Hm... I grew up in Jasper County, Indiana, USA... Which is the highest yielding county in the country... To those not familiar with farming terms, it means that per acre they produced more agricultural goods than any other county in the USA. So needless to say agriculture is a big part of my background. My grandfather was a farmer and my brother just recently took over his farm... They do everything themselves. They've never highered any immigrants to do any sort of work them. If they need labor they pay young high school students to do it. But the farms that higher immigrants are the corporate farms that just want the workers for a short period of timeto do a certain task. They hire them and fire them when they're done with them. Sounds pretty shady... but that's the way it is. I've heard a saying "The rich get richer until the poor get educated". That saying is so true. Immigrants come to the US and they lack the basic skills to do most jobs. It's not that they don't possess the potential to do a certain job. They just don't presently possess the skills neccessary. Why should an underqualified person get a job just because they'll work for less? Thats the problem that we as US citizens run into.

Then you have people that say... "Well, these immigrants are taking jobs that homeless people could use to turn their lives around." Homeless people are homeless because most of them aren't willing to go out and get a job. The ones that want jobs can find them. I do have pity on the homeless people that get a raw deal in some way or another and are left out on the streets... but most are their because of the choices that they've made. Immigrants aren't taking any homeless peoples jobs.

I welcome any one into this country. But it is frustrating that we have to change so much to accomodate them. They're in our country and they should have to adapt to us. Not the other way around. I predict that spanish will be tought in elementary schools as a mandatory course within the next 10 years... Becuase of the rise in the Latin occupancy in this country. Our native language is English and if I have to learn a different language just so I can communicate in my own counrty... somethings wrong...