Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw plenty of day laborers hanging around outside Home Depot earlier this week just like usual. Which I was thankful for, because I sometimes hire them. I find them , on the whole, to be hard and efficient workers and I like helping them out. Also nice to just pay in cash.

I just had some work done on my house by a crew, none of whom spoke English.

They did a great job, and they cleaned up after themselves, and I could not be happier. I paid the owner of the company with a check. I don't know how his workers get paid.

This is what kills me about all this slamming of immigrants: They are filling jobs that need to be filled! They are great workers, at least the ones that I've hired. They work hard and do really excellent work. I had to wait months to get this crew to work on my house. Are they undocumented? I don't know, but I'm assuming because they've never learned English that, yes, probably. But I don't care. They are performing a useful, necessary service, they are skilled, and they are needed.

Believe me, there are plenty of handy non-illegals who can and will do the work at a reasonable rate. Americans like you are conditioned to paying for extremely cheap labor because you do not respect skilled trades. And you do get what you pay for. I've run across enough of these Hispanic laborers who don't know how to install higher end work (think, for example, a Soss hinge) because they don't have a solution based approach. They do ONLY what they know and can't figure out anything more complicated.
People like you refuse to pay a reasonable rate for knowledgeable labor.
Go to Europe. They pay reasonable rates for skilled labor because they are actually trained and know what they are doing. And they are respected as professionals.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Latina and have not noticed a decrease where I shop in Hayattsville, Laurel and Langley Park. I am not changing any of my shopping, work or life habits either. I won't carry my passport and won't live my life in fear. I believe there is a lot of fear mongering happening now that is not helping the Latino community.

I know it’s hard right now but please try to be more inclusive and use LatinX instead of “Latina.”

TIA !

Anonymous wrote:Safeway on Arlington Blvd was jammed lots of ICE profiled there.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw plenty of day laborers hanging around outside Home Depot earlier this week just like usual. Which I was thankful for, because I sometimes hire them. I find them , on the whole, to be hard and efficient workers and I like helping them out. Also nice to just pay in cash.

I just had some work done on my house by a crew, none of whom spoke English.

They did a great job, and they cleaned up after themselves, and I could not be happier. I paid the owner of the company with a check. I don't know how his workers get paid.

This is what kills me about all this slamming of immigrants: They are filling jobs that need to be filled! They are great workers, at least the ones that I've hired. They work hard and do really excellent work. I had to wait months to get this crew to work on my house. Are they undocumented? I don't know, but I'm assuming because they've never learned English that, yes, probably. But I don't care. They are performing a useful, necessary service, they are skilled, and they are needed.

Believe me, there are plenty of handy non-illegals who can and will do the work at a reasonable rate. Americans like you are conditioned to paying for extremely cheap labor because you do not respect skilled trades. And you do get what you pay for. I've run across enough of these Hispanic laborers who don't know how to install higher end work (think, for example, a Soss hinge) because they don't have a solution based approach. They do ONLY what they know and can't figure out anything more complicated.
People like you refuse to pay a reasonable rate for knowledgeable labor.
Go to Europe. They pay reasonable rates for skilled labor because they are actually trained and know what they are doing. And they are respected as professionals.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw plenty of day laborers hanging around outside Home Depot earlier this week just like usual. Which I was thankful for, because I sometimes hire them. I find them , on the whole, to be hard and efficient workers and I like helping them out. Also nice to just pay in cash.

I just had some work done on my house by a crew, none of whom spoke English.

They did a great job, and they cleaned up after themselves, and I could not be happier. I paid the owner of the company with a check. I don't know how his workers get paid.

This is what kills me about all this slamming of immigrants: They are filling jobs that need to be filled! They are great workers, at least the ones that I've hired. They work hard and do really excellent work. I had to wait months to get this crew to work on my house. Are they undocumented? I don't know, but I'm assuming because they've never learned English that, yes, probably. But I don't care. They are performing a useful, necessary service, they are skilled, and they are needed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a crazy thread full of trolls and bigots. I frequent several thrift stores in the dmv. All of them have been very quiet in the last two weeks. This week i asked people who worked there whether there were fewer people and the workers said yes, and added that they thought these customers might have been immigrants.

There is usually a wide range of ages, races and ethnicities at thrift stores. When i went out on Monday, it was easy to notice that most were white senior citizens.

I feel it is fair to ask where everyone else went. I hope they are safe.

Why don't you leave with them?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Latina and have not noticed a decrease where I shop in Hayattsville, Laurel and Langley Park. I am not changing any of my shopping, work or life habits either. I won't carry my passport and won't live my life in fear. I believe there is a lot of fear mongering happening now that is not helping the Latino community.

I know it’s hard right now but please try to be more inclusive and use LatinX instead of “Latina.”


TIA !

Anonymous wrote:This is a crazy thread full of trolls and bigots. I frequent several thrift stores in the dmv. All of them have been very quiet in the last two weeks. This week i asked people who worked there whether there were fewer people and the workers said yes, and added that they thought these customers might have been immigrants.

There is usually a wide range of ages, races and ethnicities at thrift stores. When i went out on Monday, it was easy to notice that most were white senior citizens.

I feel it is fair to ask where everyone else went. I hope they are safe.

Anonymous wrote:I am Latina and have not noticed a decrease where I shop in Hayattsville, Laurel and Langley Park. I am not changing any of my shopping, work or life habits either. I won't carry my passport and won't live my life in fear. I believe there is a lot of fear mongering happening now that is not helping the Latino community.

Anonymous wrote:I saw plenty of day laborers hanging around outside Home Depot earlier this week just like usual. Which I was thankful for, because I sometimes hire them. I find them , on the whole, to be hard and efficient workers and I like helping them out. Also nice to just pay in cash.