I just finished a post to my "history blog" about illegal immigrants and whether or not they should cooperate with the up-coming national census. How can people be in this country illegally and be counted toward the total population of the state and county in which they illegal live? How can one government agent count a person who another government agent is suppose to arrest? Talk about the need for an overhaul of our immigration policy. What really burns my butt is the fact that during the last election cycle those who complained the most about the illegal alien population were the same ones who regularly benefit from that population. The company owners who hired illegals, or looked the other way when an agent did so, then paid then as little as possible with no benefits or legal rights and threatened them with the INS if they complained. The country club types who needed someone to water the greens and cut the fairways and didn't want to pay a decent wage for the work. The wealthy who also needed their lawns mowed and bushes trimmed for as little as they could get away with. The giant agricultural mega-farms who needed cheap labor. These are the ones who have always wanted cheap labor, be it slaves, children or illegals, and who in most cases are registered republicans.
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