"ILLEGAL" alien...
The State of North Carolina has been openly encouraging illegal aliens since long before President Bush was elected.
If you really want to get upset, read the Spanish papers in NC,
Las Carolinas and
La Noticia with the
Lycos On line Translator if necessary. There are several more papers throughout the state.
[excerpted and translated from this week's editorial in
La Noticia]
...We hope that one [change for 2004] takes the shape so needed of reform in the immigration laws. The undocumented workers have been for years the fuel of the economy of this nation. They do the badly-paid servant work, that most of the Americans no longer want to do. It is a situation from which the employers, the government and the economy in general benefit. Even so, these undocumented workers do not have access to the benefits that the American employees receive almost with certainty, like insurance of health, savings for the retirement and insurance of unemployment. We must choose ready people to defend the rights of this essential but not very appreciated group of workers....[snip].