Frankfort, IN

Recent news account about the issues that Frankfort, IN is having with illegal aliens did not address the main reason that these problems are occurring. These problems resulted from the recruitment of illegal aliens by the employers of Frankfort. Consistently, businesses get a pass when illegal immigration is discussed.

I remember the ridiculous 1986 amnesty by Reagan. I also remember how employers were supposed to ensure that the employees they hired were United States citizens. I also remember, in the late (80's) thinking that maybe the government was actually going to be serious about enforcing citizenship as it related to employment. But certain employers quickly found out that no enforcement would be forthcoming and they began recruiting illegal aliens throughout the Great Plains, Midwest and other parts of the country. Subsequently, whole factories and large portions of several industries began to be dominated by illegal aliens, at much lower wages. The importation of these illegal aliens has had an impact on many working Americans who find that the jobs that used to have been illegally taken from them. At the same time, they see that their government wants to reward the very companies and illegal aliens who took their jobs by continuously proposing comprehensive immigration reform. Same song, different verse.

But as long as businesses are singing a happy tune, we should too, right?