The Problem In A Nutshell

Rumors paralyze Mexican workers

Many in the city's restaurant industry stayed home this week because of fears of an immigration raid.

Rumors of a raid by immigration agents in Philadelphia created panic in the city's Mexican community this week, leading many restaurant workers to stay at home, according to immigrants and groups that serve them.

"People have been very frightened," said Rocio Vazquez, consul for protection at the Mexican Consulate in Philadelphia. "They didn't go to work. They didn't take their kids to school. Some people have even said they moved."

"Consul for protection?" I really do not like the ways the Mexican consulate is involved with illegals in this country. Frankly, I think they need to scale back their missions and stop interfering with our country.

Frightened? Good, this is not a bad thing.

The retreat by workers was so widespread that it hurt restaurants in Center City, according to sources in the industry who declined to be named because they did not want their establishments linked to the practice of hiring workers illegally.

One restaurant owner, who declined to be identified, said he had to wash his own dishes.

"It's really hard work," he said.

Yes, yes it is, which is why the pay should be a little better you cheap whiny jerk. It does my heart good to know that a couple of restaurant owners were reminded that, yes, it is hard work, and people should be compensated for it. Now, if we could just get them hire, say, Americans. I started in the restaurant business as a dishwasher lo many years ago, and you would have the nerve to tell me that no American will do these jobs? What am I, a ghost?

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said they have conducted no sweeps for illegal immigrants in Philadelphia recently.

"Nothing, absolutely nothing, is going on as far as an operation," said Ernestine Fobbs, a spokeswoman for the agency in Washington.

This comes as a surprise to whom exactly? Interior enforcement has been non-existant for years. No efforts are currently being undertaken to detect or remove illegal aliens, perhaps this is among the myriad reasons American citizens are so pissed off about this issue.

The argument for not pursuing interior enforcement is that we have bigger priorities, seems sensible on it's face. We need to look for terrorists and narco-criminals/terrorists, and that's true, but let me just make one quick comment. By not enforcing the interior we give the terrorists a huge pool of people in which to hide. What would be a difficult proposition in the best of times becomes a terrifying needle in a haystack, a haystack composed of millions of illegal aliens.

A note to American Business owners. This is coming to your hometown, the time to have a plan is now. God willing and the crick don't rise you will no longer have access to your slave labor in the very near future.

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