Collins Report

By Kevin “Coach” Collins

One of the enduring lies about illegal aliens is that they do the jobs Americans won’t do. This lie is designed to fool people into believing illegals are just harmless gardeners or drywall hangers who only want to work and fill a need in the labor market that would otherwise go wanting.

Here’s some truth

A recent USA Today article outlined the realities of our sorry employment situation and why efforts to find and deport illegal aliens are a very valuable job protecting step that has to be repeated again and again.

It cites a Vanderbilt University study on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids on workplaces that are notoriously overwhelmingly staffed by illegal aliens concluding they are very beneficial for local legal aliens and native born Americans.

An ICE raid at Swift Meats plant was a case in point. The plant’s illegals were replaced by hundreds of both native Whites and legal Hispanics.

In North Carolina a plant was raided recently. Before the raid its employees were 80% Hispanic illegals now 70% of its workers are African American citizens enjoying good pay and benefits.

A Center for Immigration Studies paper “Jobs Americans Don’t do?” continues the story of how the media and the Democrats distort the truth about the impact of illegal aliens on our workforce.

There are 93 listed occupations with 20% or more of their workers who are immigrants, but more than 23 million native born American citizens work in those occupations. In these “high immigrant” occupations 57% of the American workers have low education levels. Certainly that percentage could be higher were it not for illegals taking America jobs.

The very high unemployment rate (52%) among young people under 24 Blacks and legal Hispanics could be ameliorated with more ICE raids.

Why won’t Obama order them?

The facts tell the story. High unemployment rates of young people 18 to 24; Blacks at over 15% and legal Hispanics over 12% say Americans will do any job to support themselves and their families. Obama’s plan apparently does not include helping these American citizens because he “has” them already. He wants to keep bring in new “Americans” to stack public opinion in his favor.

Hiring illegals and minimum wage laws hurts us all

The employers who cut corners and greedily hire illegals so they don’t have to pay taxes and benefits on them are shameful and poor excuses for Americans.

When they turn their backs on American workers they are guilty of sabotaging our economy. It’s as simple as that.

Continually rising minimum wage limits forced on businesses by liberals have finally caught up with us. Liberals must share the blame as well.

They place high pressures on businesses to not pay higher wages to those who have no experience or educational credentials when they can pay lower wages and no benefits to equally unqualified illegal aliens.

This day in history October 4

1775: The Massachusetts House of Representatives orders the overseers of Harvard College “to inquire into the principles” of its staff and to “dismiss those who, by their past or present conduct, appear to be unfriendly to the liberties and privileges of the Colonies.”

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