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My workplace has a Mexican who refers to himself as Puerta Rican..though he clearly is not. I have oftentimes wondered about him. But I have to say he is one heck of a worker and goes well beyond the requirements of his position. Much pride in what he does. Great personality and gets along wonderful with everyone.

I do think that most of the Hispanics are hard workers and most are good at what they do from what I have seen. In fact they could teach our youth what it is to work!

This summer, I worked with a crew of 50 Hispanics, and they came from 10 different countries. The work was hard, it was hot, it was not glamorous, and at times it was frightening for some of the workers. They all worked their tails off, with good attitudes, no complaints, and for low wages. We worked 12-14 hours a day, 7 days a week, unless we got shut down for weather.

We couldn't get Americans to do the same work for the same wage. But every one of these people were grateful to have the work. And every one of them was able to save money to send something back home to their families. Most of them went to church together, and they played soccer together after work or on an off day.

I don't like “our money” going out of this country any more than anyone else does. But if Americans are going to be too lazy and too proud to get their hands dirty and do a hard day's work, then these people deserve the money, and they deserve to do with it whatever they want.

I have nothing bad to say about hard-working Hispanics who come here to better their lives. They weren't citizens, but they were either here legally, or their documents were good forgeries.