[lit-ideas] Re: US Immigration policies
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:56:48 -0000
Oh yes true -- I forgot the "Eastern Europe" factor. But I read that most
Eastern Europeans who've come here are well educated and skilled and don't do
the dreadful jobs. Indeed, there are Eastern European doctors working in
Cardiff.
From: Simon Ward
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 7:52 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: US Immigration policies
"...who, now, will do the dirty and poorly paid jobs British citizens won't
do(?)"
The answer, increasingly, is the Eastern Europeans. Many have come over in
the past couple of years, mostly from Poland and the Czech Republic. Under EU
law they are required to be employed for a year, after which they qualify for
state benefits. Unfortunately, they seem to be being pushed into low paid,
low-skilled occupations such as agricultural labouring, often organised into
work gangs and forced to live in cramped accomodation. To add to their woes (in
terms of living standards - their rates of pay are reportedly higher than they
could earn back home), they are attracting the ire of British people who might
otherwise have been employed in those jobs - but instead claim benefits.
In my experience, they are extremely hard working, polite and generous. An
asset and a positive factor in the British Economy.
Simon
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