Immigrant worker conundrum

Wednesday, Dec 13, 2006 - 03:45:30 pm CST

Well, we have finally been slapped in the face by a reality we all knew: many buiness concerns, meatpackers large among them, depend on illegal immigrant labor. And now, we're in a fine kettle of beef.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands of workers were hauled away leaving production lines silent. Swift tacitly admitted they were harboring (using) the illegals by begging in court to avoid a raid.

Worst of all, perhaps, those workers are parents to young children, many of them U.S. citizens, who may well have gone home to empty houses Tuesday after school.

Now that we are all awake to the scope of this multidimensional problem, what should we do?

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