Patterico's Pontifications

12/20/2006

Americans Apply for Jobs Americans Won’t Do

Filed under: General,Immigration — Patterico @ 6:07 pm



After a raid on illegal aliens working at Swift, a lot of jobs opened up — and guess what? Americans are lining up to do the jobs that Americans won’t do. And the line is running out the door.

(Link via Angry Clam.)

UPDATE: The linked phrase originally read “lining up around the block to do the jobs that Americans won’t do.” But a commenter noted that the article actually says that the line is running “out the door” and not “around the block.” True enough! Grrrr . . . I hate mistakes. Anyway, I have deleted the phrase “around the block” and added the final sentence — all for accuracy’s sake. And now this update is longer than the original post . . .

8 Responses to “Americans Apply for Jobs Americans Won’t Do”

  1. “lining up around the block?”

    “The line of applicants hoping to fill jobs vacated by undocumented workers taken away by immigration agents at the Swift & Co. meat-processing plant earlier this week was out the door Thursday.”

    “out the door”

    “around the block”

    Hmmm.

    Neville Chamberlain (80a4fa)

  2. Neville:

    You’re quite right, and I have edited the post (with an update to memorialize and explain the change).

    Patterico (de0616)

  3. “Around the block” was fake but accurate.

    DRJ (a5fa81)

  4. I hope there’s a union rep there.

    actus (10527e)

  5. The most important part of this case will be to see if they investigate any connection between Swift management, and the recruiters that headed these workers north from inside MX, and just what those connections are. These people just didn’t “show up” by themselves.

    Another Drew (8018ee)

  6. Yea, ACTUS. The union will solve everything. Where were they when all the illegals were taking the jobs? The point to this is that there are AMERICANS that will work given the opportunity so the argument that the illegals are only doing what the legal residents won’t do goes out the door. The big question is why the company isn’t fighting for survival in court?

    Ropeboy (c77ffa)

  7. Yea, ACTUS. The union will solve everything.

    I doubt it. But they can help with the bargaining power.

    actus (10527e)

  8. So the illegal aleins will do jobs americans wont do what a load of bull kaka if we deported all these illegal aleins there would be jobs for those lazy fat collage students laying around on their worthles backsides

    krazy kagu (a97175)


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