Labor & Economic News Blog

Monday, May 01, 2006

An invisible army of workers strikes for the right to be seen

An invisible army of workers strikes for the right to be seen
Source: Sunday Times

US wants it both ways – closed borders and cheap labour

THE best place to witness America’s immigration dilemma is not the US-Mexican border.
Go instead to any suburban school and see the Latino nanny, an illegal immigrant, picking up the children while their middle-class parents are still at work. Or stand outside any office block in the evening, and watch the Mexican janitors go in to scrub out the toilets as the suited workers go home.

Or go to any American meat-packing plant, construction site or tomato field and see the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants employed, at low wages, to do jobs most native-born Americans do not want.

America’s reliance on illegal immigrant labour — to keep the economy buzzing, prices low and the standard of living higher than anywhere else in the world — is the worst-kept secret in the US economy.

 



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