Blog 14

     In Fast Food Nation, Schlosser "states that in the mid 1980's Latin American citizens, even citizens from Southeast Asia traveled to Colorado for jobs such as a meatpacking job.  Once a middle class job, now a minimal wage job, offered plenty opportunity for about five thousands employees. According to the reading, the average worker quit or was fired every three months.
      As a former employee, terrible work conditions can be a factor of quitting earlier. Also, as immigrants, speaking English was hard to over come for citizens that traveled from their own country. Now, the wages is 9.25, but in the 1980's the wages is way less than that. Immigrants had a hard time to live. They lived in old motel rooms when beds on the floors. Immigrants needed a labor that can help them out work things out. My grandparents were going through the same struggle in the 1980's as my grandma and grandfather both worked hard to put clothes, food, and shelter for my mom, aunts, and uncles.
      In the article, meatpacking workers in Iowa and Nebraska both  have numerous of immigrants. There has been so many people traveling to the u.s.  to look for better living and work that there has been shelters being made for those who have no homes. Those that have no home are usually immigrants. From my point of view, I believe immigrants should have the opportunity to stay in the united states to work hard and survive.