Lots of folks rant and rail against illegal immigrants, most of them Mexican. One of their first claims about illegal immigrants (IIs) is that they take jobs away from Americans.
However, the vast majority of IIs work for minimum wage doing boring, tedious jobs like mowing lawns or flipping burgers – jobs that most Americans would only take if they were desperate. IIs do our dirty work – the jobs that we don’t want to do. Not only are we ungrateful, we try to deport them at every turn. IIs are even prime targets for burglary, because they don’t report crimes to the police.
They come to the US because they’re desperate, and we seem to exploit that desperation. Next time you see a foriegn, shifty-looking guy mowing a lawn, thank him. Would you be willing to cut grass for $7.50 an hour?
