[cowhead]

honestly I don't know much about the immigration issue from a border dwellers perspective.. and after all we are all illegal immigrants as such (although I don't really want to start in on that, and aside from that conquest of foriegn lands has always been a speciality of the human race).. anyway! 'round here (well Kansas City anyway) it has become very very difficult to find work in foodservice, as the owners are mostly syphoning the work off to people who will work for 1/2 as much and in all honesty work about 30% harder... which in some repspects I'm okay with.. on a side note when I lived in south carolina our dishwasher Mario, was an illegal alien.. the weird thing is that back in Brazil he had been a radio DJ..and he couldn't make enough there, so he and his pregnant wife snuck into this country and worked their asses off for about two years and then went home again.. and therein lies my problem.. if it came right down to 'brass tacks' I would do the same thingm if the legal entry into a country was not possible. I don't like that it does happen, however.. it does and in some cases I don't disagree with it.

oh and on another side note, about 5 years ago I was going to move to Ireland, had a Job lined up and everything, the thing is that I couldn't get a work Visa, but I really thought about going anyway.. and the Business that was going to hire me said 'oh, well that won't be a problem.. we'll pay you in cash' so.. I dunno it's an odd situation.