We have said this many times before, but it bears repeating. There is an incredibly high number of illegal aliens in America. For years We have heard the media tell us that illegals do work that “Americans simply will not do.”

We know that there are jobs that Americans will not do, but working at McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell and just about every other fast food place is not one of them. Yet these fast food chains all use illegal immigrants in their work places.

The Franchise owners claim that their franchisees do not use illegal help, yet there are many of these establishments where, when ordering food at the drive through, the person on the other end speaks little or no English. We know that not speaking English does not make them illegal immigrants by default, but it does make one wonder.

Now times are tough, and people need jobs. While watching CNN the other day, they said that Immigration reform would be a major election issue in the the 2012 elections. One thing is clear. Americans cannot absorb everyone into the job pool in the current economic situation. My kids cannot find jobs in any fast food establishment. There are no entry level jobs anywhere her in Southern California.

Perhaps now people might understand what we have been saying for years here at the brokencountry. It has nothing to do with racism. We have said it before, if I were in a foreign land and saw how much greener the grass was on the other side of the fence, I would hop the fence.

This is not the fault of the illegal immigrant. It is the fault of the U.S. government for not doing anything to stop illegal immigration. Republicans and their corporate buddies exploit the cheap labor, and democrats want them here for the almighty votes. Meanwhile the illegal immigrant is exploited and denied the rights afforded to U.S. citizens. Something has to give. Ed.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. economic recession has taken a particularly heavy toll on young Americans, with a record one out five black men aged 20 to 24 neither working nor in school, according to research released on Tuesday.

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Teenagers have found it significantly harder to get a job since the recession began in late 2007, with black youths and young people from low-income families faring the worst, wrote Andrew Sum of Northeastern University in Boston, a employment researcher commissioned by the Chicago Urban League and the Alternative Schools Network.

“Low-income and minority youth, who depended on part-time jobs as a significant stepping stone to future employment, have been forced out of the job market and economically marginalized,” Herman Brewer of the Chicago Urban League said in a statement.

Overall, 26 percent of American teenagers aged 16 to 19 had jobs in late 2009, said the report, which was based on U.S. Census Bureau data. That figure is a record low since statistics began to be kept in 1948, the researchers said.

Employment counts the number of people with a job as a percentage of the entire work force. By contrast, the unemployment rate — which stood at 10 percent in December in the United States — does not include people who have grown discouraged and stopped looking for work.

Joblessness was particularly rife among high school dropouts aged 16 to 24 who were neither in school nor holding a job, the report said. Family income also had a influence on joblessness.

Only 13 percent of low-income black teenagers in Illinois held a job in 2008 compared with 48 percent of more affluent white, non-Hispanic teens.

The “disconnection rate” — Americans aged 20 to 24 who were neither in school nor working — jumped to 28 percent last year from 17 percent in 2007.

“If you included those in prison it would be a couple of points higher,” the report’s co-author Joseph McLaughlin of Northeastern.

Among the proposals the report supported were government-funded jobs programs directed at the young, additional funding to help re-enroll school dropouts, and government-funded expansions of work internships.

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