On 2017-03-13 5:55 AM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 11:40:50 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:

>> I suppose it is a crappy deal, but they come here under the terms
>> of contracts and international agreements. They send all their
>> money back home. They work for less than most people will. It
>> doesn't seem quite right that they should be able to undercut
>> domestic workers and then expect the same benefits.
>
> What doesn't seem right about getting paid fairly and having equal
> benefits? Why is doing the right thing and treating people fairly
> even open to question?
>
> I don't believe that those international agreements are there to
> support human trafficking. Those "contracts" terms are mostly
> available to desperate folks whose choices are limited. Fairness and
> simple decency play no part of it.
>


As I pointed out, they come here under contracts and through government
sponsored programs to work for certain wages and benefits. They are not
paying into the social programs that our citizens are.

FWIW.... I just read an article about a dispute between the governments
of Canada and Nepal. Our government had contracted with a Nepalese
company to provide security for our embassy in Kabul. A bunch of them
were killed in mini bus when it was blown up by a suicide bomber. Nepal
expects Canada to pay compensation to the widows as a humanitarian act.
Canada's position is that the guards worked for Sabre International
Security, a security company that was contracted to provide security and
that it is up to the company to provide compensation.