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think this says it all: The state with the lowest adult literacy rate was California. Must be immigration.. In fact. I had a really shocking encounter at my
by denimnerd42 3y ago
think this says it all:
The state with the lowest adult literacy rate was California.
Must be immigration..
In fact. I had a really shocking encounter at my house with some young men (maybe as young as 16, hard to tell) who were digging a ditch for my sewer line as subcontractors to my plumber. I was trying to communicate with them in Spanish but I was having a hard time so I pulled out google translate. I realized they couldn't read Spanish. I used the text to speech in the app but that was quite a sobering realization just how little education they had experienced.
- 486sx33 3y agoI’m not from California but why did you not report this immediately? Child labor is very bad and having it occur on your property is even worse!
- c0wb0yc0d3r 3y agoA quick search indicates that 14-18 year olds can obtain a permit to work in the state of California.
- TMWNN 3y ago>I realized they couldn't read Spanish. They're from indigenous tribes from the highlands in Mexico and further south. We are allowing in illegal aliens who aren't even literate in their home countries' dominant language.
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- PKop 3y agoWhy would that be a good thing to do though?
- JojoFatsani 3y agoIt doesn’t threaten you. They aren’t stealing your white collar job, but there are manual jobs that do still need to be done. These young folks deserve a better environment to grow up in and raise their families over time. My grandfather came over from Italy literally with no shoes on.
- PKop 3y agoSo all I hear is selling the idea in terms of how it benefits the people coming here. No, I think our children "deserve" to be passed on a country that is the best it can be in terms of wealth, power, quality of life, cost of living, political stability, low crime, high literacy etc. Turning the country from a 96% literacy rate to 79%, increasing crime, and welfare costs, and increasing tribal politics is a dereliction of duty to them.
- JojoFatsani 3y agoI think there is enough opportunity in this country for my kids, your kids, and immigrant kids. We’ve done this before, the only difference this wave is skin color.
- nunez 3y agoPerhaps those people risk their lives to cross our border _so that_ they can learn how to read. Also, you interact with and work amongst many, many, many more undocumented people than you think you do. Be kind.
- PKop 3y agoIt is quite obviously good for the people doing it. No one would ever debate that. It is incumbent upon supporters to explain why this is good for the native population. Shouldn't that be the priority?
- denimnerd42 3y agoYup.. I'd love to start a general contracting business but I don't want to in an environment I have to compete with people that are hiring illegal immigrants and children. Not because of any moral reasons but I'd like to pay a fair wage and provide benefits. I can't compete with under the table pay and I'm not breaking the law.
- PKop 3y agoThat's certainly one example of a counter-argument. One might even consider the literacy rate falling from 96% to 79% as another.
- denimnerd42 3y agobut hey the GDP is going up!
- nunez 3y agoWe are the wealthiest country in the world. Our founding credo is that everyone belongs here. [0] We should stand behind that. Nobody wants to immigrate into a country illegally. [0] The Founding Fathers had the right idea even if "everyone" didn't mean "actually everyone" at the time the country was founded.