Immigration Reality: Undocumented workers: essential but unwanted

An LA Times columnist, Gregory Rodriguez, hits the "illegal immigration" nail on the head.

Undocumented workers: essential but unwanted - MercedSun-Star.com: "When it comes to illegal immigration, nobody seems to take responsibility, and we are all, through action or inaction, complicit.


Whatever your feelings about illegal immigration, if you eat vegetables, enjoy restaurants, reside in a house built in the last 30 years or ever let a valet park your car, the chances are you're implicated in the hypocritical politics that allows 7 million to 8 million people to work illegally in the country.


Why don't these immigrants come here legally? Because the U.S. grants only about 150,000 visas annually for temporary low-skilled laborers, a paltry percentage of the number of such workers that the economy easily absorbs yearly." Oct. 13, 2010