Well, Surprise, Surprise, Here Is An Employment Fix
by James Glaser
February 22, 2010

Every time Wanda and I travel, we end up staying at a motel, hotel, or sometimes, a bed and breakfast. One thing everyone of these facilities has in common is a cleaning staff whose first language is not English.

More often than not, the women cleaning the room we stay in cannot speak English, and I'm guessing here, but I would bet most room cleaners are not here legally.

"According to Census Bureau data published in September 2004, there are 49,983 Hotels, Motels, Inns and B&B's in the United States."
[Source: Table 1, Page 14]
Accommodation and Food Services Industry Series
Issued September 2004
U.S. Department of Commerce
Economics and Statistics Administration
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

By now, the number of hospitality facilities is way over 50,000, which means there are millions of rooms to be cleaned.

Here is another industry I know from first hand experience. A good percentage of roofers, sheet rockers and tapers, plumbers, painters, and landscape workers are not legal either.

Some estimates put the number of illegal aliens working in America at over 10 million. Now isn't that a surprise? We need about 10 million jobs for the Americans who are now out of work.

Yes, I know it would be a hardship to kick all of those illegals out of their jobs, but guess what? They are called illegal aliens because the committed a crime by coming here in the first place. Usually in America, people who commit crimes are punished, but lately wealthy people want to look the other way so they can keep more of their money by employing cheap labor. That goes for corporations, too. Corporate profits rise with lower wages.

That is nice when legal Americans are working, but things have changed. Read this from yesterday's New York Times:

The New Poor
Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs

By PETER S. GOODMAN
Published: February 20, 2010

BUENA PARK, Calif.—Even as the American economy shows tentative signs of a rebound, the human toll of the recession continues to mount, with millions of Americans remaining out of work, out of savings and nearing the end of their unemployment benefits.

So, we have a choice. We can keep letting the rich and the corporations have their cheap foreign illegal workers while millions of legal American citizens suffer through no fault of their own, or we can remove the people who broke our law by coming here, and put American citizens back to work.

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