I've had it.

[BeerSwillr]

I've had it with illegal aliens, illegal immigration, and the complicit attitude of US immigration policy!

My 16 year old has been looking for a summer job for the last 3 months, what he's found has been surprising. Not only are there no summer jobs available, there are no jobs available, period, for someone with no experience.

So you say he's not looking hard enough? That the jobs are there, you just have to find them. HA!

All the entry level, low skill jobs that would normally be taken by teenagers and young adults during the summer are being taken by illegal immigrants, at least here in Texas. The few places that don't hire illegals have to contend with 10 or more applicants for each open position.

So who is this hurting you ask? Just a few teenagers who will be back in school in a couple of months? Just a few teenagers that will contribute little to the overall economic picture? WRONG!

You know the answer. It's hurting everyone. Teenagers would spend almost every penny they earned, contributing immensely to the overall economic health of the US. They would be in the malls, movie theaters, and restaurants spending their hard earned pay, leaving their parents free to spend their money on something else.

The illegal aliens? They used to maintain a low profile. Now, they don't bother. They can be seen everywhere; mowing lawns, planting trees, roofing & framing houses, working at the lube shack, pouring concrete, gathering at several official and unofficial day worker hang-outs in the mornings (when it would be extremely easy for immigration to swoop in and arrest them.)

Where you don't and won't see them is out spending their money (except for at Wal-Mart.) You don't see them at Bennigans, Chilis, Tony Romas, Cinemark, the mall, car dealerships, etc.

Know why?

They don't have any money to spend on the US economy because they're sending everything except a small subsistence back to Mexico.

The illegals are not here to help us or the US economy. Anyone that says they are here to take jobs that US citizens don't want is being disingenuous.

They're siphoning off millions of dollars a year from the economy. Not only by taking jobs, but a host of other ways; education benefits, medical assistance, government assistance, thievery, robbery, drug dealing, you name it, they're involved in it.

And what is the Department of Homeland Security™ doing about this? They're putting on a dog and pony show.

They're outlining major new methods of monitoring ports of entry, airports, etc. with biometrics, fingerprinting, radar, facial recognition technology, and who knows what else, while at the same time doing nothing to monitor thousands of miles of open space where, apparently, it is relatively easy to cross into the US.

It seems to me that simple reconnaissance flights over that vast unmonitored territory would be able to identify these border violations and put a stop to, or at least slow, this illegal invasion of our country.

The Department of Homeland Security™ is largely ignoring the issue. Illegal entry into the US continues unabated across our borders.

It makes me sick.

What can we do about it? Other than mew weakly and post articles like this on the large wasteland that is the internet?

Contact your elected officials and let them know what you're thinking. Let them know you will hold them accountable. It's all in our hands.

http://www.senate.gov/

http://www.house.gov/

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

[Joe Hadenuf]

Throughout high school I had these type of jobs. Now the kids can't get them. Granted some kids may not want these type of jobs, but many do.

Their discussing this now on the westcoast blowtorch station, KFI 640. It reminded me of your thread. There talking about how literally hundreds of thousands of jobs that used to be held by our young people have been taken by illegals, that are willing to work for near nothing, and won't complain about working conditions, or ask for raises etc, etc.

[#3Fan]

Yep, they are standing by, waiting for your call (sarcasm). With the exception of Representative Tancredo (Repub from CO) the Republicans are ecstatic about the cheap labor and the possibility of a few votes.

Tancredo has a guestworker plan also. Do you agree with a guestworker plan?

[Joe Hadenuf]

It is, and the landscape is littered with American victims.

[cyborg]

My mother and father were immigrants to this country. My mother way more recent, in fact my mother came here as guest worker putting labels on soup cans in the 1960s. Now that she's a citizen, she asked me if she could write in Pat Buchanan as a protest vote *LOL*

[winker]

You da MAN! reading my mail!

[philetus]

Doesn't that make them virtual illegal aliens since the law is not treated as a law?

[humblegunner]

The illegal aliens? They used to maintain a low profile. Now, they don't bother. They can be seen everywhere; mowing lawns, planting trees, roofing & framing houses, working at the lube shack, pouring concrete, gathering at several official and unofficial day worker hang-outs in the mornings (when it would be extremely easy for immigration to swoop in and arrest them.)

Who, these guys? They are all engineers, quitcher whining.

[BeerSwillr]

For all the money its costing I would have guessed that Houston light rail had some fancy stations. From the looks of the pictures I guess I was wrong.