Back when I was in the paper delivery business ("retired" a year and a half ago), the vast majority of the carriers were Peruvian or Guatemalan. I hate to say it, but any time a route opened up there'd be a white guy on the job for 2-3 days then they just wouldn't show up. In fact, that's what happened with my route once I gave it up. They had a revolving door for awhile before getting someone reliable. It was so bad that they actually called me up in January to see if I was at all interested in picking it up again. 15 hours a week at $390/wk. wasn't a bad PT job (well, if not for the 7/365 thing. You get used to 4AM rise times.) but I declined as my financial situation had improved enough and I enjoyed cutting that tie.

When we had our 40K sq.ft. roof replaced here at work three or so years ago, outside of the owner and his job supervisor/interpreter there wasn't a non-hispanic on the crew. I was talking to the owner about general business matters and he brought up the point that he could not find an American that would do the job for more than a day. They'd hire a new guy, he'd work for a day and call in the next day with back problems or not show up at all. Every guy on his crew is Peruvian, Guatemalan or Mexican. They show up every day, on time, do their job, never complain about having to work overtime, go home and repeat.

Every farmer or landscape contractor that backs up to our loading dock will tell the same story.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)