Yes, Americans *Will* Do those Jobs!!
by Jeff Davis
One of the biggest lies perpetuated by big business and liberal politicians is the completely false statement that “no Americans are willing to do” certain dirty or difficult jobs. The inaccuracy of this statement was recently displayed in Colorado, where the IRS staged one of their rare raids for illegal aliens against a major corporate employer–and hundreds of unemployed Americans lined up outside the plant for a chance to get back the jobs that the illegal s had stolen from them in the first place.
Denver’s Rocky Mountain News reported in a recent article that “The line of applicants hoping to fill jobs vacated by undocumented workers taken away by immigration agents at the Swift & Co. meat-processing plant earlier this week was out the door Thursday.” INS agents raided the Swift plant in Greeley, Colorado on Tuesday, and arrested 261 illegal aliens working there in all capacities, from the processing line itself to the warehouse and janitorial staff. (261 Third Worlders with no concept of American health or hygienic standards, in a food processing plant feeding us all–and we wonder why E-Coli poisoning is on the rise!!) Many of the illegals had been working at the Swift plant for years. A number of them were charged with identity theft and possession of false ID, and more such charges are expected.
Interestingly, most of the local news coverage in the notoriously left-wing Denver media is on the “human interest” angle (which of course never focuses on unemployed white people and their families). Usually they pull out their token Latino reporter to say something like… “These poor undocumented immigrants just wanted to come to America and make a better life for themselves and their families. We should stop punishing them by enforcing outdated immigration laws and give them the legal status that they so richly deserve…”
Another lie about immigration is that illegals don’t really take jobs from Americans because the economy is “booming” and there is plenty of work for everyone. If that’s true, why the rush of hundreds of unemployed to the Colorado Workforce office in Greeley wanting applications and the long line outside the plant’s Human Resources office, only days before Christmas when you would think most people have other things to do? Only desperate people are willing to stand in line in the subzero cold of a Colorado mountain winter (and with the biggest blizzard in some years blowing up) on the chance of a job they may not get.
Interestingly, the Rocky Mountain News restricted interviews among the long line of job seekers to one kid of unidentified race who claimed that he had been friends with two of the illegals (so friendly he leaped to apply for their jobs once they were busted) and one Filipino who was a legal green card alien.
But the photograph accompanying the article inadvertently told a different story. It was of a nineteen year-old young white man named Travis Stoltz who was filling out his application while in line. Young Mr. Stoltz may well be one of the reasons that the System encourages illegal immigration –so that he’s got nowhere to go, but the Army.
The neocons and capitalists who run this country don’t want young men like Travis Stoltz working at decent paying jobs in their home towns. They want the Travis Stoltzes of America in uniform, killing and dying in the deserts of Iraq. Next time you see a pack of Mexicans working on some job site, don’t just think about how many jobs they’re taking away from white American workers. It goes much deeper than that. Think about how many young white boys had to go into the Army or Marines because they knew they had no chance to get a job in their home town. Many of the Americans who go into the military out of sheer desperation will be coming back from Iraq in a plastic bag or a wheel chair because America had no use for them except as cannon fodder in a war for Israeli interests.