Immigration Extremes, Demography, and the Inability to Change a Light Bulb!
Too many Americans raised today consider it demeaning or even impossible to take on certain occupations
By Andy Caldwell, July 8, 2025 12:08 pm
The left in America has always frustrated any attempt to reform our immigration system by way of their demands for amnesty, read that full citizenship rights, for all illegal aliens. They would want us to believe this has to do with their compassion for humanity, but their motivation has to do with their insatiable cravings for pure political power. They understand that they need more voters, and their literal bread and butter approach to securing the same is handing out a multitude of benefits and various means of protection to illegal aliens, as well as to lazy and lawless Americans, for that matter, to secure their support.
What is not lost on most Americans is that this mix of immigrants who recently invaded our country included some hard-working people who want the American dream for their children, along with terrorists, international gang members and jihadists, convicted murderers, rapists, and child molesters. Hence, the extreme stance of elite progressives is to welcome and embrace the tired and the poor, along with all menaces and burdens to society. This is one of the main reasons why they lost the last Presidential election.
Some conservatives, on the other hand, want all people who came here without our government’s permission to be deported summarily and immediately, end of story. On their part, they fail to respect the fact that some of the immigrants who broke the law did so out of desperation and aspiration. That is, they were living in a hell-hole country, and they wanted the American dream for themselves and their children. While it is inexcusable to break the law, it is also inexcusable that our current immigration system is broken thereby precluding the ability of business owners in construction, hotel and restaurants, and agriculture to get the workers they need to serve us.
That brings us to the failure of our immigration system to consider Occam’s razor which states that the simplest explanation for a phenomenon is likely to be the most accurate one. That is, we are in the throes of an immigration crisis because of two internal phenomena in addition to the motivations of immigrants to want to come here to better their lives or for nefarious purposes.
Pertaining to internal phenomena, we must first mention our birth dearth, for as the saying goes, demography is destiny. The birth dearth in America means that we are losing population and if it weren’t for immigrants coming here and multiplying as they tend to do, our ability to maintain our society and economy is doomed. The math in this statement is a historical fact proven time and time again throughout the course of human history, including in the seminal work of Carle Zimmerman “Family and Civilization,” not to mention “What to Expect When Noone is Expecting” by Jonathan Last, and “How Civilizations Die” by David P. Goldman.
The second inconvenient truth is that too many Americans raised today consider it demeaning or even impossible to take on certain occupations, such as being a farmworker or a domestic. That is, the work is considered beneath their dignity, or it is too strenuous an occupation. This has been the case for decades in America, but it certainly wasn’t the case when I was growing up. Children and teenagers in rural America back then were certainly willing and expected to do field work during the summers for spending money, but no more. My mother and father both also worked in a cannery during the summers as well. In urban areas, kids cut lawns because virtually nobody had a gardener. Kids, rather than the homeless, collected recyclables for cash. It was common for children to have paper routes, while teenagers took on part-time work during the school year and full-time work in the summer.
According to USAFacts.org, teen labor force participation was above 50% throughout most of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. It dipped below that in the early 2000s. Between 2000 and 2010, the rate fell from 52% to 35%. Moreover, the same website indicates that Hispanic or Latino teens tend to have more year-round employment with less seasonal variation compared to other racial groups.
Unfortunately, something much worse has happened among the youth in America today besides the aversion to work. That is, an astounding number of youths are baffled about some very basics in life. How bad is it? According to polling, a shocking 30% of the Gen Zs surveyed could not identify a flathead screwdriver, while 21% couldn’t recognize a wrench. Moreover, in answer to the question how many Gen Zs does it take to change a light bulb, we may never know! The pollsters found that nearly 25% of Gen Zs had no idea how to change a lightbulb in a ceiling lamp, with many claiming that climbing a ladder is “too dangerous” while one in five also worry that the bulb might be “too hot.”
I believe that the two extremes having to do with our immigration problem, namely amnesty for all or deport them all, is untenable for a variety of reasons. Amnesty for all is untenable because it will simply invite more immigrants to arrive hoping for the same outcome, amnesty, in the future. Ronald Reagan proved that in 1986 when he signed The Immigration Reform and Control Act. It is also unfair to those who have waited in line for years on end to come here legally. People that come here illegally should have to forfeit forever the opportunity to become a full-fledged citizen, meaning among other things, they never can vote. That should take the winds out of the democrat party’s sails.
On the other hand, I believe that the people who come here to neither be a menace nor a burden to society because of their willingness to work hard, play by the rules, pay their taxes, and accept no handouts, should have the opportunity to work and live here with permission by way of a thoroughly vetted guest worker program. I believe this because I have been employed for 45 years in an ag and industry-related occupation, including four years in a hiring capacity.
But don’t take my word for it! Do your own poll. Ask your kids and grandkids if they would go and pick strawberries after having been informed they could make over $30 per hour. Or ask somebody working behind the counter of Starbucks or at a Walmart the same question.
In the battle between amnesty for all or deport them all, I don’t want to lose sight of the fact that we are a nation of immigrants, and that worked well for us for centuries. Additionally, there is the inescapable fact, which has affected various empires going back for thousands of years, and that is, demography is destiny no matter which side of this debate you are on.
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Why ask your kids and grandkids if they would go and pick strawberries when there now are robots that will do it more efficiently and cheaper? The need for imported foreign labor for agriculture and other industries is over with AI and robotics becoming increasingly sophisticated and more widely used. Maybe it’s time for the U.S. to close the borders and cut off the legal and illegal immigration spigot?
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Why not just have a guest worker program?Those who truly come here as field workers would earn a good living to bring back home.
Why is this option never discussed? Why does citizenship have to be attached? This is seasonal work.
Because it is probably something only democrats are allowed to suggest and then fail, by design, to implement. Thus, proof it was racist anyway and not a good enough idea.
Ha, ha, got it!
Silly idea, never mind😣
Was the Bracero Program just a figment of my imagination, or is a similar program now something that now makes too much sense to the mid-wits in charge?
Your memory is correct. I just looked it up.
One criticism of that program was that the laborers were exploited and it led to illegal immigration.
I can make that same argument today with our current mess.of illegal workers are they not being exploited and our civic services being overtaxed?
We have labor laws is place to protect legal workers. Employers can be held accountable. It can be well managed and regulated.
In all seriousness it could bring order to the disorder we have now.
For a couple of yeas my parents invited two Bracero participants, from Mexico, to our home after church on Christmas day.
One later became a naturalized citizen, attended college and then began a career. The other returned to Mexico.
Decent, friendly and appreciative people, who easily acquired their second language.
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I don’t buy your arguments. Mechanization and perhaps a guest worker program will take care of agricultural needs. The birthrate will go up once environmental and food poisons are eliminated. Get rid of leftist brainwashing and PP and there won’t be a need for hordes of illegals.
the article argued for a guest worker program, where people who are here illegally are barred from citizenship forever, and where they must be vetted to obtain seasonal work. people in this comment section seem to have missed that fact as they are reacting as though he promoted amnesty. regarding a comeback from a birth dearth, few countries have ever done it. some governments offered cash benefits of $5k to no avail. turns out when you exert social pressure to convince an entire generation that they should have 1 or 0 kids, no amount of cash incentives can get the trend moving in the other direction (I imagine that the poison in the food supply may keep some women from having 1-2 kids, but I doubt it is what is keeping women from having 4 to 5 kids). having kids requires sacrifice, and when they are devalued by your peers, most decide they aren’t “worth the toll”. maybe we can teach the generation after Gen Alpha to embrace childbearing, but that is decades away from making an impact.
A couple of thoughts. The push in the late 60s and 70s to reduce US birth rates due to overblown leftist overpopulation concerns while the same leftists encouraged mass “undocumented” migration from 3rd world countries with birth rates far exceeding birth rates of American citizens and who would and will work for nothing. Then there is the irony of things I have seen like the UFW union picketing fields with illegal harvest labor on the inside of the fence having the same physical appearance and speaking the same language as those holding signs outside the fence. Cesar Chavez used to call the Border Patrol on illegals the big farmers used to break his UFW strikes for better wages and working conditions, Washington power brokers held the Border Patrol back. Both the Democrat and Republican parties turned a blind eye to illegal imigration in those years, the Democrats were importing pliable future voters who were used to their home governments treating them badly and the Republicans wanted a low wage, non voting labor class. So, this became the mess we now have in 2025 – this has been in the works for at least a half century.
This is my best understanding of the bracero program and its failings. The bracero program was created when the boys left the farm for WWII to fill the labor shortage. When the boys returned stateside as men a large portion of them didn’t go back to the farm and the bracero program continued. I believe that a portion of the wages were held back as an incentive to return to mexico, but a lot of that money was embezzled by mexican bank executives and went to offshore, secret bank accounts. I don’t recall why the program was cancelled in 1964, but swindling returning workers might have been a part of it. Currently if someone were to return with cash he would be sure to at least be robbed of it, and there is no doubt in my mind that mexican families who receive remittances from the US are shaken down by one cartel or another.
Great summary, thank you.
My days of employment in the physical trades are over, but I have some observations that are borne of more than 50 years of direct observation. Of the current younger American citizens entering the workforce, there are two types: those who are excellent help and those you can’t remove the cell phones from their noses with a jackhammer and a stick of dynamite. The former tend to be kids escaping the family farm, some of the rest will eventually become good help. My general observation is that the illegals tend to work hard while working for cheap, but can’t be trusted to produce something that isn’t shoddy or doesn’t have to be redone. There is possibly not one mexican citizen man in the whole world who will tell you he doesn’t know how to do something. However, there are some who do become excelent help and even craftsmen. In the 70s, the mexicans made great effort to learn english and get along, in their current majority they tend to run off those not from their native background, often in preferrence to friends and family from their home town in mexico. And, they will unwittingly compete for the lowest wages possible. On the other hand, they can stretch a buck and possibly no one else can live such a good life on such a bargain basement, discount beer budget.
They are ALL here for the Reconquista.