No Acronym Tuesday

Well, I still don't have a Tuesday acronym, but I've been wondering about the boycott yesterday.

It wasn't all the illegal immigrants, it's the legal ones I don't understand. Why should we grant amnesty to illegal aliens when they are lowering the wages of americans or legal immigrants.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Tyson Foods Inc. said Friday it would close a number of its meat processing plants Monday in response to a planned nationwide protest by immigrant workers.The meat processor said nine of its more than 100 plants would suspend operations for the day because of an expected lack of workers.A nationwide series of boycotts and marches are planned for May 1 by pro-immigrant activists as part of an effort to urge Congress to grant amnesty to the estimated 11.5 to 12 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States.

"The meat packers are confirming what we know," says University of Maryland economics professor Peter Morici, "and that is that this large group of illegal aliens in the United States is lowering the wage rate of semiskilled workers, people who are high school dropouts or high school graduates with minimal training."In fact, a meat-packing job paid $19 an hour in 1980, but today that same job pays closer to $9 an hour, according to the Labor Department. That's entirely consistent with what we've been reporting -- that illegal aliens depress wages for U.S. workers by as much as $200 billion a year in addition to placing a tremendous burden on hospitals, schools and other social services.

There is a need for people who want to work, and I don't have a problem with immigrants coming here. I just want them to do it LEGALLY!!!!

Some of the signs I saw "This is OUR continent, not YOURS! bothers me too. This is the United States of America. Marching around yelling Chicano Power and holding a Mexican flag does not make me want to endorse amnesty for illegals. If you don't like it here, GO BACK TO MEXICO!

I ripped this off "Whose Paranoid are You?" blog. It's Theodore Roosevelt on being an American from 1907...
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

This is from Yahoo this afternoon...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of mostly Hispanic immigrants walked off the job and rallied in cities across the United States on Monday, wielding their economic clout to demand rights for illegal immigrants.

It appears to me that they have more rights than the homeless or low-income people here already. If they are illegal, then they are criminals, and should be deported. We are the only country in the world that allows this kind of behavior. I'll bet we look like France to the rest of the world.

A buddy of mine said he was going to tape a taco to his hood and keep driving North until someone asks what it is. Sounds like he, at least, has some kind of plan.