Although the economy has been the number one issue in this 2010 election season, the problem of illegal immigrants has been lurking closely behind. Many people say that these illegals are taking jobs away from Americans, thus contributing to our economic woes. There is a gas station near my house where immigrants hang out and look for work. On a couple of occasions, I hired people from this location to help with yard work that I couldn’t do on my own. I didn’t ask if they were illegal or not, but I suspect that they were. I’ve learned several clues to detecting illegal immigrants that I believe would be useful for screening purposes:
· (1) Illegal immigrants are regularly willing to hang out at a gas station or other location beginning as early as 6:00 am, even in freezing weather with snow or ice on the ground, hoping to find work for a day.
· (2) Illegal immigrants work much harder than I do, and much harder than anyone else I’ve ever hired. They will do back-breaking work without complaining.
· (3) Illegal immigrants will do anything to make a buck, including nasty yard and house work, caring for our babies and the elderly, and work on chicken farms.
· (4) Illegal immigrants will accept lower pay than any of their licensed and bonded competitors. (Some employers have been known to pay less than minimum wage, knowing that they can get away with it because the workers are illegal.)
Clearly, these attributes of illegal immigrants are dangerous and represent a threat to the American economy. If we want to simplify the process of weeding out those illegals representing the greatest threat to America, we should immediately take the following two steps:
1. Implement a screening test of immigrants based on the criteria above.
2. Any illegal immigrants found who are willing to work hard at jobs we don’t want to do, for next to nothing, should be deported as the first priority.
Only by deporting these dangerous, hard-working immigrants can we protect the American dream.
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