“Americans won’t do those jobs” is the worst argument for mass immigration ever

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a cultural truth that Americans feel superior in ways that they shouldn't. They simply won't be picking fruit in 100 degree heat if they can collect unemployment. As poor as a poor American us you need to see what poor us like in India and around the world. Mississippi poor or whatever southern state poor is still not that poor.

Working in a steel mill or coal mining is not the same as washing dishes and farming in the heat. It's just culturally different I can't explain it. As an immigrant however, it's something I feel. Not sure that the question of labor by illegal immigrants is about the ability to substitute them out by mass American labor force when you understand this truth. Not suggesting poor won't work but that the kind of work they may accept simply is if a certain kind.

This why don't like "high skilled" immigrants. They tend to be from upper echelons of society in these other countries and are quite fine with crushing people's souls. It's like being in the cubicles in grad school and hearing the Indian CS students talk about the "other castes".

I know the rich tech folk and California Democrats like the caste system, they brought the Indians here to implement their tech caste with their tiered schemes, but I don't like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It isn’t a great argument, I agree. It is also a very true statement.

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It is true for some sectors and some areas though. The farms are not generally located in places with enough native born low skill workers for them to use local help. It’s just not there. I work for an ag sector that uses a lot of immigrant labor and the farmers pay pretty high wages but simply cannot get Americans to want to do those jobs.

It’s different if you’re talking about other jobs in more urban areas. For instance we need 0 more h1B visas right now. The CS market is flooded and AI is shedding jobs. Cxl all the H1B visas and you will fix part of the problem there.

[Anonymous]

So OP, have you put in your job application to go pick strawberries? You say Americans will do those jobs, so you should be the first to lead the way. Hop to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So OP, have you put in your job application to go pick strawberries? You say Americans will do those jobs, so you should be the first to lead the way. Hop to it.

Have you filled out your application to be in the Democrat primary? They're looking for the next loser.