Posted 10:24 AM by Bonnie

Illegal Immigrants: Today the illegal aliens/immigrants in our country are threatening to walk off the job and show us what America would be without them. Let's look at this point by point.

1. They say they take jobs Americans won't take - WRONG! See, this is just another form of outsourcing. I have friends who complain they lost their jobs to outsourcing, when the company they worked for closed their company here to open in another country for CHEAPER labor! Tax breaks to no taxes! The businesses hiring ILLEGAL aliens are doing the same thing.

Americans would fill these jobs for fair wages, health benefits, etc. The illegal aliens work for less than minimum wage. Then our government gives them FREE HEALTH CARE AND FREE EDUCATION FOR THEIR CHILDREN. They mainly get paid cash/under the table and therefor don't report their wages and DON'T PAY TAXES. Those of us who do work legally and pay taxes pay the school taxes that help pay for the education of their children!

2. So, let's talk about education. They are threatening to keep their children home from school - because? why? Their children are going to school FREE while Americans - naturalized or otherwise are paying the taxes that pay for their kids to go to school FREE. Do they understand they aren't doing us any favors, but it's the other way around?

3. They are exercising one of the AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP freedoms - the freedom of assembly and demonstration. These are freedoms legal citizens fought for and earned. So, go ahead and enjoy the freedom that would not be allowed in their own country, while demanding we teach classes in Spanish or other languages because their children aren't Americans and aren't citizens and while they thank us for the free health care and free education, they will be taking their pay back to Mexico to support their country and their children will take their FREE education back to Mexico to make that country a better place.

4. FREE HEALTH CARE! Yes, they do get free health care. Yet, Americans with no health coverage are sent away without treatment or made to have fund raisers to raise the money for operations, etc. We just had to do that for a friend who needed heart surgery, had no health care, and had to pay PRIOR to the operation. Had he been an illegal alien this would have been free to him.

I worked in the fields - picked potatoes, picked grapes, and strawberries. It's hard work, yes, backbreaking yes, but for a fair wage Americans will do the job. As I said before, paying illegal aliens less than minimum wage is the same as outsourcing. Figure it out!

I have worked as a cashier - stocking shelves - cleaning crew - but now a large majority of these jobs are outsourced to illegal aliens and I as well as many other American citizens, who would happily do these jobs - for a fair wage - are out of work.

Now, if the illegal aliens really want to show how much impact they have on America - don't use your free food stamp card for a day, don't utilize the free health care benefits, don't have your baby in America so it will automatically be a citizen. If they really want to show how much impact they have on American they should spend the day in Mexico (where most of them are from) and lessen the crime percentage for the day as well as dropping the percent of illegal drugs that would be sold and used for that one day. No, I'm not saying all of them are drug dealers or users, but enough are to make a difference.

I know there will be those who disagree with me, but if you do and your job has been outsourced think about it. How did you feel when you learned your company was selling out and moving over seas to get cheaper labor and more profit for them? Then think of us unskilled laborers who are out of work now because our jobs are being outsourced to illegal aliens who come here and take our jobs because they are willing to work for less money, because to them everything else is free, and an American dollar is worth much much more in their country.

That's what Zephyrbird thinks!