You see, down here in Charleston, you can still get to call grown black men "boys", that's the old south for you. The H2B Guest workers are the "boys" in this hotel. Consider the fact that no matter how well you work, no matter how hard you do your job, for a worker from Jamaica, or Russia, or Mexico, this can only be a dead-end job. You can do a beter job than most of the Americans, in a position that no American would ever consider working in, and you cannot be promoted, you cannot be given a bonus.

90% percent of immigrant workers are hicks. Farmers and people from dirt poor communities for whom even the most menial, humiliating work here is a blessing. When you have no options, American castoffs look pretty good. Every now and then though, there is an exception, the one Mexican who is smart and without opportunities in their own country. Guest worker programs have no opportunities for these people.

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