You see, they have some problems with housing: "Lancashire Fire Service served a restriction notice on the landlord because of the fire safety fears, limiting tenant numbers in the flat.Twelve people - all Polish - were sharing a bathroom and some had no bed.(...) Among the conditions found, they were three people sharing a room that had only two mattresses, investigators said One tenant, who did not want to be named, told the BBC: "There are 12 of us living here. We have only one fridge. We have to manage as best we can."
"There is no future for us. If I knew I had to live like this there is no way I would have come here."
Widow Grazzinna Zielinska, who is working to support her children back home, said a job she paying almost eight times her monthly Polish salary had attracted her to the UK.
"In Poland there is no work, it is very hard," she said.
"That is why I came here. I thought it would be a lot different to this."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lancashire/4024239.stm
"About 91,000 people from new eastern member states of the EU registered to work in the UK in the five months since the May expansion, figures have shown.(...)However, ministers said up to 45% of those registered were in the UK before 1 May, possibly working illegally."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3998725.stm
Mr. Grudzinski said he hopes that Mr. Bush in his second term will lift visa requirements on Polish tourists and continue to make Polish-American ties "one of the key branches of the trans-Atlantic relationship."
The ambassador said the visa waiver would dramatically boost Polish tourism to the United States.
"We need to have Poles come to Florida to enjoy the sun," he said.
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20041103-090137-1722r.htm This one killed me. And you know, we are still talking about "Visa Waiver" program designed for tourists, not workers especially illegal. Illegals don't pay taxes, simply because they can't work legally and get Social Security Number to pay taxes. "We need to have Poles come to Florida to enjoy the sun," is that a sarcasm or what?