor was Hispanic...not the roofing crew, nor concrete workers, not anyone. 10 years later when a storm ripped my roof off and damaged my hay barn, the crews were all white except for one black guy. 10 years later, it's hard to find a white guy or black guy contracting work for building.

 

[Dublin ohio]

Immigrants help our economy moving.

At the expense of citizens

 

[Fernando]

When I had my first construction job in 1970. 99.9% of the workers were citizens. As the "immigrant" numbers have increased over the years. They have depressed wages and displaced all of the citizen workers. Plain and simple.

If not for them, housing/building costs be even higher.

 

[Dublin ohio]

If not for them, housing/building costs be even higher.

Strawman

 

[Fernando]

Amazon used to have good deals. Shoppers know their prices.
Also, how can Amazon make money when I purchase a $4 item delivered next day?

Also, other sites like Temu has cheaper prices than Amazon. Competitors eating away Amazon market share.