After coming to Georgia from an ox-and-plow farming village in Mexico, Ms. Valencia had a 12-year career at a fast-food restaurant in a suburban mall, rising from hamburger flipper to cashier to assistant manager. Among her most carefully preserved possessions are two diplomas for the companys management training courses.
How could someone be here seventeen years, go through a management training course, and still need an interpreter? Also, as someone who once worked in fast food, there's no way I believe she was not taking at least one of those jobs from an American. This is another example of "They're just taking jobs Americans won't do." is a lie.
In the NYC area it is getting increasingly difficult to get any job in retail without Spanish, due in large part to the government’s selling out our American dream. There is no doubt they are outrught stealing jobs from legal Americans. Thankfully as the economy sputtered I come home less and less to a neighborhood filled with illegal aliens doing yardwork for cash; when the illegals start leaving your area you know you have a full-blown Depression...