Sadly, it’s a chicken and egg situation. You can’t get a better job because you have no skills employers will pay more for. And you can’t very easily find a way to get those skills because you would get deported because you are somewhere illegally.
It makes for a complicated problem to solve. And I don’t have an answer other than to say that it’s on the first generation to make it so the following generations climb the ladder upwards.
Sadly, it’s a chicken and egg situation. You can’t get a better job because you have no skills employers will pay more for. And you can’t very easily find a way to get those skills because you would get deported because you are somewhere illegally.
It makes for a complicated problem to solve. And I don’t have an answer other than to say that it’s on the first generation to make it so the following generations climb the ladder upwards.
you somehow managed to make national wealth inequality into a strictly personal issue.
so the solution is: you stop pretending like these people are all evil, let them work in America, but also force employers to pay a proper wage.
it’s also hilarious to pretend like Guatemalans coming to the US to work farms and construction are learning skills to get better pay back home.