re: Boohoohoo… some contractor lost his entire drywall crew

Punishing people like this that continue to illegally hire illegals is the first step into curbing illegal immigration. They are worse than the illegal aliens themselves. They are the ones putting the incentives out their for those people to come illegally.

My son is an electrician for a large commercial electrical contractor. His company needed journeyman electricians desperately as they were stretched thin on several large jobs. His company hired a crew of “journeyman electricians” from Honduras, all legal with work cards or whatever. He says you could tell these guys had done electrical work before but they were not equivalent to the typical US journeyman.
He said they could run conduit with the best of them, but that’s not really the measure of a good journeyman. A lot of the wiring they did had to be redone. These guys knew very little about the electrical codes.

And he said out of 14 guys only 2 knew English good enough to converse or read and write in English. The company job foreman suspected that some of them knew more English than they let on, so one week when he turned in the job hours to payroll, he shorted several of them 3or 4 hours on their time. When they got their checks, all of a sudden they could speak and understand English enough to complain and bitch to the foreman about their shorted hours.