That’s a bs answer. I see it daily. Not being able to get workers.
The migrants are here because a lot of Americans don’t want to work.
I have Guatemalans, Hondurans etc picking vegetables all around me at $15-$18 a hour cash. No deductions and housing is provided free.
Oh and I forget the ones shucking oysters , and working the seafood houses
You can now apply with the government to “sponsor” migrant workers. You have to provide a living wage and housing.
I also know plenty of American citizens that won’t work because they get more living off the governments tit.
I had one man I hired to was cars a few years ago.
Gave him a bicycle to ride 2 miles to my house? I would then give him a ride the rest of the way to work. Told him if the weather was bad I would come pick him up.
After 2 weeks he came to me and told me he had to quit. He went on to explain he was getting more from welfare that I was paying. He told me he needed at least 18 a hour to get what he was getting from the govt for free. That was 10-12 years ago.
We as a society are screwed
Well I believe that BS answer is factual; and you did bring up a good point about the migrants being here, but migrants are often preferred employees by American companies because they almost universally DECLINE employer health care - so companies don't have to pony up for the employer contribution and of course those immigrants are willing to live in conditions that Americans usually are not.... Like living 10 people deep in a 3 bedroom house.
The immigrants are also here because they know they can collect welfare as well, in the Texas construction industry it goes something like this......
Your illegal and use a false or stolen SS# - you work and have minimal if any taxes taken out and decline healthcare coverage. Meanwhile your girlfriend/mother of your children files for state benefits and does NOT claim your income as if you don't live in the house - This allows her to collect housing, food stamps & often cash benefits.
Oh and you can use the SS# of your anchor babies to claim the child tax credit - which is an unearned tax credit so you can literally make thousands of dollars profit simply by filing a tax return.
You see illegal immigrants are better than slaves for employers ...... Think about it - you pay them what you want and the government subsidizes the low wages with food stamps and housing allowances and healthcare.
Have another kid on the way?.... no worries just go to the hospital when her water breaks and skip the bill, your child gets a SS# regardless and the cost gets passed onto the insured and tax payers.
Think this isn't an issue, than consider this..... 50% of the babies born in parkland hospital in Dallas in 2022 were born to parents illegally in the USA
