The idea that a modern society like ours requires the ministrations of foreign workers, because there is no other way to do get these jobs done, smacks of the apocryphal quote from a 19th-century patent commissioner: “Everything that can be invented has been invented.”http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/markoped010704.htmlBy Mark Krikorian, of the Center for Immigration Studies, in National Review, January 7, 2004