Why Americans Won’t Do Dirty Jobs

With the new immigration law implemented, Alabama farm and fishery owners found themselves almost workerless. Most of their employees were illegal Hispanic immigrants and they went missing the day the law took effect.  The law was intended to free jobs from immigrants for Alabamians to survive the recession. However, Americans are not filling up the large number of job offerings despite the recession. Few would work for a dirty and tiring job for minimum wages and no benefits. Many deem these jobs as ‘immigrant jobs’ and feel they are too good for them. This leads to a shortage of labor when the immigrants were driven out by laws. What was intended as a beneficial law backfired and the industry faces big challenges ahead. The Governor, Bentley,  would have to be responsible for these if he wants to stay where he is. Unless  the industry makes some changes to the way it operates, it will not be able to  attract local workers and would be better-offed without the immigration law. However, this is unlikely to happen in the short term. Alabama industry owners would not have suffer such losses should Bentley heeds the advice of the Governor of the neighboring Georgia state.

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