[Delacon]

And I just came back from a vacation on the beaches of Delaware. Everywhere I turned the youngsters servering my food, and cleaning my hotel room spoke some slavic language. Considering what it takes to come here illegally from Romania, Russia, or wherever, I’d be willing to bet that most of them are here LEGALLY. Paying taxes, observing and being protected by the laws. Now if you want to have a debate on the amount of legal immigrants the US lets in that compete with native born youths and others, well then you have a point about the amount of people we should allow in legally who will always drive down wages. Its worth debating. But my issue right now is with the illegals. Certainly that should be solved first.

[happygrl]

I can tell you from working for one of the concessionaires holding the contract at one of the National Parks that many of these foreign workers are here on special visas from the State Department, and that the State Department also subsidizes their wages.

I know this for a fact.

The Russians had a different reputation here: some of the young women were notorious for making additional wages on the side (wink, wink).