Do Anti-Immigrant Groups Really Care About Working Conditions of Illegal Immigrants?
A nicer, yet very questionable, strategy of the anti-immigrant crowd in speaking about illegal immigrants is to make themselves out as advocates for their fair treatment. The anti-immigrant crowd will speak of illegal immigrant laborers as victims of an abusive system of low paying companies compaired to slavery. Sadly, though low paying and high demanding employers have nothing to do with illegal immigration and have actually been an American staple for quite some time. Just doing some research on the town I’m in I found an article from the New York Times about a possible casket makers strike in 1903. (here’s the link.) One demand of the casket makers was that women no longer be allowed to work in the factory. The companies claimed that some of the production procedures where better done by women and children due to their nimble fingers. So basically you have a company advocating for children workers and men demanding that they not have to work with women. If it had been American for
