Are todays illegal low wage workers yesterdays slave labor?

I support the AZ law, not because republicans have the right idea or intentions, but because illegal immigration is not going to solve the problems of ordinary Mexicans or other Latin American natives or ordinary Americans.



150 years ago southern American elites got rich by having slaves work the fields at the expense of the overall southern economic progress. The northern American elites profitted off this labor by manufacturing/trade. Everyone wearing a cotton shirt paid less because a slave did not have to get paid.



Isnt Mexico now the equivalent of the south with Calderon and his minions as the plantation owners and the US is the self-rightous north whose government (Corporations that own it via the politicians) profit off of it.



Maybe it is time for ordinary Americans to quit supporting a government that profits off illegal and cheap foreign labor. To do the right thing and employ themselves and pay more for goods that they produce themselves. Why don't we do the illegals that are here the best favor we can for them: Send them home where they can fight for a decent place and get ride of these profiteers on both side of the border that manipulate us and kill our countries for their own personal profit?Are todays illegal low wage workers yesterdays slave labor?
the browns are the blacks of old-----they are just too stupido to know it.
Economists claim globalization is responsible

for about one-fifth of the decline in blue-collar pay since 1973.

As globalization accelerates,

the unskilled American worker is increasingly placed at a distinct disadvantage,

and when added with a torrent of (ILLEGAL) immigration,

this has shoved many hourly wage occupations

into a "worldwide, discount labor store

stocked with cheap temps,

hungry part-timers,

and dollar-a-day labor in India, Mexico, and China."



More than 28 million Americans earn less than $9.04 per hour,

representing about 25% of the workforce between the ages of 18 and 64 -

many of these are elderly widows.



Of these millions, approximately 20% are foreign-born, mostly from Mexico.



Over the next decade, five of the ten fastest-growing jobs

will be of the menial, dead-end variety,

including retail clerks, cashiers, and janitors,

(according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics)



Curbing the flood of unskilled immigration - both legal and illegal -

would ease some of the gravitational pressure on low-end paying jobs.

(According to a study conducted by Harvard Professor George J. Borjas)



Among his findings:



By increasing the supply of labor between 1980 and 2000,

Illegal Immigration reduced the average annual earnings of American men

by an estimated $1,700 or roughly 4%.



Among Americans without a high school education,

who roughly correspond to the poorest tenth of the workforce,

the estimated impact was even larger, reducing their wages by 7.4%.



The 10 million American workers without a high school degree

face the most competition from Illegal Immigrants,

as do the 8 million younger Americans with only a high school education

and 12 million younger college graduates.



The reduction in earnings occurs

regardless of whether the immigrants are legal or illegal,

permanent or temporary.

It is the presence of additional workers that reduces wages, not their status.



There are over 600,000 American registered nurses not working as nurses,

and countless other nurses who have become independent nurses.

Why?

It鈥檚 about the money.

Hospitals refuse to pay nurses enough to keep American nurses interested in the job,

and refuse to hire independent nurses.



Instead of raising the pay to fit the job, hospitals have decided

to call what is really lack of interest in the job for the pay being offered, a 鈥榮hortage".



Hospitals would much rather have

the cheaper indentured servant they can have

by hiring foreign nurses who fear deportation if they don't do exactly as asked.



All this alleged "shortage" has created some new loopholes

that allow massive numbers of foreign nurses to flood the US market.



Each year, 10% of nurses,

of the recently 鈥揼raduated and of those who work in IMSS, ISSSTE

and the Secretar铆a de Salud [Mexican government health-care providers],

migrate to the U.S., Spain and the U.K.

In the first five months of 2004,

1000 Mexican nurses went to the U.S., 200 to Spain and 50 to the U.K.



And it鈥檚 not just those in the health care industry.

The lowering of salary and the hiring of non-white immigrants

due to alleged worker shortages

also applies to many "white collar" jobs in the computer, data, and technician industries.















Short Answer ....



We Are ALL Becoming Enslaved By The Growing Global EconomyAre todays illegal low wage workers yesterdays slave labor?
NOOOOOOO.................. by saying brown you are inserting race. Need to stick with the issues the race bait don't work no more. Now, if you want to getreal about it and speak about the influx of illegal immigrants, then I can say, " more like indentured servents" , they will be treated poorly in the U.S., as well as in Mexico. The people of Mexico will continue to be poor, and will continue to" help" drag down the standard of living in the U.S. until the boarders are shut down, and Mexico is forced to take care of its people.



To many times in this argument, I see the small folks on both sides of the fence getting into a shouting match, but we need to understand that this is because of our governments, and corporations abusing us. We need to stand out aginst the ones that are using the U.S. as a steam valve to keep a revolution from happening in Mexico.



.................and yes, I do think another revolution in Mexico would be a good thing for its people.
the are no moor cheap labor they wan to mack 15.00 and up. i have a trouble to fine one lest that 15 d