Migrant workers leave U.S.
Published: 08 June, 2009, 14:06
Edited: 12 November, 2009, 10:01
As the unemployment rate rises among migrant workers in the U.S, they face a tough choice of whether to stay or return home. Statistics show immigration has dropped significantly in the first months of this year.
Over the years {at least 50 years} Americans have watched the large numbers of foreigners coming to America to seek work. Initially, they were mostly from Mexico. They worked so hard and were so productive that employers became addicted to the wealth produced by this cheap labor. The Mexicans would work twice as hard as most typical American laborers and often got paid a little more than the American worker. The more Mexicans who came to America, the less likely an employer could get the same kind of work out of a legal resident. America love the hard work foreigners perform, but are not very enthusiastic about bringing them into the country legally or as legal immigrant. Don't accept the labor if they cannot be legal immigrants.
I believe its a sad but challenging time for everyone worldwide. there are many opportunities in the united states for immigrants, or should i say "was". I believe the backlash against hiring immigrants has something to do with different ethnic groups being unemployed by the recesssion and unfortunately the hard working immigrants get shunned or targeted because their not " american" by birth. Then, recently there were gossip about the origin of the swine flu and its too been blamed on migrants, its all unfair to immigrants and their families tryin to capture the american dream like the rest of us, but sometime the grass seems greener on the other side but never is it really.