[nina0113]

College-looking girl was passing out Immigration-Support flyers at the Rosslyn Metro this morning - I crumpled it up & threw it away right in front of her, then returned from the gate to tell her about the black churches in PG recruiting laborers to rebuild New Orleans. When the buses got down there, they were sent right back. They were told “We don’t need you now, the Mexicans are here.” I told her illegal immigrants were putting American citizens out of work and that SHE was supporting that. Look of horror crossed her face, maybe she’ll retain a clue.

[angkor]

“We don’t need you now, the Mexicans are here.”

I'm glad you gave that naive little twit an education in basic reality and economics.

I manned a jackhammer building the Silver Spring Metro station one summer, late 70's. It helped to put me through college, doing that "job Americans don't want."

Another summer, and another "job Americans don't want", which was setting-up and then removing the concrete forms used to build residential home foundations.

During college semesters, I had yet another "job Americans don't want" with an office moving company in DC. We'd head downtown at 7PM to some federal agency or another, and relocate the entire agency to another office building somewhere else (usually just a few blocks away). Speed with of the essence, and we'd usually finish exhausted between 1am and 3am.

Yep, it's a good thing there are Mexicans to take "the jobs Americans don't want."

By the way, there was some arrogant "Latino advocate" being interviewed on a news show recently, and bragging that "Mexicans are rebuilding New Orleans, not Americans."

No wonder Mary Landrieu voted NO to cloture eaelier today.