If the pay for the jobs that the undocumented immigrants do was higher, would Americans take those jobs?

michael

Americans take the jobs regardless of the pay. It's not true that "illegals do jobs that Americans don't want to do"

Ya heard me

the jobs were done before! This country does NOT depend on illegals so get the notion out of the head! I illegals became legal like they want, do you think they would work for less then any other citizen.........don't think so.

musicman812

I took those jobs when minimum wage was $4.25/hour...I worked 84 hours per week though in peak season...so it worked out.

Irrigating -- Weeding -- Driving Tractor -- Shop Work...that's what was available where I grew up.

Reagan

It's all a lie.

Very few of the jobs that ILLEGAL immigrants are doing are jobs that Americans don't want/won't do.

They just had a raid at a factory and they had to fire a ton of illegals. You know who was lined up for the jobs? AMERICANS!

The illegals take much more from our society than they provide. They are a drain 100%.

A big part of our mortgage crisis is from illegals getting loans for houses. Why did the banks do this? Because the government forced them to or else face audits. Audits are expensive and cause the public's faith in you to disappear. It doesn't matter if you've done nothing wrong.

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danrathersatitagain

If the illegal wasn't here, the pay would be higher. Yes. That's true.

rlstaehle

If the wages offered are high enough for citizens, and legal immigrants to pay their bills, then the illegals wouldn't have those jobs. There is no such thing as illegals doing the jobs that Americans wont, rather the illegals are doing the jobs that Americans can't afford to do.(Unless we are willing to start living like third worlders)

dipstick

No need to raise the pay now, Americans are doing those jobs.

There are no jobs Americans won't do, that's a farce put out there by racist pro-illeglas to defend their "people" so they are allowed to break the law without guilt, it's rather pathetic.

Precious Love

of course! some of the jobs they do we once did but they came along and took them because they were willing to accept less pay.

my grandfather work for a company for 16yrs making $31hr and he was laid off because the company moved to mexico (less pay)

Diablo

Americans are already doing those jobs, what are you talking about? All you have to do is walk outside to see that, any moron knows Americas do any and all jobs.

nighteagal44

yes they would and i think they should pick all of them up and put them on a slow boat to china never to return Again EVER....

Rob

Yes, and Americans would pay taxes and stay off welfare.

Barrack Urkel

Some would ...

AngelaTC

Of course! Illegal labor is half the reason our wages did not rise as much as inflation.

Rick J

If Americans could work without paying taxes and get free health care and food stamps and all the other welfare that Illegal aliens get. We could work for same pay as the Illegal does and make out better than now. Americans don't have that advantage.There are laws that americans have to abide by. Where illegals don't abide by any of our laws,if so they wouldn't be here.

Patti

Strange question. Because where I used to work even the documented workers wouldn't take the full-time permanent jobs that had benefits. It was too hard for them, and some of the legal immigrants ended up quitting and going back to their home countries, said life was easier there. Mostly Americans working at those jobs and they are having to get contract companies to fill in because there aren't enough workers to fill the jobs, the contractors quit after a couple months too.

GreasyTony

Did McCain win? They say this, they say that, but why are farms still struggling to find workers? So my answer is HELL NO!
http://www.slate.com/id/2157483/?nav=tap3
What are the jobs Americans won't do?

What are these jobs that Americans will not do? Do they exist? Or are they a figment of the business community's imagination? It turns out that their claims are largely trueâ€”there are plenty of jobs Americans avoid. Let's take a tour of them. Americans shun pretty much any unskilled labor that requires them to get their hands dirty: landscaping, entry-level construction, picking fruits and vegetables (Reuters reports that "up to 70 percent of U.S. farm workers are estimated to be undocumented, totaling about 500,000 people"), cleaning hotel rooms, busing tables, and prep cooking in urban restaurants.

But the refusal to do jobs is moving up the value chain. American workers appear to be less interested in some kinds of factory jobs. The Washington Post, for example, recently reported that Georgia's carpet factories are increasingly dominated by Mexican immigrant workers.

Americans, it seems, are also less willing to take stressful jobs that require lots of training and long hours, and that require them to work in unpleasant environments. For example, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing is warning of a nursing shortage. This survey from the American Hospital Association says there are 118,000 nursing vacancies in the United States. Meanwhile, a 2003 report by the Council on Graduate Medical Education suggested there could be a shortage of anywhere from 65,000 to 150,000 doctors in 2020. (Given the time it takes to educate and train a physician, it's not too soon to worry.)

Joe from WI

Yes they would but the employers would be less productive because they have less workers.

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