The quickest way to produce more jobs in this country is to weed out every illegal alien who works here and deport them.
The irony of following such a policy, which Democrats would never do, is that the group that would gain the most jobs by following such a policy would be African Americans.
Here in NYC illegals work in high paying factory jobs, health care and the food service industry. Another industry where they predominate is the non-union construction industry.
Without illegals many private contractors who pay their help daily, in cash, would be forced to hire American citizens, many of them African Americans and they would probably never get away with paying them $7-10 an hour. Sure they would probably continue paying them off the books but I’d rather see Americans get that money instead of a third of it being wired every week to Mexico, Jamaica, Ireland, the former Soviet Republics, the Dominican Republic or Haiti.
I know someone who works in the NY Dept of Labor and he told me something I was totally unaware of. Of the above mentioned illegals he tells me that the largest growing population of illegals here in NYC are now Russians (mostly from the republics of the former Soviet Union) and Irish.
Russians are all over the Keys as well, most reliable work force down here.
Back during The Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation of ALL illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed work.
Harry Truman deported over two million Illegal’s after WWII to create jobs for returning veterans.
And then again in 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower deported 13 million Mexican Nationals! The program was called ‘Operation Wetback’. It was done so WWII and Korean Veterans would have a better chance at jobs. It took 2 Years, but they deported them!
Now...if they could deport the illegal’s back then - they could surely do it today!