Are Americans doing the jobs illegals refuse to do?
TUCSON - It's an ugly side effect of illegal immigration. Border-crossers have dumped thousands of pounds of trash -- clothing and other litter -- across the southern Arizona desert. This week, prison inmates from Tucson are being sent out to pick it up, and they are earning 50 cents an hour doing it. That might not seem like much to you or I, but it's pretty generous for those behind bars. Fighting through thick brush, they're finding everything from water bottles, to old cell phones, to backpacks. A 12-man crew is going to work, and believe it or not, they're glad to be out there. "It's a taste of freedom," one inmate told us. "I'm enjoying it." The workers are all minimum security inmates who have behaved themselves behind bars. Still, correctional officers stand guard while they work. Tucson Prison Warden Therese Schroeder says she is proud of the work they're doing. "They're following all the rules, and this gives them an opportunity to be out of the prison walls," she says. "The mess, it's a horror for our desert. And to clean it up, it's unbelievable. And how much pride the inmates take in putting this back the way it should be." The collected garbage is put in large plastic trash bags. By mid-day, 100 bags were already full. Each inmate hauls away a trash bag by hand and then hikes more than a mile to deposit the garbage. Inmate work crews will be back out every day for the rest of this week, hitting up some other spots that need to be cleaned up. http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/immigration/inmates-on-work-release-clean-up-desert-4-25-2011
Immigration - 9 Answers
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Go on line and check out the trash these law breakers are leaving in our National Parks! Abandoned camp sites, garbage, etc. Makes me sick.
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illegals are such disgusting slobs. In Mexico, wherever there is an empty lot or field, they use it to throw empty bottles and other garbage in. In the US, they just throw it on the ground like they do in their own country.
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Yes, just like the Chinese are charitably adopting American babies.
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70% of illegals are on welfare. Even if they where working it would be bad. Engineers have the job of making machines that will do retard slave labor.
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Doest surprise me, have you ever drove by a house known too house nothing but illegals, its all trashed out.There is like house trash on the lawn not to mention all those beer cans.Went into middle Mexico last year and all I have to say is they are the trashiest people I have ever seen.And I have traveled the world.They even beat our white trash here in the USA.Just plain nasty.A patient keeps coming into the ER where I work and every time she comes in she has lice.You can tell she lives in filth and has no shame about it.And its a myth that Americans wont do the work that illegals do.Illegals don't work that hard, most live off the welfare the get from anchor babies.
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Im surprised everybody is overlooking the biggest issue here. Mexicans are products of their own corrupt government. They live by what they can and the economy is so low 70% or more is under poverty. The own government is sending their people to hell, the reason why they flee north is to escape it. So I'd recommend a bit of mexican history to everyone here. As for those "poor inmates" picking up trash after being in "their best behavior" behind bars, pfft that's pure nonsense. Those people are there for a reason and I'm glad they are repaying society this way or whatever way possible. Maybe if it was school kids doing it or orphans or something then yes it'd unfair. But its people behind bars that commited much worser crimes than the mexicans crossing the border trying to make a better life for themselves and their families.
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illegals claim they come here to do the work no else will so do their supporters will years ago irish polish chinese did the same type of labor work the smart thing they did was they move on to better things so don't claim your the only group of people that did this type of work
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I believe this is an excellent activity for inmates. It truly is a chance to be free and outside in the "free world" as they tend to call it. I would like to see more of it. As to how your question relates to this, I have no idea what you're talking about. Inmates and what work they are willing to do is far different than what illegal aliens or other Americans may do. Being incarcerated makes such a comparison irrational.
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I think they should round up the illegals and make them clean it up as part of their sentence for entering illegally, which on the first offense is 6 months. But our government fails to enforce. Set up camps nd when their sentence is done, send them over the border or back to what ever country they came from! And there is no job that American won't do!!
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