Immigrants in post 9/11 America have had a rough time gaining proper treatment from their employers. According to Ness 2005, today’s incoming immigrants are more likely to organize and protest than their native-born counterparts. This remains problematic since they are viewed as “illegals” who are a threat to the nation. These workers are absolutely necessary to the profitability of U.S. businesses because immigrants work in occupations that are not attractive to native-born workers. Yet, they are being paid lower wages despite working harder and longer hours. This is the core of why they feel the need to organize against business owners. However, not all immigrants speak up when they are mistreated by their employers. Most immigrants actually don’t even know the existing wage and hour laws, and they’re afraid that speaking up would cause them their jobs or get them reported to the immigration authorities.

I believe that more needs to be done in order to prevent immigrants from being mistreated. As far as I know, immigrants are human-beings too and they deserved to be treated that way. That means being paid a decent wage that they can actually live off of, and not having to constantly live in fear of being deported. Labor Unions aren’t the solution either, because often times they have their own separate agenda. Post 9/11 America needs to learn to be more open and tolerant of immigrants regardless of where they’re from and I think the author of this reading (Ness 2005) could completely agree that there must be a better solution to all this.