Yeah let's keep those borders porous. We need more immigrants like these guys.
"Seven suspects who were arrested in connection with an
attempted robbery at a jewelry store in Texas over the weekend have been identified as Mexican nationals that were in the U.S. illegally."
Texas mall robbery suspects ID'd as Mexican nationals in US illegally
I used to live and work in the Detroit, MI area. My job, after getting settled in, was high volume, entry-level headhunting for a start-up staffing agency. Some weeks the handful of client manufacturing companies would put in orders for over one hundred short-term temps, with a few days notice. Now, I was office manager of a staffing office independent of corporate HQ, newly leased for me in a historic downtown building, as well as recruiter, secretary, account manager, etc. I begged them to hire me up some help, but that's a different tale.
At length, my job was to build a database of thousands of low-skill, low education, low wage expectation new hire potentials, all so I could meet weekly mass hire events to meet real time client demands. I alone was responsible for doing orientation briefings for sometimes nearly two hundred potentials, aiding non-English speakers with the application packet, doing on-site instant result drug screening, and verifying applicant citizenship.
Over 95% of my applicants were Hispanic with national origins running the gamut from South and Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean, etc. Of that percentage of new hire potentials, a very large section were either illegally in the U.S. or their immigrant status was so ambiguous as to be indeterminable. In order to meet client labor demands, my company V.P. recommended without my own choice in the matter, hiring the ones we couldn't verify or disqualify on "confirmed" illegal status.
Long story, finally down to the near end, the primary manufacturing company I staffed for that year was located in a small Ohio town. More and more regularly I was sent down there on certain days to hold on-site hiring events and do safety orientations for new hires. What absolutely blew me away, was how a small, fairly remote flatland country town had been transformed into a sideshow amalgamation of national cultures from south of our southern borders. Seemed I alone had aided in the transformation of the generational culture of that town in meeting the labor needs of a busy, booming domestic manufacturer.
While I cannot confirm or deny increase in crime due to the immigrant workers I sent down there, I did get an unwanted front row seat to cultural invasion, assimilation and replacement. That's not to say, in all fairness, I did not enjoy exposure to the different cultures and practice with different dialects--even some indigenous ones, and always felt rewarded in connecting hard workers with jobs. Even if very few of them were U.S. citizens.
