We had a really interesting discussion today in class, Introduction to Business. We talked about the whole concept of immigration and job opportunities. A letter was written by someone from CNNMoney.com. Letters containing opinions, proposals and suggestions should be written or typed more often. Who knows what someone could have to offer? A solution to many problems. Read the letter below. Honestly this is a controversial between two different sides, one with feelings and the other one with money. "Oh but we are all humans, we should let them stay in America." "No they should be rejected immediately because we refuse to pay taxes for those who have no purpose here (undocumented individuals)."
Mr. Fox,
Your recent article on the immigration debate indicated that we may need to "leave things be" and ended with the question "have you got a better idea?" I do, in fact, have a better idea, and it is an approach that seems to be woefully absent from discussion.
The answer is to bring in legal guest workers from the poorest countries in the world and pay them lower wages than the current illegal immigrants will accept.
A quick example:
Haiti has a labor pool of 3.6 million, 2/3 of whom have no steady employment. The average wage for a textile factory supervisor is $2.60 a day. The U.S. government can screen for healthy workers, import them for industries that claim to be dependent on illegal immigrant labor (agriculture) and collect payment from their employers.
The employer will pay $5.15 an hour for each guest worker. For every hour worked, the guest worker will be able to send $1 home to their families ($8 per day is three times what a lucky supervisor currently makes). The other $4.15 per hour can be used to feed (using our agricultural surplus) and house (barrack/dormitory style) the guest workers by the American government, plus have enough left over to help our own country's poor.
This plan will decrease the cost of American products, create a new class of consumers that America can sell to, force out current illegal workers, provide an outlet for our agriculture surplus, just to name a few benefits.
People may say we're exploiting the poor, but the fact remains that millions of people around the world are starving to death. (If Mexico is so destitute, then how do they boast the world's third richest man, Carlos Slim Helu?) If we "leave things be" we are sentencing millions of people to death. I didn't explain the details of the idea for the sake of brevity, however, I wonder why is no one in the media discussing this idea?
Regards,
-- K. B.
I think it's a great idea. Who else would have suggested this? Even though you say, "Oh, I've thought of this before!." Well it doesn't count because you didn't make it to the public's eyes. This should be taken into consideration and into action. Don't talk the talk. Walk the walk.
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