[427TJ]

Here I go typing again...

(Please excuse the CAPITAL LETTERS. I'm not YELLING, I use them for EMPHASIS.)

First off, this is one HUGE DISTRACTION in an election year. The isn't EVER going to be any mass-deportation of Hispanic illegals or any other illegals no matter what congressmen or senators say in front of the TV cameras.

American business is HOOKED ON IMMIGRANT LABOR as if it were crack cocaine. That's why the president is trying to get an "amnesty" bill through congress. "Amnesty" means NOTHING CHANGES and any and all illegals STAY RIGHT HERE.

The main temptation for hiring illegals is that they have no recourse where on-the-job injury is concerned. If they get hurt then they just suck it up and either keep working or they walk away and are replaced by the next illegal immigrant laborer. No Workmen's Comp, no welfare--unless they're scamming those systems but that's not easy despite conventional wisdom.

Another main temptation is the fact that they come CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP and dare not form or join UNIONS. (Yes, the UFW came about in the '60s but since then: nada.) I know: "Unions cause all the problems." Maybe in some cases, but illegals are PERFECT where American corporations are concerned. So is China. See: outsourcing. Illegal labor and China serve to keep unionized and non-union labor scared for their jobs. Gonna' strike? Then we'll let those illegals (who've been given "amnesty") come do your job. Well, maybe it's not that easy but it sure works as a good scare tactic. 'Keeps those uppity "OVERPAID" American laborers afraid of being replaced by illegals.

OOPS, I mean "GUEST WORKERS."

If GM or Ford could put non-union immigrant labor on the assembly lines and dump the pension and benefit programs they'd do it IN A SECOND. AND CARS WOULD NOT COST ONE PENNY LESS.

"But Amercians won't do these jobs." Oh yes they will! They just won't do it for jack-squat like desperate illegals will. Each one of us values our own paycheck and knows we deserve every dollar we earn. American business just doesn't want to pay Americans if they can avoid it, therefore, ILLEGALS WILL REMAIN A MAJOR FACTOR IN AMERICAN LABOR.

All this puffed-up hyper-furor (on TV) over illegal immigration is going to do is distract all of us away from whatever is going badly for the politicos in Washington. It takes our minds off of Iraq, the federal deficit, the economy (for anyone who isn't rich), education, health care---pick something. This illegal immigration hype is just a convenient distraction in an election year.

Why has this suddenly come up now? No one seemed to care for the past 10, 25, 50, 75, 100 years? Yeah, we've all known that illegals have been coming across the southern border and yeah, they've been flooding across lately, but don't get too anxious about the situation changing. American business is HOOKED on illegal labor and there ain't nothing gonna' change.

Okay, I'm heading out to the garage and test-fit my new wheels on my Camaro!