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By Martin C. Boire
www.TruthForUs.com
May 2, 2007

If we were to turn A Day Without Illegals into A Country Without Illegals, the American National Family would have quality of life again.

As part of Tuesday’s immigration strike, none of the Mexican roofers, plasterers, tile setters, or landscapers, worked construction that day in a large community being built by a major builder in Port Orange, Florida.

What it showed me was how many of illegals are among us.

What it also showed me was how many American jobs they have displaced and the money sucked out of our National Family and sent elsewhere. It is not true that illegal aliens fill only unwanted jobs and don’t take jobs away from Americans.

The subcontractor jobs mentioned above used to be held by folks who live here in my town. 

The illegals got their jobs by underbidding the local legals.  Those local legals of course are our neighbors, people who paid their workers compensation and unemployment taxes and employed other local men and woman who have families, and pay property taxes to pay for the government services we all like to have.

The these local families are covered by workers compensation insurance in case they are injured, afford a fairly recent car, money for the kid’s sports, school trips, a Summer vacation. These are the simple things that provide the quality of life which we tout as our standard of living. The things it takes a job to pay for.

But bidding against illegal aliens is not competition because they do not have to carry the same costs. It is not the same as bidding against another companies which bear the same legal requirements and enforceability.  Which is why some with stamina has started suing companies using and hiring illegals under state-level Unfair and Deceptive Trade acts or Practices laws.

It’s like bidding a contract to supply car parts, and knowing that while your competitor is going to have to buy them, you have a source for stolen parts.

The local workers were underbid by contractors and subcontractors that employ untraceable illegals. And because they employ illegals, they can pay substandard wages, and avoid carrying workers compensation insurance because for all the obvious reasons their workers won’t complain if they are hurt on the job, and no one can trace them through social security numbers, or normal names and addresses. That is, they are unaccountable.

The scam works all across America as follows:   Workers compensation law allows the one or two owners of a company to exclude themselves from having to pay for workers compensation insurance since they are the owners not hired-on workers.  These unAmerican contractors and subcontractors have one or two traceable people who qualify for the work, and bid it on the basis of not needing any employees for workers compensation and insurance purposes.

They then staff the job site with six unaccountable illegals to do the work, because that is how many the job actually takes if they were to bid it properly.  The local worker who is traceable, findable, jailable, would have to actually employ those six people and declare and pay all of these costs.   He or she cannot afford to bid the job at the price it really takes to pay the six workers it really takes to do the job.  The illegal can bid it at the price of two workers, knowing he has a hidden resource to do the job that the legal company does not.

This has forced the local subcontractors to lower their wages and fudge on their worker compensation, in order to compete with untraceable unfindable people and get any work. And when the workers compensation and insurance people periodically want to make a show of enforcement, the local legal is the only one they can pinpoint to punish. They don’t even know where the aliens stay, and can’t prove anything.  It’s just too hard and there is not enough manpower in the department that oversees workers compensation.

And so in the end the only way to compete is for small local legal American contractors and subcontractor and their workers to lower their standard of living to that of the illegals. Less pay, older cars, smaller houses, less workers compensation protection, less health coverage, no vacation. 

The legal local workers reach a point where they have cut all corners they can legally cut, cannot afford to stay in business legally, and are unwilling to do so illegally.

And many local companies and subcontractors who could not lower standards and protections to a low enough level to win the contracts have gone out of business. 

Many of them now work at Lowes(r) and Home Depot(r) underneath product banners printed in Spanish as well as English.   

And the work of their closed small local companies now goes to the illegals who send the money home.

And now the illegals are marching en masse in plain view in our streets and blackmailing us to let all of their fellow illegals in.

Is this any way to run a country and have the quality of life we and our forebears worked so hard to attain?

We need to get our National Family’s house in order if we want to have a nice home.

Otherwise, revolution and bloodshed may eventually ensue.

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