"They do the jobs Americans won't do" is a BS Narrative:
Before Reagan gave 11 Million Amnesty Black Men dominated the drywall industry in Southern California. The going wage was as high as $17/Hr. When the ILLEGALS were allowed to stay the wage was brought down to $9/Hr. Black Men said we can't work for that. They eventually moved inland to Landcaster. Then ILLEGALS started buying up Compton. They would start firebombing the home of Blacks to run them out. There are several warehouses in Compton that break down the products in shipping containers coming from the Port of Los Angeles. 98% of the Workers were Latino. I was a Field Supervisor for the Security Company that checked the trucks entering and exiting. They were also hiring warehouse supervisors. I was a former Army Logistics Officer and I couldn't get a warehouse supervisor job because I didn't speak Spanish. So to say 'They are doing Jobs Americans won't do' is Bullshit. Because they won't learn the language and don't want to assimilate and wave flags of 3rd World Countries I don't feel sorry for them. Round Them All Up!!! They are damging and changing the fabric of the country.
MOW your own lawn or higher an AMERICAN!!! Would you rather wine and dine your wife or hire a prostitute.
The Myth of “Jobs Americans Won’t Do”: A Conservative Reckoning
The phrase has become so ubiquitous, so reflexively uttered in polite political discourse, that few stop to question its veracity. “They do the jobs Americans won’t do.” It is presented as an immutable law of economics, a compassionate justification for mass illegal immigration, and a conversation-ender. But like so many narratives that have achieved the status of unassailable truth through sheer repetition, it collapses under the weight of actual evidence and lived experience. A recent, searing social media post lays bare the deception with the specificity of firsthand witness and the moral clarity of a man who has watched his country change before his eyes. The “jobs Americans won’t do” narrative is not a description of reality. It is a justification for wage suppression, union busting, and the systematic displacement of American workers.
The poster’s account of the Southern California drywall industry is not an isolated anecdote; it is a microcosm of a national pattern. Prior to the 1986 amnesty signed by President Ronald Reagan—a decision many conservatives now view with profound regret—Black American men dominated that industry. They earned a wage of approximately $17 per hour, a respectable working-class income that supported families, built home equity, and provided a pathway to the middle class. Following the legalization of millions of illegal immigrants, that wage was slashed to $9 per hour. The math was simple and devastating. American workers, possessing both legal rights and family obligations, could not sustain employment at that rate. They did not abandon the workforce out of laziness or entitlement; they were priced out of it by an artificially expanded labor supply that employers exploited to depress wages.
This is not an argument about the character or work ethic of immigrant labor. It is an indictment of a system that deliberately floods the low-skilled labor market to benefit corporate interests at the expense of the American working class. The Chamber of Commerce and its political allies have long understood that open borders and lax enforcement are not humanitarian policies but economic ones. Mass immigration, legal and illegal, suppresses wages for the native-born, undermines collective bargaining power, and creates a permanent underclass of workers too vulnerable to demand fair treatment. The “jobs Americans won’t do” framing inverts cause and effect. Americans won’t do those jobs because the wages and conditions have been systematically degraded to the point of unlivability. Pay a fair wage, restore workplace safety standards, and enforce labor laws equally, and American workers will show up.
The post’s subsequent account moves from economic displacement to outright criminal intimidation. The firebombing of Black homeowners’ residences in Compton, intended to drive them from their neighborhoods, is not a minor historical footnote. It is a documented pattern of ethnic cleansing facilitated by the same elites who now lecture us about diversity and inclusion. While corporate media have devoted countless hours to examining racial dynamics in housing and policing, this chapter remains conspicuously underreported. Why? Because it complicates the preferred narrative of virtuous immigrant communities and villainous native-born populations. It introduces uncomfortable facts about territorial violence, organized intimidation, and the deliberate targeting of Black Americans not by white supremacists but by those seeking to claim geographic and economic turf. The silence on this history is not accidental. It is protective.
The poster’s personal experience as a former Army logistics officer unable to secure a warehouse supervisor position due to lack of Spanish fluency is perhaps the most damning indictment of all. Here was a man with military leadership experience, proven organizational capability, and unquestioned American citizenship. He was passed over not because of any deficiency in his qualifications but because the workplace had been transformed into a linguistic enclave where English proficiency was no longer sufficient. This is not multicultural enrichment; this is occupational segregation. When an American veteran cannot obtain employment in his own country because he does not speak the language of a foreign nation, we have ceased to be a nation that assimilates immigrants and have become one that is being transformed by them.
The conservative vision of immigration has never been nativist exclusion for its own sake. It has always been grounded in the belief that newcomers should become Americans not merely in the legal sense but in cultural and linguistic identity. They should learn our language, embrace our civic values, salute our flag, and contribute to the common good as citizens, not as permanent guest workers or transnational sojourners. The mass importation of low-wage labor with no expectation of assimilation serves neither the national interest nor the long-term interests of the immigrants themselves, who are often exploited by unscrupulous employers and left vulnerable without the protection of legal status or union representation.
The closing analogy of the post is deliberately provocative, but its logic is sound. “Would you rather wine and dine your wife or hire a prostitute?” The contrast is between an arrangement based on mutual respect, commitment, and shared investment versus one based on transaction, exploitation, and emotional detachment. The American economy should be a marriage, not a brothel. We should invest in our own workers, pay them fairly, and expect reciprocal loyalty and productivity. The alternative a permanent underclass of disposable labor, whether imported from abroad or created at home corrodes the social fabric and betrays the promise of American citizenship.
The solution is not complicated, though its implementation requires political will that has been conspicuously absent for decades. Secure the border. Enforce existing immigration law. Mandate and fund E-Verify for all employers. End the visa programs that facilitate the importation of low-wage labor. Restore workplace enforcement and punish employers who exploit undocumented workers. And for those here illegally, there should be no path to citizenship, no amnesty, and no reward for lawbreaking. The 1986 experiment failed precisely because it offered legalization without enforcement, creating an endless cycle of immigration, amnesty, and more immigration. We cannot repeat that mistake.
The “jobs Americans won’t do” narrative has always been a lie. Americans will do those jobs, for fair wages and under decent conditions. They will do them while speaking English, living in stable neighborhoods, and raising families that contribute to the future of this republic. The question is whether our political class has the courage to prioritize American workers over corporate lobbyists and ideological activists who have never set foot on a drywall site or spent a night in Compton. The poster’s closing demand “Round Them All Up” may strike some as harsh. But after decades of watching his countrymen displaced, his neighborhoods transformed, and his qualifications dismissed, his frustration is not merely understandable. It is prophetic. We have been warned.
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