{"id":2154,"date":"2009-03-20T00:12:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T04:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2009-03-20T00:13:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T04:13:04","slug":"jay-ambrose-gets-it-too-many-jobs-going-to-illegals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/20\/jay-ambrose-gets-it-too-many-jobs-going-to-illegals\/","title":{"rendered":"JAY AMBROSE GETS IT: Too many jobs going to illegals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jay Ambrose &#8212; Washington Examiner <\/em>         <\/p>\n<p><strong>Too many jobs going to illegals  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>A<strong> janitor\u2019s job opened up at an elementary school in Ohio, and within a week there were 839 applications. If that doesn\u2019t tell our policy makers anything about a way to address the nation\u2019s unemployment problems, I&#8217;ll help them out&#8230; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hundreds of thousands of people are desperate for work at the moment. Many will do almost anything honest. Though this job paid $15 an hour, they\u2019ll work for less than that if they have to.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But if menial positions don\u2019t scare them away, something else sideswipes their hopes \u2013 illegal aliens who have already stolen work they\u2019d like to have, who keep wages lower than they would otherwise be and who are themselves frequently exploited, sometimes sweating for less than the minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>One answer is to send the illegals packing, thus eventually freeing up millions of jobs, and here is another: Change immigration laws to favor the skilled and educated, thus boosting the economy and helping it grow.<\/p>\n<p>Please, please, skip the argument that American citizens won\u2019t do the work \u2013 they already constitute the vast majority of workers in virtually every field employing illegals \u2013 and cut out the blather that enforcement of our immigration laws would be either impossible or cruel or that only a bigot would worry more about the welfare of citizens than taking care of residents breaking the law.<\/p>\n<p>Hardly anyone is suggesting a massive, national sweep of the illegal aliens. The need is for an insistent crackdown on employers who have first been equipped by the federal government with reliable methods of figuring out who is legal and who isn\u2019t<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columns\/JayAmbrose\/Too-many-jobs-going-to-illegal-immigrants-41410422.html\"> MORE!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Ambrose &#8212; Washington Examiner Too many jobs going to illegals A janitor\u2019s job opened up at an elementary school in Ohio, and within a week there were 839 applications. If that doesn\u2019t tell our policy makers anything about a way to address the nation\u2019s unemployment problems, I&#8217;ll help them out&#8230; Hundreds of thousands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}