[Winona] those jobs all would have been filled regardless

[LindaF]

  In my opinion they should work here legally. I am under the impression that illegals are not able to get SS benefits or any other type of aid because they don't have a SS number. Is this correct?
  And to be honest, well, a lot of the Mexicans do manual labor that Americans just don't want to do.  How many Americans do you know personally who would milk cows for a shift of 8 hours? And then want to work  more if they could? 
  I know of 2 young men who would do it, that's it and I used to be in the dairy farming industry.  You just cannot find people, especially young people, who want to do physical, hard, manual labor such as farming. Be it milking cows or harvesting crops.
  Linda Fort

  [Winona Online Democracy]




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  All those jobs and figures you just presented would have been constant and remained in our economy regardless, they just would have been filled by LEGAL residents or at least here on a work permit/visa. To imply that all those "contributions" the illegal workers made to our economy is misleading. If anything, they hurt the legal worker by driving down his/her paycheck. This fact alone should be something anyone with a politically left bend should embrace..this is one of the hurdles to getting fair wages to all American workers( over 9,000,000 skilled jobs are filled by illegal immigrants at below market wages)..

  Again I ask, What is wrong with requiring residents and those working in tyhe US to be here legitimately? 


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