You couldn’t resist the title to this story could you? Was it the money or just the audacity? Surely you don’t care about the fact that it mentioned illegal immigration; after all that’s becoming so rampant both locally and nationally we’re practically immune to the sight of it these days. Just for the record, the title to this story isn’t a trick, because theoretically you can create this employment position for yourself by doing exactly what I am exposing here, and then set your salary to be whatever you desire. And, chances are, you can get away with it forever, because the IRS and our tax laws are designed to help you!
Completely unaware of what I was about to discover, I had just settled down with a cup of coffee to read “For Latinos, Familiar Faces May Not Be Nice Bosses” on the New York Times web site. The story is about how Latinos employers, after becoming successful in this country, are now mistreating their immigrant maids and nannies. The featured women are utterly dismayed that members of their own ethnic group can treat them so badly, and in the true spirit of America, a training program has been created to educate them and ultimately rescue them from their plight. “We all need each other. They forget we are all the same,” one character is quoted as saying.
With all due respect, I have to credit the New York Times for being the first to advertise this potential new career yesterday, although I’m unsure if they really knew they had the makings for a late-night infomercial, or money making seminar on their hands. The sad truth is somebody slipped up badly, and if you’re a little down on your luck, then you should exploit this, because very few people appear to care about this issue, and that’s alarming.
At first the story seemed like just another immigration article, but it quickly drew me in with more villainous lines such as these that exemplified the fabled Latin machismo:
“‘I’m going to punish you,’ he said, like I was a little girl, Ms. Azpeitia recalled. ‘You’re going to do more for the same price.'”
The carefully crafted plot soon changed to crime after exposing the women’s mistreatment.
It made me think of how anyone is rarely ever punished for committing offenses such as these in America. “In the employment market for both legal and illegal immigrants, many nannies and maids are finding their first jobs among the older generation of Latinos, who are now in a position to hire domestic help.”
Think about it? How many people do you see getting into trouble for having illegal nannies and maids? How many of you middle class folks can afford to have one yourself? When the illegal immigrant working on the farm in Calvert County killed another worker recently, did you see the farm owner getting in trouble for employing him? The answer is no, in fact, the press didn’t even publish the farmer’s name or address. That’s how things operate for the wealthy, while you, the middle class just keep trudging along and paying for it all.
Rich kids don’t go to school with your children, but the kids of illegal immigrants do, and them not being able to speak English is a costly distraction. Have you thought about how this issue affects the “No Child Left Behind” laws versus the quality of your local schools?
About this new career. As my coffee grew cold and lonely from abandonment, I reached the part of the article that exposed this shocking career opportunity that was blatantly available to anyone in America lucky enough to read this story. “Carmen Denis, the coordinator of the Caring Hands job-training program a