Can Illegal Aliens Used to Undercut American Wages be Called Scabs?

[Bodi]

Well, I wasn't getting any participation from anti illegals on my question on whether the illegal aliens illegally brought across the border by the unscrupulous employers of illegals to undercut the wages of low skilled American workers could rightly be called illegal Mexican scabs. So I prodded anti illegals a little bit to try to get them to participate. They're a little gunshy about being called racist or xenophobic by pro illegal lovers.

Yeah... Hell, James and I used to be two of the few that stood up and took on the Pro-Illegal crowd.
I just got yelled at over and over by Pro-Illegals and there was almost no logical discussion to be had.

 

[ladilala]

I think it's important for people to understand where Mexicans and other "south of the border" illegal's come from.

How I understand it,
In Mexico, minimum wage is essentially $5.00 American dollars a day.*** If you were a Mexican, a Mexican with a family to feed, would you not jump the border and risk it yourself? Even if you got paid 3 dollars under the table you would still make 5 times as much in an hour shift! If I were in there shoes I would do the same thing and you would probably do because on a moral level, it's kind of hard not to feel bad for the people.

BUT, when Mexicans and other illegals come over the border and do that they are devaluing the value of the American dollar, so as American citizen, even though their situation pains me, I'd rather protect American interest over theres. The solution though is not legalize you know 5 million Mexicans. The solution is to gather the people, hold rallies and demand change from the 70 year old UBER corrupt government in place.

And many other countries south of the border have the same problem.

***Althought minimum wage is $5.00 or so depending on the way, I believe most get paid about 3 times that.

 

[Rogue]

I think it's important for people to understand where Mexicans and other "south of the border" illegal's come from.

How I understand it,
In Mexico, minimum wage is essentially $5.00 American dollars a day.*** If you were a Mexican, a Mexican with a family to feed, would you not jump the border and risk it yourself? Even if you got paid 3 dollars under the table you would still make 5 times as much in an hour shift! If I were in there shoes I would do the same thing and you would probably do because on a moral level, it's kind of hard not to feel bad for the people.

BUT, when Mexicans and other illegals come over the border and do that they are devaluing the value of the American dollar, so as American citizen, even though their situation pains me, I'd rather protect American interest over theres. The solution though is not legalize you know 5 million Mexicans. The solution is to gather the people, hold rallies and demand change from the 70 year old UBER corrupt government in place.

And many other countries south of the border have the same problem.

***Althought minimum wage is $5.00 or so depending on the way, I believe most get paid about 3 times that.

Yes, that's probably a good description of the illegal Mexican scabs brought across the border illegally by the unscrupulous employers of illegals to undercut the wages of low skilled American workers. The phrase illegal Mexican scab implicitely implies, all by itself, that there is a direct correlation between illegal Mexican workers and the scumbag unscrupulous employers of illegals that bring the illegals across the border to undercut the wages of low skilled American workers. Illegal Mexican scab tells us a lot more than just illegal Mexican worker. There just can't be a 'scab' without an unscrupulous employer. That's just the way the scab system works. Illegal immigration will never stop until the unscrupulous employers of illegals are FORCED to stop hiring illegal Mexican scabs.