{"id":403848,"date":"2025-11-25T15:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/403848\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T15:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:15:13","slug":"businesses-shouldnt-take-advantage-of-immigrants-with-low-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/403848\/","title":{"rendered":"Businesses shouldn\u2019t take advantage of immigrants with low wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Nov. 25, 2025 7 AM PT  <\/p>\n<p><b>To the editor<\/b>: I\u2019m highly supportive of immigrants coming to the United States to escape the conditions of their homelands, be it legally or not. That being said, I\u2019m not supportive of Americans who take advantage of that desperation to earn a profit on their labor.<\/p>\n<p>The recent article on the ICE raids and the car wash whose employees were rounded up by ICE described the work as \u201clow wages for back-breaking labor\u201d (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2025-11-23\/how-one-la-car-wash-is-trying-to-survive-ice-raids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThis L.A. car wash depends on immigrant labor. Can it survive Trump?,\u201d<\/a> Nov. 23). In the next paragraph, the car wash owner was quoted as saying, \u201cAmericans don\u2019t want to do this work.\u201d That\u2019s a true statement, but it\u2019s an incomplete statement. He should have said that they don\u2019t want to do this work for the wages that only a desperate worker would accept.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that he can\u2019t make a profit based on his business model unless there is a way that he can coerce wages not commensurate with the required labor is telling. There are automated car washes that offer a chamois and vacuums for you to complete the process. All labor is dignified, but taking advantage of someone\u2019s legal status is not.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Garber, Duarte<\/p>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p><b>To the editor<\/b>: Gustavo Arellano\u2019s column about the raiding and, in some cases, closing of car washes in Southern California leaves me scratching my head (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-11-18\/clean-car-wash-campaign-deportations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cCar wash workers already had it tough. Then immigration raids slammed them to the ground,\u201d<\/a> Nov. 18).<\/p>\n<p>I live in Mar Vista and two of my local car washes have been closed for months. That\u2019s a thriving business that was employing dozens of people that is now shuttered. And for what? I don\u2019t see unemployed people lining up for jobs at these car washes \u2014 clearly, no one\u2019s job has been stolen by the people working there.<\/p>\n<p>The Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids are a massive waste of money and resources, have disrupted the lives of thousands of people and trampled on individual rights.<\/p>\n<p>Can anyone point out anything good that has come of ICE\u2019s show of force this year? I don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n<p>David Tempest, Mar Vista<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov. 25, 2025 7 AM PT To the editor: I\u2019m highly supportive of immigrants coming to the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":403849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[19872,64,1582,276,6284,7129,2449,8618,1808,8042,2961,606,224,5337,88964,52909,3546,178699,25467,8066],"class_list":{"0":"post-403848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-advantage","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-car-wash","13":"tag-editor","14":"tag-ice-raid","15":"tag-immigrant","16":"tag-immigration-raid","17":"tag-job","18":"tag-la","19":"tag-labor","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-losangeles","22":"tag-low-wage","23":"tag-nov","24":"tag-people","25":"tag-profit","26":"tag-thousand","27":"tag-work"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115610997471777474","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}