When someone comes over the border and is looking for a job, often they go to light manufacturing non-union areas to find work and of course there is always lots to do. Many light fabrication businesses hire the illegal aliens. I have noticed this in Houston, San Antonio, Baton Rouge, El Paso, Phoenix, LA, Memphis, Chicago, Sacramento, San Diego, Miami, Jacksonville and Atlanta. Actually other places too, but this is what comes to mind. I would like to discuss the trailer welding jobs done by illegal aliens in TX, I understand the need to by pass the OSHA laws, with regards to welding and the high costs of workmen's compensation, but if we are not going to follow the laws, shouldn't we revise them or change them? I spend a lot of time trying to get laws changed especially some of the 5,000,000 and one laws that effect our business, but we try to abide by them as best we can until they are changed. If we are not going to follow the rules and use illegal aliens to do the work, then why not just move the whole damn thing to Mexico and that way the labor can work there where they live instead of breaking laws to get here and then using American Dollars and shipping them back home anyway. Also the top third of Mexico ought to be a dollar driven economy now, not peso, makes no sense. (Same with all of Argentina.) The US should also volunteer to do both sides of the border for the Mexican government, if they say no? Insist in a very strong but nice way. As I watched people going both ways it appeared that there could be stolen cars and other things going into Mexico that probably shouldn't be there. To really control the borders it is necessary to worry about what leaves almost as much as what comes in. Anyway do think on this observation of mine. |
