Many U.S. Businesses Struggle to Find Mexican Workers
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- Immigration from Mexico was a hot-button issue on the presidential campaign trail. But some business owners, like Joe Hargrave, are struggling to hire enough staff because of a shortage of workers from Mexico. Video/Photo: Jake Nicol/The Wall Street Journal
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So where are all the ppl complaining about immigrants taking their jobs.... why dont they get these jobs
I worked in construction. I can't even find a job now because every where I go it's mostly Latinos working. They don't hire Americans at most places. Even at low pay.
Erick Fernandez There is one right there, commenting on this post!
Gary bigie
By Americans you mean........?
Gary bigie they dont hire you maybe because u suk at it... u think if i went and applied for a medical clinic i could be a Dr.
Erick Fernandez that's what I'm saying they just to dam lazy
He failed to mention the pay rate. Thats the problem buddy! no one wants to work for slave wages while you have enough money to open up a fifth restaurant.
Hiram Duran I need a job , looking for dishwasher and busboy jobs my number is 361-562- 5455
But hen I thought these aren't career high paying jobs? Why don't cons make up their minds?
Hiram Duran the bay aria is the highest salary in the country. And you just proved the owners point.
funny, this guy Hiram is the stereotype of immigrant's sons who is ashamed and makes everything to attack his parents country. if life is cheap in usa is because they have the low skilled jobs done by a still cheap labor force. stupid people like hiram doesn't know how economics work, if you pay everybody a lot, simply the price of everything would become expensive, just watch japan, even the homeless people make a lot of money and they cannot afford a decent life.
hooray for you wanting cheap labor , exploiting these people . None of what you posted applies to my previous comment . I said the illegals contracting the work have no licence. The illegals that work for license contractors get paid in cash or use a fraudulent means to get work . You don't live near the border so I wouldn't expect you to know how things work around here . You may travel the streets in your area , and perhaps see no Mexicans, oppose to the SW you might see them more than any other race . To say Mexicans do work that others don't want is a misconception in the SW and Calif, its called demographics
I worked for years as dishwasher, and cooking in the kitchen and Nowdays most of those jobs dont wanna even pay full time unbelivable!! and san franciso its the most expensive city in the usa
Soon to be third world San Francisco el sanctuary city. Just get out while you still can. Or do something about your city ,perhaps ICE can help. Oh wait , they're busy chasing the proverbial goose. Good luck to you el sanctuary city resident.
Good and if you are illegally here, get out!
3 years as a worker
His restaurants are all in the San Francisco Bay Area, where housing is extremely expensive and working full time at a restaurant that pays you minimum wage (and even above minimum) won't cut it for anyone, immigrant or non-immigrant. The Bay area needs to address its housing crisis for the working/blue collar class people or the very wealth off Bay Area residents need to get accustom to paying higher prices for goods.
His workers are probably living 10 to a 1 bedroom apartment. Americans aren't willing to do that, so he can't find workers.
The food is disappearing...global change, what about the rising losses of food and foul water. Another Gov study coming soon.
The business owner seems cool but one thing I get offended as a Mexican is.,some people defend us for the wrong reasons.Oh bring them back so they can work for me like slaves not being
them back because they deserve a better life like me.Who is going to clean the toilets??If that is how your going to defend us then DONT EVEN BOTHER.More like your trying to help yourself.
Two Suns 💪🏽😤 they have a bigger problem now. All my brothers and sisters are educated and college grads. It's a beautiful thing.
NorthwestMexTV we need more Mexican owned businesses. I’m one of them but there needs to be more and we also need unity. I’m in the construction industry and I’m not white enough for the whites and not Mexican enough for the Mexicanos. I catch more hate from Mexicanos you wouldn’t believe. It’s as if they think I was handed a silver spoon and didn’t have to work equally as hard as they do. I’m first generation! Trust me I didn’t come from money.
@skankhunt42 :)
@skankhunt42 you can't hang with a Mexican trust me.
@@rcp916 I'm a first generation business owner too. Just keep on Pushing my brother, forget about what everyone says. Much respect keep the Grind going my gee.
He just wants cheap labor so he can line his wallet
Joshua Delgado you have no idea what you’re talking about. For struggling small businesses they’re worth far more than we can give as they’re hardworking and loyal! Something even the lower class citizens will never be subjected or relate to. This is my personal experience.
And what is wrong with that?...
Sure, maybe those greedy farmers are planning to buy a Rolls Royce tractor or a private John Deere jet plane.
That's how capitalism and greed works. Americans won't do these jobs on a regular basis unless the pay is good with some form of benefits
@Miley L How about instead of a stupid costly wall, why don't u cry for legislation that forces employers to pay "Legals" a living wage and stop critisizing illegals who work better and harder than the lazy Legals
Oh shit! I might have to pay my workers a proper wage!
Bu then when they ask for 15 an hourconcervatives say those jobs aren't up to that pay scale, which one is it?
Ev Rom no one says that.
Really, conservatives say a McDonalds Job is worth paying 15 dollars an hour?
Minimum wages are set by state and local governments. Be honest to your self woman... I'm sure if you owned a restaurant you'd pay your employees double the minimum wage, and wouldn't care about your business being profitable.
anarki777 every two hours white people have to have a smoke break.
First of all they take advantage and pay minimal wages
Immigrants do more work in a smaller amount of time
Most just do the work and dont complain on positions
They tend to accept cash pay w/ no benefits
(Allowing businesses to grow faster at a lower price for labor)
And local government looks the other way...illegal hiring means fines . Federal labor laws are being trashed or as ocasio cortez puts it, garbage. Anarchy is here !
He wants fast cheap labor!
dolphin19721000 I can tell u do not own a business.....you need good people not just bodies....it’s hard to find hard workers.....fact is most folks are lazy
cheap labor? it pays according to the american LAW, he wants someone to do the job, period. And believe me, working in a restaurant is the hardest of the jobs.
Mexican ppl are fast hard workers with high quality
of course , who would want slow expensive labor????
@@ABBAOPAXO You actually think the Mexican is going to report him to the Department of work and Labor? There both shady and should be arrested Period.
Maybe raise the per hour wage?
Well these are the jobs we're fighting for. So call jobs, no body wants.
People want them. They don't pay enough for an American to live on. Owners make more by hiring immigrants and paying no SS, FIFA, et cetera.
chuku531 no. You are deadly wrong. A lot people want these jobs such as Poor citizens and 1 million legal immigrants coming to this country every single year.
chuku531 this restaurant owners just don't want to pay his employees living wages, that's why he only wants to hire illegals.
MeltedPearls Dude...many workers and even farmers have complained that many of their wages are not being accepted by actual Americans. Just ask them. These business owners get angry as to why anyone just does not want to work.
Issaias Torres What's so funny m8
In my generation we all dream about going to the U.S. to work and earn money , but it was never to stay there , I started goin there in the early 90s back then it was soo easy and cheap to get across I know because I did it for soo many years, and soo many times, I worked in the food industry for many years I remember one time I was working in a restaurant some where in California and emigration came in and arrested mi and some other workers, and my boss was soo sad and practically begin the emigration officer to let us go and the emigration officer just laughed and said to him dont worry this guy will be back here in a couple of days, and that is the way it was back in those days, I remember when I saw the officer come in I was soo happy, cause I been working two full-time jobs for about a year, I had save a good chunk of money and I was ready for a good vacation ,I was happy to get deported, the U.S. was a diferente place back in those days , but as it got harder to get across the border that's when we decided to just stay there but not only that we started to bring every body else with us , girlfriend, wifes, kids,brothers, the U.S. it's and amazing country I will always be grateful for all the years and all the the experiences that I lived while a was there ,not to mention the opportunities, back in those days when people ask us how did you get here to the U.S. and we told them how you had to leave your family, your girlfriend, your friend, your life, to go soo far to a diferente land where they spoke diferente ,where the food was diferente ,where you had to risk your life swimming across the rio grand , freezing in the desert, or asfixiating in the trunk of a car just to work and earn some money and make some dreams come true, well , people used to admire that, they didn't see you as invader as a criminal, things change some people in the U.S. are realy stupid, you know I have a friend, he does very well, he has big big machines , soo he needed some new machines for his business, a very expensive one, soo he went to the U.S. to buy it , I think some where in the south soo after he did his business he went to a store to buy some things for his kids and he had the misfortune of running into some mega hat wearing stupid fools that for not reason started calling him all kinds on names, you can imagine what kind of names, I decided some years back that the U.S. was not for me, that the American dream was just to boring for me , soo I left everything behind and came back to Mexico with cero money ,cero luggage , I started from cero, now days I have a very successful business and I'm making it I love Mexico and there is nothing that will make me want to go back to the U.S. in fact sometimes I have dreams that I'm back there and I weak up in sweat as if it was a nightmare, and is not that the U.S. is a bad place, it's just that for me Mexico is better
Immigrants from South America send big $$$ back across the border in the form of "remittances". The IRS should put a tax or money being sent outside the U.S. unless the sender can prove that they have paid taxes already.
Awwwwww...I’m crying because I can’t find someone who will work under the table and under min wage. I have no one I can exploit
Soooooo this guy is hiring illegal immigrants???? Isn't that illegal?? I'm confused
This is just about money bithes
Imabeast191 no his hiring tfw temporary foreign workers they work on contracts it's not illegal
Yes, but its commiefornia.
He should hire american gringos or high school students instead. Lets see if they can keep up with the pace for such little pay.
DJ Trendsetta I meant physical work. It explains why Americans are grotesquely huge compared to their European counterparts.
pay more and maybe they will hire more
Exactly. This is a problem created by greedy owners who are accountable to no one for the safety and rights of immigrant labor.
@randy miller It's easy to say "pay more" when you don't take into account the low profit margins that plague the restaurant business in general. You don't always have the luxury of having additional capital to increase worker salary. Unless you have seen this company's income statement and have looked at their retained earnings, you should think before posting.
if your business model has to be subsidised by illegal immigrants, its a failure and should be allowed to die!
randy miller I see you lack the slightest bit of business acumen as you've missed the core problem at hand, entirely. The native population sees itself (for the most part) as being too good for those jobs to begin with. Immigrants coming in from poverty see those jobs as an opportunity. However, as immigration slows, coupled with the aforementioned views held by the native population, it creates a difficult to fill vacuum in the hospitality industry.
Hell, I can make tacos. I'll take the job.
Why don't you start you own business and then you will see what is that somebody that is making a hamburger wanted to make $25 an hour you don't understand how hard it is to start a business all you want to do is get more money from somebody else
Nowdays business owner wants cheap and fast labor.
Same thing happen to me in Toronto Canada. I am a Canadian citizen and just got fired because company manger came from china so he fired me to give him a job. 😤
He's looking specifically for mexican workers? Why? Cuz he only wants to pay the bare minimum wage or lower?
As American-Hungarian, I like most Mexicans cause they are really honest, warm-hearted hard-working people in the US!
Glad to hear it
Obvious questions not addressed in this video: (1) What is the pay rate of the average employee of the business covered in this video (2) are they paying any kind of benefits to their employees and (3) what is the average work hours for the employees? Is it that they can't find employees, or they can find employees that will work for the wages they offer? All these facts are left out of this video. Come on WSJ gives us ALL the facts here, not just ones that appear to support a pro-illegal immigrant stance.
I'm mexican. Are these people getting paid a minimum wage with benefits like healthcare? Even if they had those, is that enough to afford rent in SanFran? That's reason enough for a small family.
Regardless of the video, migration from Central America has increased.
R.A. Dalton best comment I've seen on TH-cam today. I'm being serious, half the comments on here are terrible.
Dalton I love your comment.
Hi, Dalton my husband and I live in Chihuahua Mexico. When we visited Los Angeles we noticed all of the latinos doing the labor jobs. I suppose they pay them very little and make them run around. However, I realized the Americans hire them because it's a cheap labor force. If they replaced them with American workers to pick the fields, do housekeeping, clean cars etc the American workers would demand good pay and benefits. These owners cannot afford that and make a profit. I never understood why Americans get mad at latinos working. They should demand to speak to the owner and get mad at the owner for hiring them. The owner knows the laws so shame on him! The owner should consider hiring high school students. I am not sure how hard high school American students work and if they can keep up with the pace of being cooks and field workers though.
@@deannaalexis7868 VIVA Chihuahua!
Cheapskate restaurant owner! That’s why!
Great report.
Congratulations on the success of your business ! Good luck
if the government stops giving social help there would be enough people to fill those positions
Luis Meza maybe you should live welfer and apply for a real job
Sum mors you got a good point ..
When Trump shuts off section 8 and food stamps, the Spanish and Blacks will have to go back to work to make a living!
labor is based on supply and demand. guess you need to pay more
In Ontario Canada the minimum wage is 14 $ an hour
It's a NO brainer. Take the people from other countries that are fleeing. Asylum seekers and put them to work instead of giving them free money and benefits and welfare and food stamps. THEY come here to WORK.
Cry me some tears becuase you don't raise your wages to attract American works. Opens 5 resturants and now starts to cry. W/e man. I appreciate the work but just shut up.
Here another stupid comment. Go operate a business first. Raise ur workers wages as you say and see how it goes. Even u make a loss i want u to keep continue bcs as u say 'dont raise your wages to attract American works'. I want to see that. Before that, don bother to comment.
My husband and I are from Chihuahua Mexico. We are the Mexicans that had enough to go to a universidad. When we visited Los Angeles and stayed in a hotel we were shocked to see how many latinos were employed in housekeeping. Every restaurant we went to had latino cooks. It is evident Mexicans do the the labor jobs for such little wages. I doubt the Americanos would do those jobs, that fast and efficient, for such little pay. Lets just say they hire gringos to do housekeeping, work the fields, clean cars, etc.. what would happen? These companies would have to pay them a lot more and the prices would go up. I guarantee there would be a lot more lawsuits as well. Unfortunately you need them do the dirty work for such little pay. On another note, if the gringos don't want them here then why do they employ them? They should employ high school students to work the fields. Don't get mad at the Mexican working, get mad at the gringo owner who employed him. I have yet to see a viral video of a gringo yelling at another gringo to only employ gringos to do housekeeping, clean cars, work the fields, warehouse workers, nannies, etc..
I worked in a Chinese restaurant and the owner used to go scouting for illegal workers in the impoverished sectors of the city.
you pay cheap homie
eddiemoney61
Nope
This guy is a cheapskate..
The problem is that first there are a lot of american that do not want people here that are citizen mexican,s want to come here (but they don,t want to be american they want the money ) there goverment Mexico makes billions of dollars of america each year why cant they take care of there people ?????
It’s greed and power and control that’s why they love capitalism and that’s the thing it’s a scam.
So not only are we stealing your job, we are keeping you from wanting to work! Perhaps the problem is a little too obvious that figure out.
At $8.50 per hour?
That's your problem
it's funny how people bark and say pay more and I take the job!! but when it comes to actually get dirty and work hard, they forget they wanted the job or they just say hire Americans but they want other Americans to take the job not them. The profit margin on the restaurant business is between 5 and 7 % (10% is rare ) after you pay for all the bills specially rent, which in Seattle is around $5,000 and $15,000 a month (not downtown) depending on the neighborhood and the size or the building, so paying more is not an easy option.
marcos jimenez right on!!
Pay the right amount of money and u'll be able to hire a lot of people!
Nah, he doesn’t want cheap labor. He wants workers who don’t need a cigarette break every 20 minutes, workers who can pass a drug test, workers with a strong work ethic.
Good on you, Tacolicious *thumbs up*
For the people that complain about my comment....The owner said....I HAVE OPENINGS. ....so go ahead and get a job now...BLA Bla Bla. I WANT FACTS...
the title should be business are struggling to find workers to exploit.cheap labor
Slave Labor wanted.
@@jorgedacosta8957 amen
Fun fact that makes this video null and void: Tacoliscious was sued by workers for having wages withheld improperly
My car wash is in the same position I'm investing in full automation because it's cheaper then raising the minimum wage and my insurance is actually going to be lower by doing so
Is there someone interested on hiring me, and willing to sponsor me with a work visa somewhere in USA?
skankhunt42 I am in Mexico don't worry don't need your comments
LAN Evo thanks but I need a sponsor lot a people from where I am from get the, H 2 visa sort of, they are hired for certain periods of time, now with Trump administration a buddy said that's easier than before, of course they check out the background and they get the green or red light on goes and who doesn't
Jesus Juarez at least you have common sense,dont break the law coming here do it legally, people will respect you more and can't take advantage of you.
Jesus Juarez keep looking into it. H 2 is the way to go.
Trump Tower is hiring
Poor me my cheap illegal labor is going away. lol
Viva Los latinos
Love the Comments good view nice, points of view!
If your opening more restaurants you must be making enough to pay an American. There is a difference between greed and common fair pay.
Gary bigie not even trump hires americans didnt you hear about the visas for his hotels ??
Gary bigie well it's a free country isn't it? So as a business owner he can pay what he wants to, isn't that the American way? Maybe you ought to open your own business and pay your American employees what they want, see if you really want to do that.
Tess Tikles I did. When I had my own business, I gave part of profits to raise employee pay.
Gary bigie well you said it yourself "YOU HAD A BUSINESS " In the past tense. Meaning it didn't work out for you. I'm all for fair wages and all but most Americans want or demand too much and give back very little. Americans call in sick a lot , Go out on Workers comp, Abuse Kin Care and FMLA , they want their medical, vision,and dental paid for by their employers and want to get paid $25-30 for low entry-level jobs
Tess Tikles I see you think one way only. My business did well. I retired.
I live in sonora and only thing i go to usa is buy shoes caps and computer things or electronics and there is a lot people like me in the north not everyone wants to live in the usa and yes we go in legaly.
Trollmen Caster i appreciate that. your people are being taken advantage of. I hate that. and I hate that they keep wages down for everybody else.
I have ZERO problem with someone legally crossing the border to buy stuff (that's legal to buy), take it back across and make a profit.
LEGAL trips for business or tourism help both countries.
Legal immigrants are welcome.
Illegal immigration is a crime. When you start out by crossing in a criminal manner you deserve any penalty the government desires to impose.
Simple. Obey the law.
I respect people who obey the law.
I encourage prosecution to the fullest extent possible for people who blatantly disregard the law.
F Huber Like businesses that hire illegals (illegally)?
@@fhuber7507 I do that for a living.. since 2013 and yes, you can make out a lot of money if you know how to invest and sale here in Mexico, you just need a good capital
These people work hard for their money.
God bless all of America, not just North America.
I have also worked in fasted food, dishwasher. I have work up to three jobs at one period in my life that was two dish washing jobs and housekeeping. I have done caregiving and all kinds of under paid jobs and now I suffer daily with a major disability but I am still working not living of the Social Security servers even though I have been working since I was 15 and having taxes taken out. '
Man I can definitely relate! I own the same type of business and Mexicans are by far the best thing for me and the economy! They’re all hard working, loyal and most of all they’re very family oriented humbled people. Americans will never do the jobs these real contributors of America will ever do, and this is a fact I’ve learned over 30 years in the business. Now I’ve had to cut down on services that can be automated like refills and preprepped foods. Taking quality away to more convenient methods.
And… your food just doesn’t taste as good anymore.
"Mexican workers"? More like illegal workers. Reduce the taxes and regulatory expenses associated with hiring Americans, and you'd see a reduction in the unemployment rate, especially amongst millennials, without drastically increasing the cost of services. It would also reduce the cost to taxpayers who have to pay to support all the unemployed and underemployed.
He came to America 14 yrs ago and he still can't speak English
Exactly. Boot this mutt out.
If you cant afford to stay open because you cant exploit workers with cheap under the table pay, then close your business down.
You got that right. Restaurants are luxury services and anyone who wants to eat out should be willing to pony up the $$$ to pay the workers.
He will eventually have to give in and pay higher wages to his employees. Doing his part in helping the middle class and making America great agian!
Nope youre wrong
Open a business and pay all your staff 20 dollars an hour
Tell me how it goes 😂😂😂😂😂
It's stupid to think that paying higher wages to his employees will make American great again. Most likely, he will end up with little profit and if it's not worth his time, he'll close the business for good.
Easy for you to say, but economics rules the day. I think a major problem here is Americans have slackened a bit and currently have this "entitlement thing", they deserve a living wage because they're citizens,....times have changed when americans of past generations did the same hard, grueling work that mexicans do nowadays.
TheSlowbosambo. How much are you willing to pay for a plate of food. 60 $ maybe !!!!
And you will pay more every time you go out and eat
McDonald's are the cheapest burgers the pay 7.5 an hour if they hired someone who wants to get 25 dlls per hour that means a meal in McDonald's will cost 25 dlls.
here in upstate Ny Mc Donalds are paying $11.75 hr and that's the pay before the wage hike that went into effect Jan 8th.
Judith Rigal here in Texas start pay at McDonald's $11.50-$15 an HR. I was shocked, and prices are still cheap on menu.
He will have to downgrade his 50$$$$ hat.
If he is hiring undocumented immigrants then he should be fined. Not put on this show to cry.
Exactly. Illegal immigration has kept our wages low. If employers need employees they will raise their wages which will draw in people willing to work. Presto, no need for minimum wage laws, yes, some inflation until we find equilibrium, reduced government benefits, and planned immigration to benefit all the US citizens, not just business owners.
When they said Mexicans are the backbone of construction that is not true. My dad is a iron worker and I’ve been to his work and it’s mostly whites and blacks there
i did Ironwork, very few Mexicans, i was a foreman, i fired the mexicans, they refused to learn English and they were given 3hrs a day paid off time to learn it, they never showed up to the class
Probably union too
As a restaurant owner in New York I agree it has gotten really tough to find employees for my restaurants :(
@Miley L lol I'm currently paying 1000 $ after tax in the kitchen and my servers make anywhere from 1000 $ to 1400 a week and it's still hard to get people
Miley L lol ask any server that works in a real Mexican restaurant and see for yourself how much they make that's how I managed to open up my first restaurant I saved up 38k in 6 months and I invested it . I'm not lying or showing off its just hard work 6 to 7 days a week 12 hour days
sad world we live in, why does the place you’re born change the way your treated. we’re all humans no one is born illegal.
Quest : let them have your job.
Welcome to the real world Boy!!
Your probably an illegal also/GET OUT!!!!!!!!!!
Lets allow all 8 billion people on Earth to move into your city. Just imagine the pollution & overcrowding. How wonderful.
Quest no but when you break the law, you're a criminal, when I break the law there are consequences. are you above the law?
Quest actually in Mexico, China and some parts of Asia you can be born illegally.
Most comments here fail to consider the reality that were the restaurant owner to a so called "living wage" he would have to raise the cost of the food. Who would pay $15-20 for a simple taco? If you increase wages you increase the cost of the end product. From there you simply apply the law of supply and demand: if costs go up, demand goes down. The US has a certain standard of living, when costs go up that standard goes down. Even if you give everyone a raise, you only inflate the cost of living. Every economy needs people who are willing to accept a lower wage or that economy needs to export out the jobs that require that lower wage. This is why Trump will never bring back low wage factory work, you wouldn't want him to anyway. Who would want to pay more for an iphone?
1stGruhn in Norway you are paying 12 dollars a gallon.
1stGruhn when you work in Norway they take 40% of your check.
Hey dumbass he's opening more stores he can afford it.
I agree about balance economy part of immigration but dunno about the trump's immigration racist extreme vetting aka immigration U.S. rule of law. Reminds me too much of that white nazi hitler, heck even black commie Mugabe. Both racist rulers tore their country apart to benefit their own using racist nationalist love of country BS rhetoric! Liberalizing county's economy within limits to its natural resources, demography, gdp, etc. is more favorable if backed with strong safety nets. PPP as commonly practiced by others use immigrant's labor force at low cost. Heck, just look at commie ch state run enterprise winning bids globally , besides giving u a loan of course when building that infrastructure, business , and hiring their local chinese workforce (NOT AS LEGAL IMMIGRANT OR UNDOCUMENTED WORKFORCE PAYING TAXES TO U.S. BUT MORE LIKE STATE CH CONTRACTORS FOR LOW COST PRICE MAKING CH GREAT AGAIN)🤪
1stGruhn or maybe not open so many restaurants?
Perfect example, remember Hurricane Katrina, the locals were getting paid like 16 an hour to clean up and they refused, they wanted more, so out of state immigrants were brought in. Mind you these locals were given free vouchers for rent or hotels already for free. (I may be off about the 16 an hour but it was a lot more then minimum.)
i went to nola right after katrina was getting paid 200 a day.
What is the average wage of a farm worker? How are farm workers paid - by hour, by production, by day? What is the average work hours per day? Is there a website an interested person can apply for work or get information of where to meet to get work?
pues ahora se chingan nos querian sacar alv ahora se aguantan
Why only Mexican there's also people from Central America working in this country
To whites they are all the same.
Want to mention he charges 20$ for 4 tacos, so his slave wages paid for his 5 stores?
Cheap labor means cheap products America. Don't ya realize that
I hope his business fails from breaking the law
You have ENVY in your soul, no wonder you are unhappy and ugly.
REALLY.. WE. FEEL BAD BECAUSE HE CAN'T HIRE CHEAP LABOR
It is time for them to hire American citizens and pay a decent wage. Buy a dishwashing machine and change their paradigm for becoming successful. They got away with paying slave wages for too long. It is a new day and it is time to change what they do.
Robotics are HERE!!! What then will Immigrants do for work!
0:59 he came over 14 years ago but still can't take an interview in english?
Many U.S. Businesses Struggle to Find Mexican Workers to avoid taxes and pay cheap labor
Marquee Mark that’s an uninformed comment. Taxes are still paid on immigrant/illegal labor! Haha that’s the fucked up part! They even have tax deductions from their paychecks which in turn at the end of the year they cannot claim any tax refunds because if they ARE illegal they more then likely are using a fake Social Security card and the government absorbs the monies they’ve paid throughout the year/years. I’m a business owner but I don’t employ illegals. I’m Mexican too. First generation born and raised in Northern Ca! My parents migrated here LEGALLY back in the 50’s when the US Government would actually grant you your US Citizenship when joining the military. My father was in the army and my grandfather on my mothers side came over during the Braceros Program.
An important point that, not only WSJ but other media, is the lack of respect these workers receive from their bosses like that restaurant owner. Ofcourse you aren't been informed their inhumane and illegal low wages.
You don't know what you have until you lost it ,great mexican phrase
Racist? Why only want to hire Mexicans? Is it against the law??? We have so many minimum wage American workers and Legal Immigrants.
Kat R OWNER HAS OPENINGS. ..GO GET A JOB...
DONT COMPLAIN....a lot of Us citizens dont like this jobs...Welfare. ....food vouchers. ..
A lot of Americans will not accept minimum wage, high turn over rate because of this. It's lower wage jobs that immigrants are working.
Why not hire AMERICANS??
You'd have to pay taxes and if it's 40 hours a week, they'd get benefits. Illegals, there's none of that. And they're virtual slaves to the boss. Kind of hard to not hire illegals when there's so many benefits to the company. I lived in an apartment where they hired a Mexican guy as a custodian and he managed all the illegal hires. They'd line up in the parking lot every morning and he'd come out and pick out the ones he wanted.
525Lines yeah i know. this is terrible. Businesses hiring illegals should be made a criminal offence.
Jonathan beacuse there lazzy ront work missed alot just lazt
Mexico is America.
Because they are very lazy.
Is this guy admitting that he hires undocumented immigrant? It is NOT legal
If they want hard working Mexicans it's going to cost them!
There are no Americans that would take these jobs. Incresing salary wages will require increasing costs and tacos would sell at 10 dollars a piece. This will lead to multiple business closures. Thats what the government wants though. So be it.
Los Pinches Tacos son $1 en Martes!
Maybe you should hire real Americans....
Admin Admin If you're legal or have a current visa you shouldn't worry.. We're a nation of laws, moron..
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Christopher Smith you people want to much money, you want to make a lot of money git a tech JOB.
Real Americans from what country?
Heraldo Medrano You people? 😂😂😂 You can't even spell. Next time respond in English!
You pay people good you'll have a ton of workers. It's when you want to pay them peanuts and expect work to be quickly done so you can make more, when was the last time you gave these guys a bonus? It's called slave labor and they have enough of that in there country, never mind coming here and looking at charges by I.C.E. then being Deported.
Or, it could be that few people can afford to live in San Francisco on restaurant wages, and hence do not live in the area.
because more and more people are realizing that a college degree is worth its weight in gold now a days, and no one wants to work for $9/hour forever. Also this guys business seems like he hasnt given a raise to anyone since he opened.
Then why are there lots of stories of people with advanced college degrees flipping burgers?
There are plenty of degrees out there that have ZERO practical value to any employer.
Need to make $25 a hours for cook because I'm an American and I deserve it.
Chad Lee you will not git the JOB.
Sarcasm people
Chad Lee can you cook food where you will gain a following of people returning to spend 20 dollars a plate you egg roll.
Mexicans are Americans too mexico is part of north america look it up in your maps ... Salvadorians are central Americans too Brazilians are south americans too ... what do you mean you are american?
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I hear there are plenty of Haitians looking for opportunities like these. Hire them.
Well it really slowed down now, sadly.
Are you kidding? Why are you running such insane stories when US citizens are having trouble finding jobs? Are you trying to lose your readership? Maybe you should focus on Mexican readers as your US market share is going to hurt with this kind of terrible reporting.
martyswan1 Do I smell White Supremacy supporter?... huh
martyswan1 "terrible reporting" blah blah blah, I want mommy, are you an adult or a 5 year old? stop crying, you pathetic!
Carl Mag No. it's bad reporting. How's your mom? Still a little sore?
When natives do this it will be end of story. You can't cheery pick stories well maybe at foxy fakey enwsy have a nice day.
I started in the u.s as a dishwasher. Altough I graduated medical school in POL. Worked later in a construction site, everything without any legal papers. I am so happy I came back home and followed my doctor career that I was destined to. In the u.s i didn;t make any good money, didn't save much. In Europe nowadays there s a big problem with lack of workers in any branch. I quess nobody from EU comes to you to work, does'n t pay off. The american dream turned out to be an american nightmare. Personally I lost 4 years of my life there.
This is getting worst by the day I went from 22 to 11 employees I pay $15 To $20 per hour but even paying this much there is not enough people willing to work or if they do they ask for a spa treatment
in South East Asia only 4$/day not per hour.
What's starting rate? I want a send job.
Why not American workers? Oh, is it because of minimum wage?
nope, they don't like to get dirty and work hard that's why
There's an abundance of American people who can take their place
Real ID coming to California soon.
Business people know where the hard labor workers are at!
Even if this guy paid $25 an hour you still couldn’t afford to live in SanFrancisco