[lit-ideas] Re: US Immigration policies

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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