[M.T. Pockets]

Blktail, I agree it is much harder to get people to do the jobs that new immigrants are willing to do. It's been that way since this country started, the new immigrants have always done the dirty work.

The employer I was speaking of earlier had a full staff of local people working for them, $12 - $15 an hour jobs. The stockholders hired new management, first thing they did was fire EVERYBODY. I don't know how they did it. The same day they had immigrants that couldn't speak a word of english working for them for $2 - $5 an hour less. With some tricky accounting they avoid overtime. No benefits either.

What it comes down to is money. Stockholders want a return at any cost to society as we know it.

It is not just blue collar "dirty work" that is going elsewhere. Just talk to any computer engineer who lost their job to India.