Outsourcing work to coolie labor overseas isn’t the only threat to America’s jobs and economy.
Another more common economic threat is the use of coolie labor inside America.
No, not the controlled use of immigrant laborers for farm work, although their wages are low.
No, not the employment of documented immigrants getting minimum pay for menial work Americans don’t like to do.
Farm workers and immigrants at least pay their shares for income taxes and Social Security.
The real threat is the use of illegal aliens as day laborers earning untaxed dollars in a thriving economic underground.
You see them lined up en masse at key urban intersections, waiting for the chance to earn $5 an hour or less—no questions asked by employers or the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. (20 JUNE 2004)
