get locals willing to do the really dirty work of plumbers' assistants as they learn the trade--and continue to do as well paid plumbers. Young whites, even our southern rural ones, don't want that.
Our foundation contractor is a true right-winger, and he apologized for/explained bringing non-Americans to work on our job, but he also can't get locals to do this work, even though the team lead makes close to $50K a year. The crew who sang as they hand dug our hillside foundation trenches out of hardpan, hard clay, and the kind of rock that keeps hills being hills was from Central America. Lovely guys. Hope they're doing well and return home in good order, with no "help" from ICE.
Here in Georgia, from my observation most of the people who change grandma's diapers and spoon-feed grandpa for wages that help make it POSSIBLE for people do dump relatives in these places are black. But in California most of the ones I saw were Hispanic, and no doubt a significant number of those were undocumented. Anyone you know anxious for one of the openings to come? I'm guessing the only way most of those jobs would be adequately filled by born Americans would be social-engineering a large number of people facing starvation. (The anti-tax, anti-regulation right is hoping to accomplish just that. No food programs, no minimum wage...) But probably wages will go up substantially for more expensive facilities and also in some blue (i.e., prosperous and enlightened) states, which will draw many of the best skilled workers from low-pay areas of the nation--and all that means for relatives of elders.
Sure, some decent jobs will become available. And even better will be, hopefully, upward pressure on wages, a real boon to people working in meat processing plants, etc., and for unfilled jobs until enough people are finally willing to do them. But #1, the prices of a whole lot of things are going to rise, in some cases right out of reach for many.
But #2 is a goodie, though: I predict that this crackdown on illegals--if it continues--will finally result in what we should always have been doing: bringing in labor legally and decently, without abusing them and degrading ourselves through shockingly inhumane exploitation. We can't count on the pubs doing it right--so that American labor benefits from increased wages due to increased demand, but in the end we should be bringing in only genuinely needed labor after our own needs are met. And if it results in that, it'll be really, really good. A cherry on top is that the mean right will lose big time, and it couldn't happen to worse people. Fingers crossed.
Every change brings reaction and more change.
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