I could not have said it any better Roy. I live very near Putnam County IN and what you experienced is not isolated to the Greencastle, Bainbridge area. These same 'facts of life' are evident throughout Indiana. Until you get to the big cities like Indianapolis or Gary the immigrant population is small and yet all of the work gets done. White Americans fold laundry, mow lawns, trim trees, work construction, serve tables, wash dishes and work the convenience stores. Suggesting that we need illegal aliens to fill service jobs because all colors of Americans will not do them is a blatant falsehood. Service sector jobs are some of the first jobs filled by recent high school graduates. My question for those who insist on amnesty is why do you care so little about the recent high school graduates that you would deny them jobs that you just gave to illegal aliens? That lacks compassion.

Jobs Americans won't do,not according to this news article!!!

Farming jobs being picked clean by U.S. residents
By Anastasiya Bolton
The KUSA News (Denver), June 23, 2009
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=118219&provider=top&catid...

Lafayette, CO -- It is hot, there is no shade from the unforgiving Colorado sun, other than the hats that protect their faces.

Three people are helping Jason Condon and the Isabelle Farm grow organic radishes, lettuce, tomatoes and potatoes for sale mainly here, in Colorado.

Anne-Marie Cory got this part-time job at the Lafayette farm last year. This is her job away from her other part-time office gig.

'I have to have my hands in the dirt,' Cory said.

Cory loves this job, a job that's becoming increasingly competitive.

Farmers can use what's called the H-2A program to recruit foreign workers to do temporary or seasonal work here in the U.S.

From July to September of 2008, there were 171 H2-A jobs posted. Thirty-nine Americans applied for those positions.

The very next quarter, in the final three months of 2008, 887 Americans applied for the 981 H-2A available. And as unemployment jumped at the beginning of 2009, so did applications from Americans; 1,799 applied for 726 jobs. That means instead of the jobs being filled by foreign or migrant workers, they are mostly going to U.S. residents.

'A lot of the American workers are now applying for farm jobs that maybe they may not have applied for in the past,' said Olga Ruiz, state monitor advocate with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. 'People who started out in agriculture or even field labor who got out of that field maybe went into construction or other types of work, who maybe got laid off for whatever reason, decided they wanted to go back to farm work, because it's a paycheck and they need it.'

Condon posted two farm hand positions on Craigslist in April. He said he had to turn people away. Thirty-eight people applied.

'We had people with doctorates, we had people with masters degrees we had people with all sorts of different career backgrounds,' he said. 'Carpenters, people who've worked on farms in other countries, people who have managed museums, all sorts of things you would never suspect you would find on a farm labor application.'

Condon says it's great for his small organic farm.

'Growing food for people is kind of a powerful thing and once you kind of do it, it's surprisingly addictive,' he said.

Condon says he's kept some of those applications for the time he might need extra help.

Those looking for the available jobs on farms can find listings at their local workforce centers.

You can learn more about Condon's farm at www.isabellefarm.com or visit the state unemployment Web site at http://www.coworkforce.com/.

GREED is the culprit...pure and simple...GREED - GREED!!! Take the profit out of it and the whole thing will collapse and the illegals will soon be no problem.

Mr Politician, Mr Chamber of Commerce, Mr Industralist, Mr Capitalist, Mr Farmer, Mr Citizen: What concessions will you make to save our beloved country? Indeed, do you even care?

All,
I often see it implied in the mainstream media that amnesty (or comprehensive immigration reform, earned legalization, path to citizenship, or whatever they call it) is inevitable and it is only a matter of time before it happens. I certainly don't think that is true, but more importantly, I don't think that the proponents of amnesty really believe that either. On the contrary, I think that they believe that attrition through enforcement overall, and workplace enforcement in particular (workplace enforcement being the main thrust of attrition through enforcement), is effective in both stopping and reversing illegal immigration and would ultimately result in the vast majority of illegal immigrants leaving the country. This effectiveness freightens them, so they concentrate their efforts on opposing internal enforcement and workplace enforcement.
In looking at the Congressional report cards, I have noticed that even many pro-amnesty members of Congress typically vote for border security measures such as the virtual fence (which are not that effective in stopping illegal immigration). They vote for these so they can make it look like they are trying to stop illegal immigration. But the measures that truly are effective in fighting illegal immigration are strongly opposed by the pro-amnesty groups and members of Congress. E-Verify has only recently become controversial because it has become obvious that it works and more and more businesses are using it now. The SSN No-Match proposal would likely have been effective, so they opposed that. Essentially, they will support measures that look tough but in reality are ineffective (such as the virtual fence), but will oppose effective measures such as E-Verify and often (ironically) justify their opposition by saying they don't work. The mainstream media rarely mentions attrition through enforcement as a strategy, possibly because they are trying to cover up the effectiveness of such a strategy.
The pro-amnesty crowd might say that amnesty is inevitable, but if they really believed that, they wouldn't oppose such programs as E-Verify as strongly as they do.
James Bowen
Ames, Iowa

Years ago people said that reactionaries were against contraception because it would check population growth and hence make labor more expensive. When laws against contraception were finally overturned, the reactionary attitude, in the form of excessive legal immigration and toleration of illegal immigration, began to permeate the policy of the Democratic Party, encouraged by Senator Kennedy. Now it is the Republican right which strongly opposes illegal immigration, thus championing the working class, at least on this issue. This kind of flipflop is not new in the history of our party system, but in general the electorate is not aware of its present reappearance. If more people looked at Congressional grades on your web site, they might think twice about the candidates they vote for.

I'd love one of those so-called jobs that no American would do. In fact, I HAD a cleaning business and because illegals pushed me out, I no longer have my business and I am out of work. My husband is in construction and he is also out of work, pushed out by illegals. Obama needs to stop worrying about people who broke our laws and start creating AMERICAN jobs from those massive amts. of AMERICAN stimulus dollars. He needs to open up some factories to make jobs for AMERICANS who make AMERICAN products sold and bought in AMERICA. Novel concept, huh, that a country should take care of their own?!

And how about incentives for women NOT to have babies! I thought the liberals were worried for the environment. Three plus children X's millions who are doing this and what natural resources will be left for those children? Ah, the sins of the fathers...and mothers. Quite selfish, actually!!

I came as a legal immigrant to these shores 50 years ago.
Why do illegals think they are special?
Instead of lining up at the end of the line they jump ahead of everyone, thumping their noses at law-abiding immigrants.
I know we can't deport 20 million illegals but I do know that a policy of ATTRITION THROUGH ENFORCEMENT does work!
Coupled with mandatory jail time for employers who knowingly hire illegals, thereby shifting part of their labor costs onto the public, the problem would disappear in a short time. Americans are waiting for the jobs thus becoming available....

The AI problem is so large in the USA we sometimes think we are the only ones with the problem.
Just ran across this article that you may find interesting, regarding the problem and Amnesty costs to taxpayers in England.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1177133/Each-illegal-immigrant-c...

The notion that there are jobs that Americans will not do is a very short step from the racist idea that there are jobs that people of certain races should not be expected to do. I think that attitude sometimes underlies the argument. Rather than paying our own citizens (of all races) decently to do all the jobs that need to be done (as we once did in many places), some people like the idea of creating or maintaining a racial underclass that works cheap and "knows its place." They are comfortable having people who must stand on a street corner in the morning waiting for some guy to drive up, look them over, and say, "you, you, and you."

Where I grew up in Iowa, white Americans did every job, and everyone worked with dignity. I've done many of the jobs that Roy describes, and I bet most of us have. I took any job I could get and I was proud of working hard and diligently at all of them. It's insulting to Americans of all races to suggest that there are jobs that Americans wont do. If we start believing that kind of degrading hogwash it will diminish us as a people. And what about minority workers in my hometown? They were almost all college professors; We were all proud of that too.

It will be very difficult to create 14 million jobs when
the bulk of American industry is gone. First, they outsourced
most of our jobs to countries with a low labor cost, like India and China. Then as time went on. the few jobs that are left here are being offered to illegals since they too, are willing to work for less. So it's bad enough that we lost millions of jobs to outsourcing, now American companies, the
few that are left here, prefer to hire illegals. This is what is called, "a lose - lose situation" and Congress is in on it.

I worked for years in a potato shipping distributor. When i first started there were mostly caucasians. Then as the years went by more illegals were being hired. Since I have retired there are only Spanish speaking workers who are 99% illegal.

NumbersUSA Moderator: Regardless of the percentage who are illegal, every illegal workers takes a job that could otherwise go to a legal worker of any race. The mostly Spanish-speaking workers who are their now are likely accepting lower wages and worse working conditions thanks to the availability of illegal workers.

I can remember growing up in the late 1950's how my grandmother worked her tail off doing menial work as the head cook in a small drug store. She baked pies on the side and sold them for extra money. People back then took what they could get for employment and they were very grateful to get it. We didn’t have a bunch of “Illegal Immigrants” for heir to pay under the table for their labor. People need to wake up and realize that being anti-illegal immigrant is not a racial or hate attitude, it is an economic one in which “We” need to focus and fix properly.

Obama keeps talking about change. Well, change is not giving amnesty to people who break the law, including the employers that hire them. With 14 million legal Americans out of work, our President should be concerned about them but I guess change means that if you are in the country illegally, you maybe can become a citizen.

The politicians and the pro amnesty people have been using the illegals do the jobs that Americans will not do for years. But their argument is false because when you visit these small towns like Greenfield or any small town, that is the proof of people of many colors who are American citizens would do the work for a fair wage. The President, Congress needs to be concerned about our legal citizens and not about pandering to special interests groups whose agenda is for illegal aliens.

Ditto all the small towns in this area that's about 40 minutes south of the Wisconsin Dells.

Now if only we can get the dairy farmers to stop whining about never having enough illegals to milk their cows . . .