{"id":22104,"date":"2019-10-29T13:29:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T17:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22104"},"modified":"2019-10-29T13:29:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T17:29:24","slug":"cheap-labor-immigrants-minorities-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/10\/29\/cheap-labor-immigrants-minorities-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment Commission Finds African-Americans Passed Over in Favor of Hispanic Immigrant Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Report\/EEOC-lawsuits-native-immigrant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">new report<\/a> paints a disturbing picture of native-born African-Americans systematically passed over for manual labor jobs in favor of Hispanic immigrants,\u00a0 legal and illegal. Following are a few egregious cases from the prosecution files of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>A staffing company at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/eeoc\/newsroom\/release\/8-23-10.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Memphis, Tenn., warehouse<\/a> favored Hispanic workers over African-Americans. Job seekers lined up outside the warehouse each day, but managers would select Hispanics over blacks, even when black workers were experienced and farther ahead in line. Managers would announce in English there were no more positions. After African-Americans left, Hispanic workers got to work. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>New management at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/eeoc\/newsroom\/release\/10-1-09g.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">hotel in Alexandria, Va.,<\/a> systematically replaced black housekeepers with Hispanic workers. When workers were told they must re-apply for their positions, blacks with years of experience and satisfactory performance were rejected. Hispanic workers were hired in their place. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>EEOC sued the owners of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/eeoc\/newsroom\/release\/9-30-10.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Indianapolis hotel<\/a> where the general manager said she wanted to \u201cget &#8216;Mexicans&#8217; in who would clean better and complain less than the black housekeeping staff.&#8221; <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/eeoc\/newsroom\/release\/12-13-12.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">grower in Georgia<\/a> retained Mexican migrants after initially hiring Americans. Shortly after each harvest began, most of the Americans would be summarily discharged. According to the EEOC, a manager told a group of 80 who were dismissed, &#8220;All you black American people, f*ck you all.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Acknowledging\nprevailing stereotypes of native-born workers lacking reliable work habits or suffering\nfrom substance addictions, report author Jason Richwine said, \u201cWe have to stop\nusing immigration as a crutch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHelping\ndowntrodden Americans become productive citizens is a serious challenge, but\nfurther devaluing their labor by importing more foreign workers is the worst\nway to go about it,\u201d he asserts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, the Trump administration went the other way this year when it announced issuance of an additional <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/05\/08\/expanding-the-h-2b-visa-program-is-a-very-very-bad-idea-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">30,000 low-skill (H-2B) work visas<\/a> \u2013 doubling last year\u2019s total. Meantime, the arrest of 680 illegal workers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2019\/08\/07\/mississippi-immigration-raid-koch-foods-hit-ice-sting\/1945960001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Mississippi food processing plants<\/a> this summer shined a light on the prevalence and exploitation of illegal aliens in the labor force.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter Kirsanow, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, estimates that reliance on unskilled foreign labor translates into 1 million fewer jobs for African-Americans. In 2016, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/03-16-16%20Kirsanow%20Testimony.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">testified<\/a> before Congress about the particularly corrosive effects of illegal aliens in the workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe\ndata do not show that [foreign laborers]do jobs that native-born workers won\u2019t\ndo,\u201d Kirsanow stated. \u201cBut those [immigrant]workers won\u2019t complain. They\u2019ll\naccept lower pay and poorer working conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kirsanow\nrepeatedly shared his concerns with the Congressional Black Caucus, to no avail.\n\u201cAll we heard were crickets. On a political level there doesn\u2019t seem to be a\nwhole lot of energy on this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though\nthe economy is up and unemployment rates are down, he cautions, \u201cEverything is\ncyclical. Those who are harmed by an influx of low-skilled, low-wage labor are\ngoing to be Americans in that same category [of disadvantaged workers].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Envisioning\na workplace where the surge of low-skill foreign labor is stanched, Richwine\nsays, \u201cEmployers would have to appeal more directly to natives. They would have\nto raise wages and look at working conditions. Ultimately, we must integrate\nlow-skill natives not just into the labor force, but into civil society.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report paints a disturbing picture of native-born African-Americans systematically passed over for manual labor jobs in favor of Hispanic immigrants,\u00a0 legal and illegal. Following are a few egregious cases from the prosecution files of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC): A staffing company at a Memphis, Tenn., warehouse favored Hispanic workers over<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/10\/29\/cheap-labor-immigrants-minorities-immigrationreform-com\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":22106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[11],"tags":[1001,6965,1524,719],"yst_prominent_words":[6961,2140,6960,6962,2181,2349,3455,6958,2013,2008,2137,6964,2411,5630,6963,5967,6959,2128,1937,6867],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22105,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22104\/revisions\/22105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22104"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}