I meant to post on this earlier, but I got busy. There is one thing that I have noticed here that absolutely stunned me is how many illegal immigrants are here. I kid you not when I tell you that there are more Mexicans in Hilton Head than whites, and black people are almost non-existent. This area is a perfect example on why we will never fix immigration - because those in power don't want to fix it.
Hilton Head Island is a beautiful place. Beautiful and expensive, at least as far as real estate goes. Every square foot of the island is landscaped and preened to perfection. To keep the grass a perfect two inches, and the shrubs just so, it takes a lot of labor. The same goes for all the restaurants, supermarkets and other unskilled and low-wage jobs. On the one hand, if it weren't for all the illegals, I wouldn't get lunch every day.
On the other hand, no one seems to be making a big push to fix it either. Why? Because the well off profit tremendously from the cheap labor. And those rich people have buddies in Columbia and Washington that they gave big donations. You could a fence around the island, and things wouldn't change. Don't expect things to change here anytime soon, so here is a piece of advice. If you want to be understood here, learn Spanish.
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2 comments:
sitting on my balcony looking at the gulf i know what you mean i also thought that was a wine
Mike, the precedent for cheap labor is ancient. Check a line from an old Tom Lehrer song "even Pharoah used Hebrew braceros".
Illegals will work for less AND like most graft and corruption, someone, like a contractor in the middle, pockets the difference in overhead. I agree with Gordon Liddy's thoughts on enforcement, forget lkocing up the illegals, don't fine the companies that hire them, just jail the CEOs, CFOs and go on down the line locking up the ownership. Seize the property and equipment involved, as a Game Warden may do and let's have a big Hilton HEad real estate auction...
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