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I would like to suggest that there be ways for jobs that non-citizens are now doing be put up for grabs. For instance, if it was learned that a non-citizen was doing a laundry job in SE MA, it should be in a special classified section of the newspaper. If a citizen claims it, the non-citizen should be sent home and the job should be providing wages for us.

If someone is hiring illegals, they should be fined and go to jail. If they don't immediately admit it and sign up for the process to replace those people, they should lose their jobs, get even more jail time and stiffer fines, even be open for lawsuits filed for citizens who would do the job.

We know the percentages opposed to foreigners doing work US citizens would do. We know the percentages opposed to the invasion. Face it, folks, except for a few heroes such as Representative Tancredo, everyone else is supporting the status quo...cheap labor, cheap votes, the destruction of the middle class in America.

I'm disgusted. President Bush knows how conservative Americans feel about this issue. He's circumventing the political process and supporting a form of globalism that is not helpful to the aspirations of average US citizens who want to maintain what they have worked so hard for.

George Bush is treating conservatives like the Democrats treat the Blacks. Karl Rove has decided conservatives will vote for Bush no matter what they do. We'll see in Nov. if he was right. However, I personally will not be voting for a president who can stand up to Saddam Hussein but not to Vicente Fox.

I would like to suggest that there be ways for jobs that non-citizens are now doing be put up for grabs. For instance, if it was learned that a non-citizen was doing a laundry job in SE MA, it should be in a special classified section of the newspaper. If a citizen claims it, the non-citizen should be sent home and the job should be providing wages for us.

Presently, illegal aliens have a major competitive advantage over legal residents: unscrupulous employers can rely upon them not to report violations of wage, safety, or other such laws. If illegal aliens were free to report such violations (and were widely known to be so), such freedom would undermine much of the reason employers would want to hire them in the first place.

And if people are offered the opportunity to stay in this country legally if and only if they report their employment, and yet they refuse to do so, then the act of having offered them legal residency may make it politically much easier to deport them.