Immigrants in the US

There has been a recent huge awareness brought about by the government working to do something about illegal immigrants in this country. There is this claim that we need illegal immigrants because they do the work that "white" people don't want to do.

Being one of the "white" people I feel qualified to comment. The idea that "white" people don't want these jobs is ludicrous. White people don't want to do these jobs for $6 - $8 an hour because you can't support yourself and certainly not a family on about $300 a week. Wanting or not wanting to work isn't the issue. These jobs were here and done by white people long before Latin Americans were a major part of this country. IT is the employers that want to maximize profits as opposed to pay a decent wage.

Some of you may not know but this show is associated with Access TV so that means that I have to pay to do this not get paid. That being the case I have to maintain a second job. Some times it is doing web sites and other times computer related stuff but about 3 days a week I work construction. And I'm not talking finish work, I do concrete and mason work. The dirtiest, nastiest job on a construction site. But I do it for more than $8 an hour.

The real issue - the real issue isn't that people are needed or not needed for jobs, the real issue is being ILLEGAL. I am not a Native American so my relatives came over. My maternal grand parents were from Holland and Slovenia, and my Paternal were from Italy and Hungary. But they were all legal.

It is like a party, there are finite resources for the party, only so much to drink so much to eat. You can't invite everyone. If we do then why not just make the whole world the United States? There are laws established to be followed. We need to put in some checks to see that they are.