Interesting that no one seems to think of this as a a labor “market” – an exchange of labor for salary. Meat packers offer salaries and benefits that are not high enough to attract citizen labor but have found they can generate greater profits by expanding the labor pool to those (illegals) who are willing to accept lower salaries.
If the meatpacking industry offered competitive salaries then citizens would take those jobs. Illegal immigrants would want them to, but then its a straight-forward hiring process.
When prices for goods are goods are too high, there is pressure for prices to come down and no one argues that consumers who won’t pay high prices are to blame. But when wages are too low, many here jump in to blame citizens for refusing to accept low wages.
Why are people so quick to abandon the free market…We know companies prefer cheap illegal labor but why are folks suggesting the substitute is cheap citizen labor?
The new hire pays for the background check as part of the hiring process. They either bring a Money Order (there is a Post Office one block over) or the cost is payroll deducted from their first paycheck.
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In the meantime, McGee said the district had made after school arrangements for the children affected. As for the coming days, he said the main focus is "supporting families.
“We’ll worry about the school part of it after we get all this sorted out,” he said. "You can’t expect a child to stay focused on the schoolwork when he’s trying to focus on where Mom and Dad are.
"We all know there is a bigger picture in all this. We’re not here to navigate those waters, we’re here to try to help families get together as best they can."
The superintendent sounds like he has his doo-doo together and has helped curtail this potential crisis.
Are they here legally? Is the employer breaking our laws? Were there illegals among them that have committed other crimes? Did they use false documentation to gain employment?
