{"id":952,"date":"2011-12-20T16:32:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T20:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=952"},"modified":"2015-08-12T16:32:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T20:32:24","slug":"chipotle-ceo-says-business-plan-needs-more-imported-labor-for-burrito-rolling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2011\/12\/20\/chipotle-ceo-says-business-plan-needs-more-imported-labor-for-burrito-rolling\/","title":{"rendered":"Chipotle CEO Says Business Plan Needs More Imported Labor for Burrito Rolling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) audited fast-growing, fast-food chain Chipotle Mexican Grill (ICE still does paper audits, it seems). On inspection, ICE found that Chipotle had knowingly hired over 500 illegal immigrants. Now Chipotle\u2019s co-leader, Monty Moran, is upset about having to train and hire American workers: he is complaining to senators that \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/business\/ci_19582142#ixzz1h6RtOjcQ\" target=\"_blank\">Immigration is really messed up<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since Moran has been deprived of a labor pool willing to work for laughably low wages, he\u2019s struggling to find American workers to take over burrito-rolling duties without increasing salary and benefits to attract a domestic supply. Because immigrants are \u201ccritical to [Chipotle\u2019s] success\u201d according to <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, Moran wants an influx of legal workers (guest-workers, perhaps?), preferably still willing to work for peanuts. Some might call this a \u201ccheap labor business plan.\u201d Trouble is, this \u201ccheap labor\u201d is bankrupting the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Employers like Moran are indicative of a system we\u2019ve allowed Wall Street to build in America, a system that relies on low-paid immigrant labor to keep our lawns trim, our strawberries picked, and our burritos rolled, all for the lowest wage possible. We\u2019re all going broke in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The government can build border fences to the moon, but as long as companies develop business plans that assume lower-cost imported labor, our cheap, delicious burritos \u2013 along with the beleaguered American taxpayer &#8212; will continue to be rolled by a cheap, inexhaustible supply of illegal labor. \u00a0Call it \u201cthe burrito effect.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) audited fast-growing, fast-food chain Chipotle Mexican Grill (ICE still does paper audits, it seems). On inspection, ICE found that Chipotle had knowingly hired over 500 illegal immigrants. Now Chipotle\u2019s co-leader, Monty Moran, is upset about having to train and hire American workers: he is complaining to senators<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2011\/12\/20\/chipotle-ceo-says-business-plan-needs-more-imported-labor-for-burrito-rolling\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[21],"tags":[406,986,20,989],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}