Clodfobble wrote:
The fear-mongering about Mexican immigrants isn't about "taking your job" anymore, it's about them supposedly all going on welfare and committing crime....
Actually, i's both. Sanctuary cities and states are crying out for financial aid to support their immigrant populations. It comes at their taxpayer's expense since processing immigrant work permits (EAD) takes about 6 months; however, the work permits don't necessarily mean they'll find jobs; so, the support requirements can extend beyond that.
The sanctuary cities and states are also displacing workers who have jobs to make those jobs available to immigrants. It makes the politicians look less inept if they can report that their immigrants are getting jobs. For example, Illinois recently passed a law stipulating that workers from temporary agencies, across a broad spectrum of industries, can't work for client corporations for more than 90 calendar days without the client either hiring, or, compensating them the same as their employees including wages and the dollar value of their employee benefit package.
Many corporations use long-term temps because they want continuity in performance; but, can't afford to hire more employees either directly due to the expense involved or indirectly if increasing employee numbers means loss of small business status and related savings. So, now those clients have to get new temps in every 90 calendar days which is ridiculous when you consider that now a client has to train temps twice just to replace an employee who's taking 6 months off under FMLA.
This year, long-term temps who have been working with the same client for even 10 years or more are getting booted to provide job openings for the overload of immigrants. There's no grandfather clause. Those long-term temps are barred by law from returning to their current client for 1 year (unless the client meets the aforementioned requirements). If the temporary service agency and their client don't comply, they can each be fined $100 per head, per day and the agency can lose its business license.
The cutthroat politicians can now claim to have employed 4 immigrants, each for 90 days. for every long-term temp they forced out of a job position. Those long-term temps will lose the pay raises their client authorized for longevity. Politicians in their final term of office couldn't care less. People wonder why there's a backlash: they don't know, don't want to know, don't care unless a political maneuver affects them or their business directly. The students, single parents, and working elderly who need the flexible hours temporary agencies provide will end up voting for the other team.
Just sayin' 
