Washington Post promotes cheap labor in Virginia, gets busted

On the front page of the August 7 Washington Post, the article "Constructing Lives off the Soccer Field Latino League Team Owners Attract Athletes With Jobs, Housing" by Nick Miroff promoted, among other things, immigrants (whether legal or illegal is not known) being "stabled" (their word) in "cramped, dormitory-style accommodations" and spending "almost all their hours together, either working, practicing or playing in games".

As described here, someone looked into the company that was promoted and couldn't find a business license. And, this comes on the heels of Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell saying this at a public meeting:

"Many Virginia and American business people say that they cannot find a sufficient quantity of American citizens to do some of the dirty, hard jobs."

An American who had had to leave the area responded and pointed out just how wrong he is:

...All of us normal, blue collar folks can't earn a decent wage anymore doing blue collar work around here. It's impossible to do. The construction industry's been taken over by illegal immigrants. You can't make money in it any more. They've undercut the wages. You can go ask anybody who has worked construction and they'll tell you the same thing. They're undercutting everybody. And the way the undercut is, they don't play by the same rules as everybody else. It's like you said, it's an underground economy. And what's the state of Virginia doing to penalize employers who knowingly employ illegal immigrants?

Comments

thank you D.Flinchum and it is a good read, but most people will not understand it until it happens to that person.
the system has only about 3 to 5 years before it comes down on all of us.
also understand within 2 years you will see illegals winning political office inside washington D.C. And most state offices will be hold by third world people that is when the real mass corruption will start and the poor worker's will start fighting each other, just like in mexico and the third world. and may god help you all, buy guns buy land get out of the big cities.

Posted by: Fred Dawes at Aug 28, 2006 10:02 AM

Excellent response on the part of the US construction worker. It's an absolute mystery to me how the WaPo, the political establishment, and even labor leaders can mouth the old canard that all this illegal immigration isn't affecting the wages of construction workers but any rank and file construction worker that has been in the biz for some time can give you line and verse on the subject. Doesn't anybody listen to THEM?

If you read the whole article, you'll also see that you have a lot of illegal contractors as well. One very interesting thing came out of the Herndon Day Laborer Site story. The groups of folks who were checking out who the employers were who were picking up the day laborers discovered that a lot of them were contractors who had not bothered with licenses, fees, taxes, etc. Naturally they weren't worried about a few missing or obviously forged ID's.

Posted by: D Flinchum at Aug 28, 2006 5:06 AM

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