"here the added passengers would not drive anyways"
How else would these people get across the bridge? (My grandfather took the tan bus from Washington Hts to the Alcoa plant daily for 35 years, so I know that area well, and there are some buses, but a good number of the people doing this would be driving.)
I can't say they're stealing our jobs, because you've already poisoned the well, declaring that would be racist. Besides, the job isn't "mine".
May I say that all of us engineers (in any particular specialty) are competing for the same jobs, and the more qualified engineers there are, the less likely any one of us is to get a job, or if we have one, to be paid as highly as otherwise? Simple supply and demand!
Add to this that the vast majority of guest workers are younger, meaning they will accept lower wages. (I know, I could accept the pay of someone with 25 fewer year's experience, but in reality most employers don't want to underpay, because of the realistic fear that an experienced engineer will be lured away by higher pay. Even if that were not the case, the wage compression is why I advise bright young people to go into law or finance.) In concert with that, a guest worker's visa, and permanent residency sponsorship, is tied to the job, so he is more likely to accept lower wages in exchange for being able to stay in the country and be paid in dollars. Again, I don't own the job nor the right to a higher salary, but surely the presence of younger engineers who can be paid in visas instead of dollars depresses the wages I command.
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"here the added passengers would not drive anyways"
How else would these people get across the bridge? (My grandfather took the tan bus from Washington Hts to the Alcoa plant daily for 35 years, so I know that area well, and there are some buses, but a good number of the people doing this would be driving.)
Job stealing
I can't say they're stealing our jobs, because you've already poisoned the well, declaring that would be racist. Besides, the job isn't "mine".
May I say that all of us engineers (in any particular specialty) are competing for the same jobs, and the more qualified engineers there are, the less likely any one of us is to get a job, or if we have one, to be paid as highly as otherwise? Simple supply and demand!
Add to this that the vast majority of guest workers are younger, meaning they will accept lower wages. (I know, I could accept the pay of someone with 25 fewer year's experience, but in reality most employers don't want to underpay, because of the realistic fear that an experienced engineer will be lured away by higher pay. Even if that were not the case, the wage compression is why I advise bright young people to go into law or finance.) In concert with that, a guest worker's visa, and permanent residency sponsorship, is tied to the job, so he is more likely to accept lower wages in exchange for being able to stay in the country and be paid in dollars. Again, I don't own the job nor the right to a higher salary, but surely the presence of younger engineers who can be paid in visas instead of dollars depresses the wages I command.