My hometown of Berwick, PA was once a thriving manufacturing town. There were 30,000 people employed at American Car and Foundry, which used to manufacture bombs, tanks and railroad cars during the war.

There were also many clothing and shoe manufacturers in town which employed several thousand people.

Since the signing of the NAFTA agreement, every one of those businesses is GONE! G-O-N-E!!!

There are thousands of unemployed people there with no hope of finding work since a lot of them are above 50 years of age and the fact that it is a rural/semi-rural area.

YET, there are scores of illegals coming into that same town collecting welfare and living in "HUD" homes which were lost by decent retirees living on a fixed income who could no longer afford their property taxes due to the increase in oil, gas, food, and cuts in their pensions and healthcare!

I go home every few months to visit my parents and it makes my want to cry. The once-thriving town is a virtual ghost town. No more men walking down the street with their hardhats and lunch boxes, no, now it's full of illegals sitting on the front porches of the houses OUR TAX DOLLARS PAY FOR and selling meth!

When are the people going to stand up and fight?! Our government is not for the american people, only for lining their pockets at our expense and getting re-elected!

There are people who are willing to work in factories, and you can find them in every small town in pa!

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NumbersUSA Moderator: The good news, Dana, is that the report is an old one. You and other NumbersUSA members helped defeat that bill. This Congress has not brought a comprehensive immigration increase and legalization bill to the floor -- yet. Sen. Schumer has promised to introduce one (although he has delayed introduction multiple times).

As an African-American who is well aware of Hispanic heritage I am especially proud of Mexican Americans who have worked hard like me to achieve their goals legally. They tell me all the time their respect for laws and this country. No one likes a cheater no matter who they are and someone who cuts in line and demands rights is unbelievable. White America is the most generous giving people on earth. They love law abiding people who do not cheat.

Stephen thanks, my husband and Iam of Mexican origin, Iam redident legal and my husband is Citizen we have 3 daughters. To respect the laws is what has made great to this country.

Thanks Richard, I am agreement with you in the urgent need to control illegal immigration. It worries me about the future of this country. I do not want that the United States to become like the other countries of America. Please do not think that all the Hispanics are equal, as in all the races and nationalities there are good and bad people. Among the hispanics there are many people who respect the laws and are very good citizens. -----------------------------------------------------------------Gracias Richard, estoy de acuerdo con ustedes en lo urgente que es controlar la inmigracion ilegal. Me preocupa el Futuro de el pais, no quiero que se convierta igual a los demas paises de America., Por favor no piensen que todos los hispanos somos iguales, como en todas las razas y nacionalidades, habemos gente buena y mala, y hay mucha gente que nos gusta respetar las leyes, y ser muy buenos ciudadanos.

Caroline, you are right, articles written about this leave the impression that these people may have been fired because they made some clerical error. Oops, I seem to have accidentally misplaced my citizenship.

Employment audits followed by mandatory terminations may have real advantages over the Bush administration's raids. The biggest is that they require far less manpower, so more can be carried out. They don't generate any more personal trauma for those fired than 7 million Americans have already experienced in this recession. I think that is fair, because these really are not evil people. And the net effect is probably the same. Deporting people across our porous border does little good. They can be back in a week if they want to be. We need real border control, but even with that, the only effective deterrent to illegal immigration would still be eliminating jobs. And that will work. People don't realize that many of the immigrants in the last big wave a hundred years ago went home when they discovered that they couldn't find steady jobs. And they were legal immigrants with an ocean to cross.

The other important thing about this story is that there are suddenly 1800 jobs for legal workers in the depths of the recession. That should be celebrated by the press as they would celebrate the opening of a factory, as the best employment news in a year.

American Apparel has a lot of nerve when the put the "Made in the USA" label in their clothes. They might have been physically made here but the purpose of Country of Origin lables was so that people could know that they were buying products that created jobs for Americans. Their stuff might as well have been made in some other country for all the good it does American workers.

I actually wrote an email to American Apparel concerning this very topic and instead of being apologetic, they were defending there actions of hiring illegals.