Do you agree that Immigrants do the jobs your lazy kids won't?

Question

Immigrants do the jobs your lazy kids won't

"You know," I said. "It's worth mentioning that not only do illegal immigrants do jobs that Americans won't do, but many of the jobs they're doing were once done by young people in their teens and 20s - your sons and daughters - who, as a generation, have shown themselves to have a terrible work ethic."

My point was that besides better immigration laws and better enforcement, we also need better parenting - the sort that produces young people who know how to work and aren't afraid to break a sweat.

Then, the employers I've heard from - apple growers in Washington, restaurant owners in North Carolina, etc. - who claim they can't find young Americans who want to work wouldn't feel as if they had to hire illegal immigrants to pick up the slack.

Many of these kids were raised to believe that they were "special" and now they consume a steady diet of "American Idol"-type reality shows where the right break, and the right amount of talent, can make you rich and famous overnight.

When they do show up in the workplace, many young people are - according to those who supervise them - notoriously tough to manage. They dress like slobs, question authority, shrug off criticism and impatiently wonder why, if they start in the mailroom on Monday, they're not on their way to being vice president by Friday.

Answer 1

yess they do!! and I hate that people keep on saying that they get the jobs because they pay them less! is not true....  they get it because they are better at it and because they know how hard life is unlike other kids they been thinking they are special and they don't have to do that like work hard or anything!! so please people don't be saying immigrants are criminals cause they are not!!!

    

Answer 2

Nope just another thoroughly disproven urban myth. I see you're back to cutting and pasting propaganda again.

Why is it I seem to recall lots of American kids out in the fields where I grew up either weeding with the no longer used short handled hoes or bending over picking lettuce, watermellons, carrots, picking citrus etc...

Answer 3

that is not true.

people are starting to get desperate about getting a job.

i haven't been able to find a job for a little over a year now.  i don't care what i get paid, i don't care if i have to cater to someone 50 miles away, i really want a job and i can't seem to get it.

and we were doing just fine before all these illegals came, so what's the difference now?

Answer 4

Yes, that explains why customer service has gone down so much in this country.

Answer 5

You're vastly incorrect.  Illegal immigrants do those jobs for less money than citizens or legal immigrants will.  That's their punishment for their crime.

Answer 6

No country, not America the UK or any country needs immigrants.It is a myth. The UK for example had a BETTER diet in WW2 and this was when most men were involved in the war effort.  Politicians want to make the UK into a bigger industrial estate island for other reasons, not because we need anybody

Answer 7

No,my kid isn't old enough to work seeing as he's only 6 and he's had chores since he was about 4 so I doubt he'll be lazy. I don't think laziness is the issue with American kids, it's the fact that they can't get the jobs because selfish border hopping criminals have taken them.

Answer 8

My family raises everything we eat.  Only when we go out to eat, or purchase staples such as flour, coffee, etc. do we expose ourselves to potentially illegal alien touched foods.  My kids work with us to raise and process all our foods, have their chores, and work jobs the illegals and most americans would not do.  We are self sufficient.  My children have been raised with a great work ethic and are proud of themselves, their work, their accomplishments and their country!  Our family despises illegal aliens invading this country as our elected representatives look past the problem.

Answer 9

our kids are not lazy but they quickly become higher educated where they can have better jobs than illegal immigrants have.. in other words they get jobs at movie theaters, retail stores, etc...

Answer 10

I totally agree with you  

Answer 11

If a decent wage was paid and work safety was taken into consideration Americans would take the jobs. And let me ask you would you work in a field all day with no bathroom facilities? Would you stand in the sun all day with no relief? No one in their right mind would. There is machinery avail, but won't be bought because it is expensive and they can illegals alot cheaper. We used to be a nation of progress, now we are at a standstill. Why build better machinery when illegals workers are so abundant and cheap.

Answer 12

I have actually answered this question before using my brother as an example. He had started a job with Fudrucker's (however you spell it) and quit within a month. His explanation was that he thought the outfit was stupid, was tired of having to miss out on all the social gatherings with his friends, didn't want to work in a "grease pit flipping frozen cow parts," and didn't get paid enough to take customer's s*** (even though I think $7.50 an hour to ask "would you like that super-sized" is more than fair for a teenager in our state).

But the proof extends beyond my little corner of the world. Look at America as a whole. Studies have proven (I'm not wasting the time to look up the umpteen links anyone can find if they take 2 minutes of interest to do so), American teenagers suffer severe issues ranging from depression to obesity - much of which is contributed to an alarming increase in laziness due to the advancement of technology. Children are spending more time today in front of television sets, computers and video games. To add insult to injury, parents are consumed with jumping through corporate hurdles with the false hope they may win the "rat race." The results of this uptrend is a downward spiral in the values American society once held dear - that hard work and discipline can provide for a successful future - because there are no parent figures (not really ANY figures with real authority) to instruct today's children in developing a proper work ethic.

So to state that today's teens are lacking work due to illegal immigrants (or anyone else, for that matter) taking their jobs is not only an ignorant proclaimation, but an irresponsible one as well.

It is time parents stepped up to the plate and claimed their rightful responsibilities before they further endanger their own children's future. They are what we breed, ya' know.

Answer 13

I think you are correct, sadly.  It's the "everyone wins" mentality.  But I think there is more to it.  I think that with so much illegal immigration, the wages have dropped to a point that they are so low, most won't do the work for the wage.   So while I do indeed agree with the premise of your question, I think it is made worse by the wage issue.  

Answer 14

No, not at all.  The criminal illegal alien invaders are TAKING the jobs from the high school student and college students.  Those jobs used to give the kids money to pay for car insurance and college tuition.  

My kids worked and worked hard to get those things that I could not afford to just hand over to them.  There is nothing wrong with their work attitudes and habits.

In my area, they are no longer available.

Answer 15

Nope. Not every kid in America is lazy or gets things handed to them on a silver platter.

My son has worked night shift in maintenance scrubbing the filthy toilets for the last three years. Working to put himself through school. This week and next he will be working picking peaches at the local fruit orchard. He picked strawberries there earlier in the season.

There are still young people that realize that you have to work at whatever job you can get to support yourself. Luckily our local orchard will only hire local help and would never hire an illegal. Gives the kids around here a chance.

Answer 16

There are no jobs Americans won't do, just wages they won't accept.

Let's say you own a business and there are two people applying for a job there.

#1 Person is a HS graduate who was born and raised in the USA so he speaks English and can do the job. However, he expects to be paid minimum wage or better and receive a proper pay check stub according to the law.

#2 Person is an illegal Mexican with little English but can do the job. Since he's hungry and undocumented, he will work for LESS than minimum wage in Cash so there's no paper trail or withholding taxes, circumventing the law.

Who would YOU hire?

Answer 17

I think you are making a good point here, however I think these issues goes far beyond that point.

Corporate America has become so greedy that corporations only want big fat checks for corporate executives and hourly salaries still out reality to make a decent living.

Companies are trying to save money by hiring illegal work force so I think we need also to address that part of the equation as well.

One side we have kids rise to be special and thinking they deserve everything without any effort, on the other side corporation wants to make more money by reducing its payroll at any cost.

I think people like Lou Dobbs & Glenn Beck contribute to this type of situation by saying immigrants "steal" jobs for americans but I have never hear them complaing about greedy corporations trying to make an extra buck by hiring illegals or asking the special kids to clean hotel beds or mower the lawn!!