...we're willing to let this country be. The article cites $8/hr for some agricultural work. Under the new guestworker plan, does the migrant (and farmer) pay social security taxes? Can the migrant COLLECT from the system later? What about unemployment and worker's comp costs on the employer end?
Done properly, that $8/hr that the worker gets, costs the employer a fair bit more.
When the season's done, the migrant may go back home, to a small house that would NOT meet any building or zoning codes in the US, and where the cost of living is lower. The native born worker facing those jobs has to find housing built, zoned, and priced by others witha NIMBY mindset toward his social class. S/he lives here all year round.
The migrant shows up, shuts up, and works hard, because he knows if he doesn't he'll get fired and there's many others willing to take his place. If the nativeborn gets fired (rightfully or wrongfully), he can get a lawyer and sue...because he was the wrong race, or gay, or refused to spray chemicals without proper safety equipment, or...we sue way too much- but we shouldn't give up the perogative altogether.
Rights come with a cost. Are we willing to pay that cost, or are we willing to let those rights go? |
