The boss speaks as if his employees are making bank. He said if they work 16 hrs per day, for 7 days a week, their 2-week paycheck could be between $3.5k to $4k. That works out to be a little over $16/hr, and that includes overtime. These people said they had worked 23 hrs straight, and the woman at the end said she had her first day off after 3 months. No wonder no Americans want that job, it's considered slave wages.
Yes, and still ten times more pay per hour than they would get south of the border. The Dems want the Congressional seats, the biz owners want the cheap pay and the migrants want to get out of their shithole, failed state, country.
@@girlfromsouth214 Tell me why I would have to factor in taxes to compare hourly wages. Also, yes, free housing and food are a benefit, but if they had to pay for rent and food, they could not afford to work there. They are seasonal migrants who go back to their home countries at the end of the fishing season.
They are used to working those hours I have worked with many Latins and they are extremely hard workers! If they are making 4k every 2 weeks that comes out to 8k a month multiply that by 5 months is 40k!! Do you have any idea how much these people can do in their home country with 40k?
I’m grateful to all the hard-working immigrants who come here and harvest our food, work in slaughterhouses, work in restaurants, work in the construction business, clean our homes, and contribute to so many other fields. They help keep our economy running.
They wont last long now. Trump just got re elected. He said Mass Deportation for Immigrants, migrants. His team is already preparing. Trump 2024. No Illegals No immigrants taking americans jobs they dont want unless your name is Elon Musk is a good con man for an immigrant. He can stay. Mass Deportation for the rest and Pro Israel. Netanyahu has won also. Trumps New Merica. If you are not white, you have no right. Unless Your name Is Clarence Thomas and the other weird black man that keeps talking but we cant understand what hes saying,. What a strange group of grotesque men, But we get what we vote for.
Ya his business wouldn't be worth what it is because he would have to pay slightly higher wages. I have applied to these places and been turned down. They want to treat people like animals, and are afraid of giving Americans a chance.
What should happ is all fishermen do own work minimal staff. This way no monopoly or oligopoly can eat up all demand. There is room for more individual fishermen.
I work a white collar, 40 hr per week job and I can barely survive on 25 an hr. How these people do it is amazing. 23 hr work days is bordering on slavery though.
Because they do it only half the year. Because of the currency exchange rate and low cost of living those "slave wages" are the equivalent of a senior corporate executive in the philippines. If you dont believe me try living in my country for a few months with your lowly monthly salary. Youll see what i mean 😊
The filipina lady bought farms, house and apartments. She probably sent people to college. I go home after work play video games and watch TV. Save and Retire with me to Philippines. Most speak English.
the money come tax free, since they are not residents, pretty good money. and yeas, Philipinos can work 23 a day. I worked this job for one summer in Alaska with those folks.
Slave work. The minimum wage in Australia is $24.10 per hour and you would not be required to work beyond 8 hours a day 5 days a week OR 12 hours a day 4 days a week. This is considered to be the poverty line in Australia. Anything less than $50,000 per year and you will struggle to pay living expenses.
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Mexicans might be the hardest working people in the world. They never complain, take as many hours as possible and send over half of the money home to Mexico. Mexicans are amazing people, great families.
I agree. I work in construction industry in N. Texas. I see them working so hard digging ditches or doing roofing in 100+ Fahrenheit all day long. Amazing work ethic. I wonder where this work ethic comes from specifically in their history and culture?
Nah, either the price of fish would go up or the owner would have to sell his business. But the country would be fine since Americans don't eat a lot of fish.
Why anyone who is physically capable of the job can go up there start his own fish company do his own work and sell as much as he can. He does not need slave laborers to help.
This is a regulated industry. They are seasonal workers and are here legally. The owners are required to pay them like any other employer would to a U.S. worker. If they don't get paid, then they have the same rights as U.S. citizen workers. This program leaves very little room for exploitation in regard to not paying. The company is legally required to report it.
miss those sweet days, spent whole one summer working this job at a cannery. Philipinos and Mexicans are the most hard working people I have ever met , and so much fun working with them. Always happy and cheerful.
The very first thing I was ever told when I went to Alaska was ‘the odds are good but the goods are odd!’. It’s one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been in my life.
That woman has been doing this job for decades. She has a legacy to leave and touch so many lives. What hard working positive people. When they stop working these jobs, the fish market will go with them.
I was happy to see that they are treated fairly and as a family and also from different countries. Here in the middle east we are treated as shits. I am also a migrant from India
@@vassanab4243 no income tax right but they extract a large amount from expatriates thru house rent. School fees, electricity fees, vehicle testing fees etc etc. If you don't know the fact please try to hear and learn from others. If not YOU ARE IGNORANT 🙏❤
Working literally 24 hours a day is way too much. And jobs handling knives at that. It's only a matter of time before a workplace accident happens. Humans need to eat and sleep.
@@MidnightCoffee12 bro these people live like 6-8 months like kings in their home nation. They are making much money in 3 months as a top executive annual salary in Philippines,India etc. their mindset is make much as possible in 3 months and I go home and chill for 9. Not only money but their status back home is high too.
Hmm I think you dont know what u talking about and you dont know how cold it can be. You feel pain when its very cold. Its not something anyone like it.
In case anyone is curious. The way this works, at least where I live, a "staffing company" employs the migrants. Often the staffing company is literally a guy who speaks the language and finds the workers for "the big company", let's say a poultry precessing plant. The staffing guy only needs to carry a million dollar liability policy and have an LLC to do business with the big company. All responsibility of the worker is on that guy. If something happens in the plant, staffing guy has to take care of it, not big company. The staffing guy simply tells the migrant to not show up if there is a problem. There are zero legal ramifications or protections for the "workers". Example: worker gets hurt? Big company says that's staffing guy's problem, staffing guy says "I don't even know who that is!" They literally pretend to not know the injured person and tell them to get lost. Big company/staffing guy go through hundreds of workers, if not thousands of workers per year. It's all "legal", at least from big companies point of view and staffing guy can do whatever he wants. Fun fact, most manufacturing plants do not hire direct employees. The only direct hire employees are corporate or management.
Mexicans, Filipinos all work fish/ seafood processing. I worked five seasons there. At the end of the season, all left to go back home. None stayed! We had a lot of English, Australian, New Zealanders, Germans, Israelis, and some Mexicans and Filipinos.
Because the new generation have change. The older Filipinos that worked here retired or passed. There children are educated doctors, nurses and engineers. They have to recruit straight from the Philippines but mostly can’t handle the cold weather.
@@eddieBoxer you are wrong. The generation of Filipinos now are educated doctors , engineers and nurses. There parents that worked very hard to pay for their education are mostly retired or had passed. Most Filipinos in America are now second or third generation working at school, hospitals or business. Their parents sacrificed so they don’t have to do the job they did here in Alaska .
For today Europeans: imagine you are a petite 67-year-old woman, look like an Italian movie star, but you work 16-23 hours in the cold for half the year, and you only have 2 days off. Oh, and you've been doing it for 18 years.
so you support communism? they pay income taxes with their wages and now you want to DICTATE THEIR SAVINGS? What if the government tells you where to keep your money... THAT IS EXACTLY YOUR LOGIC... I bet your answer is no because you are a self-righteous hypocrite
Sealed off the borders for illegal entry but do supply visas for seasonal workers like these so that they don’t have to risk their lives crossing the borders. They have no intention to stay in the country but just want to come here to work a few months on jobs no local people want. This is a win win situation on all sides plus collecting income tax for the state and federal government. The tax money will also benefit the local communities as well.
Yes, if they get to work for higher wages than they would get in their country, then it's not slave labor. They can build houses and run businesses in their countries and be well off while not having to worry about the cost of living here.
The title is misleading. Migrants vs. legal immigrants Like the emolpyer says, for as long as it's done LEGALLY. Nobody is against LEGAL immigration. @4:15
@@mariaelda6271 with all due respect mariaelda, the legal path is an unrealistic path to expect the vast majority of these people to follow. Something severely oppressive is driving them to migrate. If they are reasonably comfortable in their home settings they wouldn’t be compelled to migrate. Can we agree about that? The legal path is costly, (most of these people are poor) it is time consuming, (perhaps years in process)and it is confusing to navigate. What are the choices these people face? Your comment, Nobody is against LEGAL immigration. Not true. A substantial percentage of any population in the developed world certainly is against legal immigration. The idea of poisoning the blood and soil by outsiders, sound familiar? That idea has a lot of adherents.
I know for a fact that some employers want ILLEGAL immigrants so they can pay them even lower wages. Some of these farm owners are even hard line Republicans.
Mexico governed the Philippines during the Spanish colonization. During the Galleon trade, many Filipinos settled also in Mexico, hence nowadays Mexican and Filipinos have similar physical features.
@ it was the Viceroyalty of New Spain. It was much better than Mexico today. Under the Spanish Empire and Catholic Church we had a huge empire. I hope we can reunite someday and be a powerful empire again.
Alaska has the highest crime rate in the USA. My wife and I, along with our two small kids, went out late at night to search for the aurora. During our drive, a car followed us for half an hour, which was incredibly scary. I stopped at front of big house with high beam on toward that car, die or live is on car 4 wheels, finally car left. Fairbanks, in particular, dangerous city. When we came back hotel, I realized why even local cars stopped far away for a while when they saw us parking at side of road in the middle night. 😱😱😱
According to Google The share of workers who are immigrants increased slightly from 17% in 2007 to 18% in 2022. By contrast, the share of immigrant workers who are unauthorized declined from a peak of 5.4% in 2007 to 4.8% in 2022
It’s a win win for both parties, especially the workers. They don’t have to pay for food and housing. Working Americans are losing for complaining too much.
How is this not the norm for immigration in the USA. Our neighbors in the south need money to grow their countries back home and we need cheap willing labor. Why can't we have a system where both parties can benefit like this? What does Alaska do different? This seems like a good working compromise.
The story is beautiful and heartwarming. It’s still necessary that people come legally. They are welcome . There has to be a legal pathway. To bypass that is wrong.
It's much more complicated than that! It's the same problem in Europe. Too many , too fast come in. That can only go wrong! + It's resetting entire continents demographically !!
These are the hard working migrants who should be allowed into our country, not the gang members committing crimes while being taken care of on the taxpayers dime.
I'm White American and I certainly worked long hours in my life. Once in AK on a gov contract about 12 hrs/day, 7 days a week and the Congress passed a law saying the company with the contract didn't have to pay us overtime or Sunday/holiday pay. But the pay was good. Later as a software engineer it was common to work 60-80 hrs/week and that was salaried so no overtime. I loved it. Work hard, retired 22 years ago at 45. Because I worked so much in my younger years for high income my SS is now pretty high because of all the COLA's and income adjustments SS does over the years. There's a difference in earning high when young vs 60+ in SS calculation.
Bottom line it’s cheap labor and the worst thing to me is, are taxes being collected & paid in and that they take their money back home so it isn’t spent in the US. THE USA does not benefit and the product isn’t any cheaper. How does that help us. Have you bought fresh seafood lately. Averages $65.00 a pound for most fish and shell fish. I order from a company out of Maine, you have to spent at least $300.00 to avoid the $65.00 shipping charge.
I remember when they paid enough to attract young Americans to work. The years I worked in the fish canneries there were mostly young college kids trying to make enough to cover college expenses. Most of us workers camped out for the summer to save money. If I recall hillary clinton said she did the same thing, working in Alaska to cover college expenses. Now the fisheries and canneries have tapped into a les expensive labor market, kind of like they did in the very early cannery years.
This ain’t new. The canneries and fish processing plants having been hiring migrants for decades now. We love Seasonal workers might as well be the motto of Alaska
I have lived in Alaska sometimes for 6 or more months just for fun the beauty of the Alaska as I knew was less people per square mile. This will put strain on resources, environmental degradation and waste management issues. Killing fish is just inhumane it will amplify the climate carbon issue, loss of biodiversity of fish species and disruption of complete ocean ecosystem. Fishing in Alaska is a blood sport and it must be stopped immediately and people should resort to fresh vegetarian life style. For the immigrants its like from frying pan to open heat, the fishing company boss if hiring illegal immigrants and paying them low wages must deal with us immigration rules like in every other state.
How i wish i could work there at my age of 47. I am physically fit, eotger dont have big billy.. Adventurous in nature like camping and hiking. Fishing and mostly cycling. And ofcourse mentally healthy. With 1 14 year old lovely daughter.
No problem with seasonal migrant workers coming in to do jobs that Americans do not find desirable. These migrants wouldn't do it either if not for the fact that the US currency is worth far more in their own country. I salute them for doing whatever is necessary but I do not blame Americans for not wanting to work this hard on what amounts to minimum wage in this country. But working 23 hours straight should be illegal. This goes for hospital jobs where some nurses and doctors work crazy long shifts. No one can function without sleep. Sleep is how our bodies can regenerate and repair cells and do other things to keep us alive and healthy.
With group of migrant workers, the Alaska fishing industry flourish, company grow faster, those huge catches from Alaskan water can now be ready for market a lot quicker than before.
Workers in China make $500 month. Because of that more and more of the work is exported to China. They process the fish and then it's shipped back to us.
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The boss speaks as if his employees are making bank. He said if they work 16 hrs per day, for 7 days a week, their 2-week paycheck could be between $3.5k to $4k. That works out to be a little over $16/hr, and that includes overtime. These people said they had worked 23 hrs straight, and the woman at the end said she had her first day off after 3 months. No wonder no Americans want that job, it's considered slave wages.
Correct
Yes, and still ten times more pay per hour than they would get south of the border. The Dems want the Congressional seats, the biz owners want the cheap pay and the migrants want to get out of their shithole, failed state, country.
You did not factor in taxes. Nor did you take into consideration that they do not have to pay for food or housing.
@@girlfromsouth214 Tell me why I would have to factor in taxes to compare hourly wages. Also, yes, free housing and food are a benefit, but if they had to pay for rent and food, they could not afford to work there. They are seasonal migrants who go back to their home countries at the end of the fishing season.
They are used to working those hours I have worked with many Latins and they are extremely hard workers! If they are making 4k every 2 weeks that comes out to 8k a month multiply that by 5 months is 40k!! Do you have any idea how much these people can do in their home country with 40k?
Rich fisherman pays as little as possible to his workers he is so grateful for.
So you had access to his income tax return and the company payroll? Drop the victim mentality.
@nidhavellir yes I do so thx . A victim man 11b infantry
@@SteveninTune You have access to his Income tax, hmmmm and, what was your MOS?
@danpress7745 11b 3yrs /67n 4 years. Why . No valor to steal. Highly un decorated and don't give a F
@SteveninTune I was never a soldier, just thought it below honor to include in a comment.
I’m grateful to all the hard-working immigrants who come here and harvest our food, work in slaughterhouses, work in restaurants, work in the construction business, clean our homes, and contribute to so many other fields. They help keep our economy running.
What about the flash mobs shoplifting and smashing and grabbing in NYC?
What about the drug dealers ? Or the murdering or the ones that use up welfare?
What about the drug dealers, murderers, welfare leaches.
@@MbisonBalrog Fix it if is broken. No welfare. I love good workers but the bad ones, one way ticket. They are not the same.
They wont last long now. Trump just got re elected. He said Mass Deportation for Immigrants, migrants. His team is already preparing. Trump 2024. No Illegals No immigrants taking americans jobs they dont want unless your name is Elon Musk is a good con man for an immigrant. He can stay.
Mass Deportation for the rest and Pro Israel. Netanyahu has won also. Trumps New Merica. If you are not white, you have no right. Unless Your name Is Clarence Thomas and the other weird black man that keeps talking but we cant understand what hes saying,. What a strange group of grotesque men, But we get what we vote for.
Ya his business wouldn't be worth what it is because he would have to pay slightly higher wages. I have applied to these places and been turned down. They want to treat people like animals, and are afraid of giving Americans a chance.
What should happ is all fishermen do own work minimal staff. This way no monopoly or oligopoly can eat up all demand. There is room for more individual fishermen.
Filipinoes are hard working and has a good heart
I work a white collar, 40 hr per week job and I can barely survive on 25 an hr. How these people do it is amazing. 23 hr work days is bordering on slavery though.
Thats not true, no human being can work even 16 hrs a day 7 days a week straight 😮
Because they do it only half the year. Because of the currency exchange rate and low cost of living those "slave wages" are the equivalent of a senior corporate executive in the philippines.
If you dont believe me try living in my country for a few months with your lowly monthly salary. Youll see what i mean 😊
The filipina lady bought farms, house and apartments. She probably sent people to college. I go home after work play video games and watch TV. Save and Retire with me to Philippines. Most speak English.
They are sending this country wealth outside our borders. They are not good for economy.
the money come tax free, since they are not residents, pretty good money. and yeas, Philipinos can work 23 a day. I worked this job for one summer in Alaska with those folks.
Slave work. The minimum wage in Australia is $24.10 per hour and you would not be required to work beyond 8 hours a day 5 days a week OR 12 hours a day 4 days a week. This is considered to be the poverty line in Australia. Anything less than $50,000 per year and you will struggle to pay living expenses.
All is relative.
4 - 6 months work at $3500 per month, times 20 pesos per dollar. With 8-6 months off per year…..sounds good for many!
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Alaska isn’t a country it’s a state part of the United States
Mexicans might be the hardest working people in the world. They never complain, take as many hours as possible and send over half of the money home to Mexico. Mexicans are amazing people, great families.
I agree. I work in construction industry in N. Texas. I see them working so hard digging ditches or doing roofing in 100+ Fahrenheit all day long. Amazing work ethic. I wonder where this work ethic comes from specifically in their history and culture?
Without this hard working people, the country will not go forward no more
Nah, either the price of fish would go up or the owner would have to sell his business. But the country would be fine since Americans don't eat a lot of fish.
Lucky for me I don’t eat fish
Why anyone who is physically capable of the job can go up there start his own fish company do his own work and sell as much as he can. He does not need slave laborers to help.
Quit lying. There are many hard-working legal Americans. 🤦 I'm so tired of hearing that crap. It's okay though Trump is back!
@@jeannietimberger2556, what video have you been watching? Didn't you here the man say no American wants the job?
Im worried about exploitation. If the boss decides not to pay them or they get maimed how do they get help? Its insane.
This is a regulated industry. They are seasonal workers and are here legally. The owners are required to pay them like any other employer would to a U.S. worker. If they don't get paid, then they have the same rights as U.S. citizen workers. This program leaves very little room for exploitation in regard to not paying. The company is legally required to report it.
Love how your comment displays either your humor, or lack of understanding how employment works.
Not all exploit the immigrants! But, I know one in NC.
They don't get help, they get patched up and sent back to south America.
who cares?
“The average American worker couldn’t handle this work”
He ain’t wrong …………
27,000 USD for cutting fish for 5 months is more than what most software engineers in India earn in 3 years.
But why should we share the wealth?
Stay in Indian it's a request
Four months and three days (1st of may til 3rd of September)
This is why u Indians all rush to Canada? 🇨🇦
But you living expenses are higher in Alaska than India. The system is made to keep you poor no matter where you are
miss those sweet days, spent whole one summer working this job at a cannery. Philipinos and Mexicans are the most hard working people I have ever met , and so much fun working with them. Always happy and cheerful.
They should work hard to improve their own countries
@@srji489 Last time you visited their country was when?
@@Mauser1965 why would I go to a sh1thole😂
I think it’s that the hardworking people are coming. People can only do so much to change their country
he said the average american couldn't hack it, no the average American can't work 23 hour days and make 16 an hour and still servive
If you can't survive on $488 per day you're doing something wrong.
The very first thing I was ever told when I went to Alaska was ‘the odds are good but the goods are odd!’. It’s one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been in my life.
That woman has been doing this job for decades. She has a legacy to leave and touch so many lives. What hard working positive people.
When they stop working these jobs, the fish market will go with them.
FILIPINO is one of the hard working people ✨
Not so, they only work hard because they have no choice, come to the Philippines and see how lazy they are, working abroad they have to work.
Stealing America wealth by sending our money outside border
All races have hard-working people. 🤦
@@jeannietimberger2556 nope
@@enough1494 you must not know that many people then
Europeans forget how they got here.
No they haven't : by boat ! 😅
They don't want other migrant people to be exploited .
They built America.
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@@debbiemarquis3231 Truth
I was happy to see that they are treated fairly and as a family and also from different countries. Here in the middle east we are treated as shits. I am also a migrant from India
Yes but in the middle East there is no income tax, that’s why despite all the shit foreign workers still keep coming there.
@@vassanab4243 no income tax right but they extract a large amount from expatriates thru house rent. School fees, electricity fees, vehicle testing fees etc etc. If you don't know the fact please try to hear and learn from others. If not YOU ARE IGNORANT 🙏❤
Working literally 24 hours a day is way too much. And jobs handling knives at that. It's only a matter of time before a workplace accident happens. Humans need to eat and sleep.
@@MidnightCoffee12 bro these people live like 6-8 months like kings in their home nation. They are making much money in 3 months as a top executive annual salary in Philippines,India etc. their mindset is make much as possible in 3 months and I go home and chill for 9. Not only money but their status back home is high too.
Man I come from Australia and want to visit Alaska one day. I love cold and fishing.. hopefully one day.
Hmm I think you dont know what u talking about and you dont know how cold it can be. You feel pain when its very cold. Its not something anyone like it.
Abdul doesn't want you in America. Go to mid east, you just create trouble to any country you landed🤣🤣
@@PavelMarkovic88 You made him want to come more🤠
I worked in a restaurant in Texas while going to college. The Mexicans I worked with were the hardest working folks I ever knew.
Those who think it's hard job, just visit Middle Eastern Gulf countries where migrants work 2 or 3 years without taking a single day off.
I respect and admire all hardworking immigrants, work and save.
In case anyone is curious. The way this works, at least where I live, a "staffing company" employs the migrants. Often the staffing company is literally a guy who speaks the language and finds the workers for "the big company", let's say a poultry precessing plant. The staffing guy only needs to carry a million dollar liability policy and have an LLC to do business with the big company. All responsibility of the worker is on that guy. If something happens in the plant, staffing guy has to take care of it, not big company. The staffing guy simply tells the migrant to not show up if there is a problem. There are zero legal ramifications or protections for the "workers". Example: worker gets hurt? Big company says that's staffing guy's problem, staffing guy says "I don't even know who that is!" They literally pretend to not know the injured person and tell them to get lost. Big company/staffing guy go through hundreds of workers, if not thousands of workers per year. It's all "legal", at least from big companies point of view and staffing guy can do whatever he wants. Fun fact, most manufacturing plants do not hire direct employees. The only direct hire employees are corporate or management.
Isn’t Filipino half Asian and half Spanish, and Mexican half Native American and half Spanish?
Yes.
Now they are Filipinos and Mexicans.
the spaniards colonized the phillipines
They arent half Native American they are half Aztec, MesoAmerican tribe in the south central around Central America
Take note they are all legal don't twist this report
8:23 Bro, I just wanna know what happened to that guy's fingers...
Imagine an American millennial working there? 😆
Both owner and staff seem like good people. I wish them all well. 👏
Its simple work. Cutting fish. Not hard work. Lol
Who will hire American there ?
Mexicans, Filipinos all work fish/ seafood processing. I worked five seasons there. At the end of the season, all left to go back home. None stayed!
We had a lot of English, Australian, New Zealanders, Germans, Israelis, and some Mexicans and Filipinos.
Kodus to the businessmen and fishermen as theyre creating jobs for these hardworking immigrants without complains in a freezing alaska
I wonder why half of the Filipino population of his company left.
Because of high wages, Filipinos do not like the hard work so they left, they want easy jobs.
Because the new generation have change. The older Filipinos that worked here retired or passed. There children are educated doctors, nurses and engineers. They have to recruit straight from the Philippines but mostly can’t handle the cold weather.
@@eddieBoxer you are wrong. The generation of Filipinos now are educated doctors , engineers and nurses. There parents that worked very hard to pay for their education are mostly retired or had passed. Most Filipinos in America are now second or third generation working at school, hospitals or business. Their parents sacrificed so they don’t have to do the job they did here in Alaska .
@@eddieBoxer You are referring to yourself and to your people.
They rather Go hungry in Philippine instead of working
I get that only working 23 months out a year but 20 hours a day for three months straight that’s crazy
For today Europeans: imagine you are a petite 67-year-old woman, look like an Italian movie star, but you work 16-23 hours in the cold for half the year, and you only have 2 days off. Oh, and you've been doing it for 18 years.
I love my Mexican and Filipino friends. Some of the best people I know
Btw, the US had a bipartisan immigration bill back in the 2000s. People rather complain than compromise.
These are honest people that come here and work like the rest of us. Not the ones that lounge around smoking weed and drinking all day in nyc.
I respect the work ethic.
My nephew and bride left 11 years ago! They are so happy, and we love visiting!💕🙌
I’m a white American I’ll pick fruit and work in fields for 30$hr or a decent living wage but for 16$hr you better find migrants 😂
watch alaska turn blue with all of this diversity.
What an inspiration is their determination and work ethic!
BBC attracting cheap migrant labor for Alaska.
America. Bringing the world together in love and possibly hate all at the same time. Amazing!
Sending money to be spent outside of our economy, that's how they leech.
so you support communism? they pay income taxes with their wages and now you want to DICTATE THEIR SAVINGS?
What if the government tells you where to keep your money... THAT IS EXACTLY YOUR LOGIC...
I bet your answer is no because you are a self-righteous hypocrite
Very interesting indeed. Thank you for this programme.
Sealed off the borders for illegal entry but do supply visas for seasonal workers like these so that they don’t have to risk their lives crossing the borders. They have no intention to stay in the country but just want to come here to work a few months on jobs no local people want. This is a win win situation on all sides plus collecting income tax for the state and federal government. The tax money will also benefit the local communities as well.
Yes, if they get to work for higher wages than they would get in their country, then it's not slave labor. They can build houses and run businesses in their countries and be well off while not having to worry about the cost of living here.
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That's slave labour
Awesome, send ALL the migrants from last 4 years to Alaska!
The title is misleading. Migrants vs. legal immigrants
Like the emolpyer says, for as long as it's done LEGALLY. Nobody is against LEGAL immigration. @4:15
There is definitely People against legal migration
@@mariaelda6271 with all due respect mariaelda, the legal path is an unrealistic path to expect the vast majority of these people to follow. Something severely oppressive is driving them to migrate. If they are reasonably comfortable in their home settings they wouldn’t be compelled to migrate. Can we agree about that?
The legal path is costly, (most of these people are poor) it is time consuming, (perhaps years in process)and it is confusing to navigate. What are the choices these people face?
Your comment, Nobody is against LEGAL immigration. Not true. A substantial percentage of any population in the developed world certainly is against legal immigration. The idea of poisoning the blood and soil by outsiders, sound familiar? That idea has a lot of adherents.
Without radical reforms to make legal migration easy and massive that talk about “legal” immigration is just BS from xenophobic bigots
I know for a fact that some employers want ILLEGAL immigrants so they can pay them even lower wages. Some of these farm owners are even hard line Republicans.
@rhetleonard2968 at least 400k criminals have come in. Are you in favor of that?
The Philippines and Mexico were the same country for close to 270 years! We are brothers! Up the Spanish Empire and Catholic Church!! 🇪🇸 🇲🇽 🇵🇭 ✝️ ❤️
Mexico governed the Philippines during the Spanish colonization. During the Galleon trade, many Filipinos settled also in Mexico, hence nowadays Mexican and Filipinos have similar physical features.
@ it was the Viceroyalty of New Spain. It was much better than Mexico today. Under the Spanish Empire and Catholic Church we had a huge empire. I hope we can reunite someday and be a powerful empire again.
@ but youre right, Las Islas Filipinas were governed from Mexico City.
Beware Alaska! THEY EAT THE BEARS! THEY EAT THE MOOSES!
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They should be getting paid way more!! Exploitation for sure. How is this even legal in Alaska???
Anywhere cheap labor is needed to rise company profits. Migrants are needed 😂😂😂
God bless from the Philippines 🙏
Alaska has the highest crime rate in the USA. My wife and I, along with our two small kids, went out late at night to search for the aurora. During our drive, a car followed us for half an hour, which was incredibly scary. I stopped at front of big house with high beam on toward that car, die or live is on car 4 wheels, finally car left. Fairbanks, in particular, dangerous city. When we came back hotel, I realized why even local cars stopped far away for a while when they saw us parking at side of road in the middle night. 😱😱😱
According to Google The share of workers who are immigrants increased slightly from 17% in 2007 to 18% in 2022. By contrast, the share of immigrant workers who are unauthorized declined from a peak of 5.4% in 2007 to 4.8% in 2022
One of my favorites states. I wanna go there. I'm from Ghana
You'd better hurry up; after tuesday (or technically the 20th of January). 😂
Me too. Much love from kenya❤😊
@@22ergie trump is all talk he can't do shit
Go to Russia instead
They don’t want those who enter illegally though
I love alaska
Boss probably voted for trump too 😂
It’s a win win for both parties, especially the workers. They don’t have to pay for food and housing. Working Americans are losing for complaining too much.
You can send your kids to work 16-24hours everyday then
@@jeihka1 I imagine that when you want to eat fish you go and fish it.
Filipino and Mexican are more relatively counsin for more than 300 plus years during spanish occupation
But Filipinos are not considered Spanish, they're are Asians, google it.
Except that Spanish-speaking Mexicans --- even "White" ones --- NEVER boast that they are Spanish or part-Spanish.
How is this not the norm for immigration in the USA. Our neighbors in the south need money to grow their countries back home and we need cheap willing labor. Why can't we have a system where both parties can benefit like this? What does Alaska do different? This seems like a good working compromise.
The story is beautiful and heartwarming. It’s still necessary that people come legally. They are welcome . There has to be a legal pathway. To bypass that is wrong.
The same people keeping America economy going well and Felon Trump is insulting them, and you see America people supporting him. What a disgrace
It's much more complicated than that! It's the same problem in Europe. Too many , too fast come in. That can only go wrong! + It's resetting entire continents demographically !!
These people are legal
You have no right to just walk into someone else’s country and demand the right to live there.
@juanmiguel-557 A land that was stolen from the native American.
Always a T.D.S.-er, ALWAYS !
17 $ per hour? 😮
These are the hard working migrants who should be allowed into our country, not the gang members committing crimes while being taken care of on the taxpayers dime.
I'm White American and I certainly worked long hours in my life. Once in AK on a gov contract about 12 hrs/day, 7 days a week and the Congress passed a law saying the company with the contract didn't have to pay us overtime or Sunday/holiday pay. But the pay was good. Later as a software engineer it was common to work 60-80 hrs/week and that was salaried so no overtime.
I loved it. Work hard, retired 22 years ago at 45. Because I worked so much in my younger years for high income my SS is now pretty high because of all the COLA's and income adjustments SS does over the years. There's a difference in earning high when young vs 60+ in SS calculation.
I am interested in working there in Alaska I am a very hardworking family man , I just want to know if you are hiring at the moment
No, no don’t come here
How to apply?
So happy I was able to visit Alaska thru via cruise its a unique place to visit
Pure propaganda- stop falling for this
Bottom line it’s cheap labor and the worst thing to me is, are taxes being collected & paid in and that they take their money back home so it isn’t spent in the US. THE USA does not benefit and the product isn’t any cheaper. How does that help us. Have you bought fresh seafood lately. Averages $65.00 a pound for most fish and shell fish. I order from a company out of Maine, you have to spent at least $300.00 to avoid the $65.00 shipping charge.
I remember when they paid enough to attract young Americans to work. The years I worked in the fish canneries there were mostly young college kids trying to make enough to cover college expenses. Most of us workers camped out for the summer to save money. If I recall hillary clinton said she did the same thing, working in Alaska to cover college expenses. Now the fisheries and canneries have tapped into a les expensive labor market, kind of like they did in the very early cannery years.
6 months no sunlight 🌅. No wonder why they pay to live and all people are government employees.
If they are legal fine, if they are illegal you need the shit fined out of you, your business shut down and possibly be in jail...
A lot of New Yorkers and Californians are likely to migrate up to Alaska.
This ain’t new. The canneries and fish processing plants having been hiring migrants for decades now. We love Seasonal workers might as well be the motto of Alaska
Build.That.Wall.
Alaska really deserves to be an independent nation.
Are they Legal?
This is abuse
Stop exploiting poor people.
I have lived in Alaska sometimes for 6 or more months just for fun the beauty of the Alaska as I knew was less people per square mile. This will put strain on resources, environmental degradation and waste management issues. Killing fish is just inhumane it will amplify the climate carbon issue, loss of biodiversity of fish species and disruption of complete ocean ecosystem. Fishing in Alaska is a blood sport and it must be stopped immediately and people should resort to fresh vegetarian life style. For the immigrants its like from frying pan to open heat, the fishing company boss if hiring illegal immigrants and paying them low wages must deal with us immigration rules like in every other state.
These are government programs/contracts that bring in seasonal migrant labor and have been in place since the 1960s... FLCRA
(1963) MSPA (1983)
can I work over there
Why isn't this an option for American homeless?
How i wish i could work there at my age of 47. I am physically fit, eotger dont have big billy.. Adventurous in nature like camping and hiking. Fishing and mostly cycling. And ofcourse mentally healthy. With 1 14 year old lovely daughter.
Its too Cold there 😮😮😮😮
You bring the heat thou boo
Hello BBC, I want to apply job in Alaska
after i watch this video..how. Can I contact the employer.
No problem with seasonal migrant workers coming in to do jobs that Americans do not find desirable. These migrants wouldn't do it either if not for the fact that the US currency is worth far more in their own country. I salute them for doing whatever is necessary but I do not blame Americans for not wanting to work this hard on what amounts to minimum wage in this country. But working 23 hours straight should be illegal. This goes for hospital jobs where some nurses and doctors work crazy long shifts. No one can function without sleep. Sleep is how our bodies can regenerate and repair cells and do other things to keep us alive and healthy.
Actually Filipinos can adapt different kind of environment easily so in that case they moved to another state for a better pay
They gain many money and the workers works like a slave
With group of migrant workers, the Alaska fishing industry flourish, company grow faster, those huge catches from Alaskan water can now be ready for market a lot quicker than before.
Workers in China make $500 month. Because of that more and more of the work is exported to China. They process the fish and then it's shipped back to us.
As long i get the US passport i wouldn't mind to work in Alaska
I agree these people are so hard-working how will American sùrvive without these immigrants