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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:00 AM

Bugs in your bed

Itchy welts? Drops of blood in the sheets? Bedbug infestations are on the rise -- and they're coming to a mattress near you.

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  • Wednesday, October 25, 2006 07:46 AM

    I know this won't be PC

    but you've got to look at the dramatic change in hotel housekeeping staffing which is now almost entirely made up of immigrants, legal and otherwise...

    I had occasion to work in a couple of New Orleans hotels in a capacity which took me from the loftiest penthouse suites to the filthy waste-oil disposal containers on the basement loading docks and I speak from that experience: virtually every service occupation is now dominated by immigrant groups.

    Leave the gilded 'front' of any four star hotel for five minutes and you'll find youself in 'back-of'the-house' which might as well be in any benighted 3rd World country you can name.

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