Reply #51: My ancestors landed in Salem, Mass. in 1628 [View All]

and the people who eventually became known as Native Americans mistakenly let them live. If they knew then what they know now, it might have been different.

The city where I live here in Wisconsin does not have an illegal immigration problem, but there are many illegals working in places like a meat packing plant and furniture factory in not neighboring, but close-by small communities. The community with the meat packing plant has made peace with having illegals there because they know otherwise they would lose the only business in town. Immigration knows that these illegals are here, make no mistake about it. The bottom line concerning illegals and jobs is that if you provide the work and pay them they will come. the illegals know the drill and the double-talk: it is illegal for you to come here, but if you make it there will be a job waiting for you. The Bush administration has been far less willing than previous one to enforce penalties against employers who hire illegals.