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I have to echo what many other writers have already said - this "immigration reform bill" is the result of an unholy alliance between bleeding hearts who seem to think the United States should open its doors to all the underpriveldged of the world and rapacious businessmen who like nothing more than a plentiful supply of really cheap labor. I'm sick of people like Shapiro running on about the illegals only taking jobs Americans don't want. That tired argument may apply to jobs such as stoop labor in the fields and dishwashers in big city restaurants, but it certainly doesn't apply to formerly high paying jobs in construction, meat packing and several other areas. Recently some large apartment complexes have gone up in my home town in West Virginia and the overwhelming majority of the workers were imported out-of-state Spanish speakers, and there were several busts of illegals. My state has MANY resident unemployed workers eager to pound nails, put up drywall and paint in contruction jobs, but they aren't being hired. Ted Kennedy and his ilk claim to be friends of the working man, but they sure as hell aren't friends of labor in the old sense of supporting unions and high wages.
