How can it be?

From the Rocky Mountain News:

GREELEY - 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.

Among them was Derrick Stegall, who carefully filled out paperwork he hoped would get him an interview and eventually land him a job as a slaughterer. . .

Greg Bonifacio heard about the job openings on television and brought his passport, his Colorado driver's license, his Social Security card and even a color photograph of himself as a young Naval officer to prove his military service.

"I don't want to hassle with any identification problems because of my last name," said Bonifacio, a 59- year-old Thornton resident of Filipino heritage.

Bonifacio was hoping to get a job in production or fabrication. So was Nathan Korgan, a former construction worker whose company closed and moved to California.

But Americans won't do this kind of work!

And it is in the meat packing industry! If we don't have Mexicans there won't be any meat to eat. And we'll all starve. To DEATH! In the snow!

It would seem that the reports of how badly we need the alien criminals in our workforce are greatly exaggerated. Every native or naturalized citizen and legal resident standing in line for the chance for a job at the Swift plant is someone whose job had been taken by an illegal alien.

I do not blame those who wish to leave a desperately poor corrupt cesspool like Mexico for a better life in the US, but since the people who already live here will line up "out the door" for jobs should we not take care of our own before we try to employ the rest of the world?

Send those illegals who have been here for years and those who were born here to illegal parents and have been raised and educated here back to Mexico. They have had plenty of time, all their lives in some cases, to see how to organize and govern a nation in such a way as it becomes prosperous and free and powerful. Let them take that knowledge back to their rightful home and transform it.

Mexico is a nation rich in natural resources and human capital. It is poor only because of a profound failure of government. People who have seen it done right up close could change all of that - if they were put in a position where escape to the US was not an option.