The constant rattling on of "guest worker" amnesty programs is based a lot because those who support it honestly believe that illegal aliens take jobs that Americans don't want. Anyone with a brain knows that is a crock of shit. There are plenty of Americans who were doing the jobs prior to the massive influx of illegal aliens over the past twenty years and they're willing to do it today. About the only thing stopping them is that they aren't willing to work for less than minimum wage and that unlike illegal aliens have to have taxes withheld from their paychecks with a contribution from their employer in the form of payroll taxes as well.

This is born out in this little piece in the Washington Times that shows what has happened to 70 legal workers and American citizens hired from one Alabama employment agency in the Hurricane Katrina disaster area. I bold the previous because there are surely hundreds and thousands of the exact same stories going on throughout the country.

An Alabama employment agency that sent 70 laborers and construction workers to job sites in that state in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina says the men were sent home after just two weeks on the job by employers who told them "the Mexicans had arrived" and were willing to work for less. Linda Swope, who operates Complete Employment Services Inc. in Mobile, Ala., told The Washington Times last week that the workers -- whom she described as U.S. citizens, residents of Alabama and predominantly black -- had been "urgently requested" by contractors hired to rebuild and clear devastated areas of the state, but were told to leave three job sites when the foreign workers showed up.

"After Katrina, our company had 70 workers on the job the first day, but the companies decided they didn't need them anymore because the Mexicans had arrived," Mrs. Swope said. "I assure you it is not true that Americans don't want to work.

"We had been told that 270 jobs might be available, and we could have filled every one of them with men from this area, most of whom lost their jobs because of the hurricane," she said. "When we told the guys they would not be needed, they actually cried ... and we cried with them. This is a shame."

Mrs. Swope said employment agencies throughout Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi faced similar problems, when thousands of men from Mexico and several Central and South American countries -- many in crowded buses and trucks -- came into the three states after Katrina, looking for employment and willing to work for less money.

First, let me say to President Bush that you're full of horseshit every single time you open your trap on your plans for immigration reform. It is quite obvious that he has never been a laborer or been on the short end of the income scale because when you're at rock bottom you'll pretty much take any honest job. Some even turn to crime which is inherently risky in order to survive. To say they wouldn't take a legit job is a slap in the face to all laborers.

Second, the article notes that the workers were predominantly black. So the next time you hear of some civil rights group supporting illegal immigration you might want to point out that these same illegal aliens that they support are taking jobs away from their constituents.

Every time I hear someone quote that false mantra I think of the guys in New York City who go down and clean out the sewers. If it were true that Americans don't want certain jobs then that would definitely be one of the first ones that no one wanted. Yet that job has been filled in the past -- and is currently filled -- by legal workers and citizens of this nation. To tell them they should just give their job up to an illegal alien because the work "is beneath them" and that they should starve instead is ridiculous.

Tipped by: Gay Orbit

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