Immigrants

[Perry Winkle]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

I find it rather ironic that you suggest the illegal workers aren't "skilled;"

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Being "in" construction and excavation doesn't say what your cousins' role in the business is. Do they own it? Are they estimators? Are they ordering/delivering supplies? Site supervisors? Machine operators? Grunts shoveling the leftover debris into wheelbarrows? It obviously makes a huge difference.

I never said that illegal workers weren't skilled. I just asked a specific question regarding the pay of, and I quote, "legal skilled workers." I never implied I was contrasting them with "illegal unskilled workers." It wouldn't make sense to make that comparison.

They are heavy equipment operators, one of them has worked his way up to some sort of site management position. Their friends are also in construction: tapers, painters, framers, ad nauseum. I have another cousin married to some high-up engineer for some civil engineering firm. I wasn't talking about that in my previous post.