"They took our jobs!" Should really be, "They are illegally giving out our jobs!"
I stumbled upon an article by Thom Hartmann, Immigration: The Issue Republican's are using in 2006, which totally breaks down the dominant point of view of immigration in America, that of “illegal immigration,” and replaces it with “illegal employers.” The thought has crossed my mind in the past, but it’s easy to forget seeing as to how the argument in big media tends to revolve on how people are illegally immigrating to the states and taking the jobs of Americans, instead of the people hiring them - American employers. Thom Hartmann argues that the problem lies with the conservative legislations brought forth since the Reagan administration that have been all too lenient on employers by not reprimanding them for hiring illegal immigrants by fining their breeches off.

At the moment of typing this post I'm eating in a heavenly vegetarian restaurant on campus and notice that the help in the kitchen and around the tables don't seem to understand much English. I think to myself... "My friend Mr. Woodard would love to cook and serve a vegetarian dish to me... But not really."