As I sit here reading this excellent piece a crew of men is putting a new roof on my house above me. Most are from Guatemala but several countries are represented. I'm in southwest Florida and my home sustained significant damage from hurricane Milton, as did many homes in my neighborhood and throughout the area. During the course of cle…
As I sit here reading this excellent piece a crew of men is putting a new roof on my house above me. Most are from Guatemala but several countries are represented. I'm in southwest Florida and my home sustained significant damage from hurricane Milton, as did many homes in my neighborhood and throughout the area. During the course of clean up and repair hard-working people from Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Brazil, Haiti and many other countries have had a hand in putting my home back together. They have been working all over the neighborhood; replacing pool cages, repairing and replacing roofs, rebuilding in so many ways. How the hell does anybody in their right mind think we can live decent lives without these people to help us? I won't even start about all the unseen workers in kitchens throughout the country and, of course, in the fields. I've lived in Texas and Florida for the past forty years or so and the immigration scam has always been here and always been wrong but if these jamokes in the regime actually carry their bad dream through to reality, we're all in big trouble.
Thank you, Steve, for this real-life report. Many of our Latino neighbors are hard working & skilled tradesmen. Some claim that their labor is at the expense of other Americans (which usually seems to mean much paler) - yet I know from experience looking to get home projects done in So AZ, not many anglos answer a phone or show up to give a bid - for roofing, landscaping, concrete, painting... Of course, my area was Mexico longer than it's been USA so our mix of cultures is like the scenery - just the way things are here.
As I sit here reading this excellent piece a crew of men is putting a new roof on my house above me. Most are from Guatemala but several countries are represented. I'm in southwest Florida and my home sustained significant damage from hurricane Milton, as did many homes in my neighborhood and throughout the area. During the course of clean up and repair hard-working people from Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Brazil, Haiti and many other countries have had a hand in putting my home back together. They have been working all over the neighborhood; replacing pool cages, repairing and replacing roofs, rebuilding in so many ways. How the hell does anybody in their right mind think we can live decent lives without these people to help us? I won't even start about all the unseen workers in kitchens throughout the country and, of course, in the fields. I've lived in Texas and Florida for the past forty years or so and the immigration scam has always been here and always been wrong but if these jamokes in the regime actually carry their bad dream through to reality, we're all in big trouble.
Thank you, Steve, for this real-life report. Many of our Latino neighbors are hard working & skilled tradesmen. Some claim that their labor is at the expense of other Americans (which usually seems to mean much paler) - yet I know from experience looking to get home projects done in So AZ, not many anglos answer a phone or show up to give a bid - for roofing, landscaping, concrete, painting... Of course, my area was Mexico longer than it's been USA so our mix of cultures is like the scenery - just the way things are here.