SAME! I live in a rural area of the US that is ~ 96% white.

My friend told me his blue collar co-workers were bitching about "immigrants stealing our jobs," and he's certain most of them have never even met an immigrant.

November 25, 2024 - 18:13 UTC

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The blue collar workers will be happy to know that mass deportation will open up lots of construction, farm, and landscaping jobs to choose from.
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They might have, but they can’t tell, ‘cause we’re white. 🙄 I get “oh, I love your accent!”, not “go back to [country]”.
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A bunch of them think Puerto Ricans are undocumented immigrants.
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We are all immigrants in the USA.
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I, a Canadian, have a friend who once told me we should send all immigrants back where they came from because they deserved to be here less than him as his grandparents came in 1952. I said by your logic you go back to where you came from because my 9th great grandfather came here in the 1600s.
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Shut the guy right up
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And it's interesting how often the same people complaining about 'immigrants stealing their jobs' also complain about immigrants 'being lazy', like which is it?
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🤣
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Some time ago, Fox did a story interviewing people who were outraged that Mexicans were sneaking of the border and stealing their jobs. This was in Alaska.
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I live in an agricultural area. Getting people to come and harvest the fruit and things that can’t be done with machines is difficult, because it’s hard work and doesn’t pay well. Used to be migrant workers would come up, do the work, get paid and bring it back to their families.
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Just a guess, but do American citizens actually want the jobs immigrants are stealing?
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They wouldn’t last a day in those jobs.
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Absolutely not. Florida found this out firsthand after they passed som strict laws around immigrant workers. Their entire justice system had to come out and say they weren't going to enforce the law because their economy immediately took a hit from all the jobs that suddenly had no one to do them
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I had my roof replaced last year, all Mexicans. Only one spoke English. Got house painted a month later, same situation. But every bid I got was given by a white guy…🤔
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Not usually. After high school summer jobs in the tomato fields, I went to college.
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Worked harvesting fruit in my younger days. No, there weren’t any white people doing it.
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Oh the jobs immigrants are doing are black jobs- u know the jobs DT thinks black ppl should be doing 😒
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No! Usually the jobs are physical, dangerous, too or too cold!
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Noooooo
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Exactly
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Not at all. Most jobs that are available to any kind of immigrants here are mostly field work, laundry, cleaning services, lawn care, and manufacturing factories. All labor intensive jobs no one wants to do.
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Its not the job stealing most people are worried about; Its the depression of wages caused by the number of workers diluting the workforce.
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Oh hell no. Undocumented immigrants do the hardest, worst jobs out there.
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BAM!!!! Hellllllll No!!! Does that help???
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No! Who is going to get out there early and work in the heat and any other conditions. Look how many people still work from the comfort of their home!!
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Not at all. Removing the people who grow and pick your food, clean your bathrooms and hotels and homes, care for your aging parents, clean and build your streets and roadways and fight your Wars never ends well.
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There are a lot of job openings here at the fields in Oxnard California but the people who are working the fields are just Latinos/as.
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The Brits here most certainly don't!
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Nope. Most of the jobs immigrants take are the ones the citizens won't do. The immigrants are very hard workers and for the majority of them, they are so thankful to be here, they will do almost any job. They also get a lot of abuse from some really shitty employers as well.
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There is no such thing as a stolen job in the first place. Nobody can just show up in your place and start receiving your paycheck. In the highly unlikely event that any immigrant ends up in your job, it's because your boss/company *gave* your job to that immigrant.
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From somebody in the trades who does this work on a daily basis. I can assure you there were PLENTY of legally documented tradespeople who wanted those jobs. Just not for circa 2000 wages.
My wage adjusted for inflation should pay 78.00 an hour.
You’d be lucky to get 55.00 right now.
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