American businesses have shed 6.9 million jobs in the past 20 months (the length of the current economic depression). During this same time period, American businesses have imported 2.4 million workers. While American workers are feeling the pinch, American businesses have not been forced to hire American workers. Clearly, the Congress has been protecting American businesses instead of American workers.

According to the New York Times, some Americans are feeling the pinch more than others: "...unemployment is on the rise, jumping from 9.4% in July to 9.7% in August. For several demographic groups, the unemployment rate is already in double digits, including men (10.1%), Hispanics (13%), African-Americans (15.1%) and teenagers (25.5%). In all, 14.9 million workers are now jobless, of which fully one-third have been out of work for more than six months, the highest level of long-term unemployment by far in any post World War II recession."

And 8 million illegal aliens hold American jobs.

from NumbersUSA:

NEW PERMANENT & TEMPORARY WORK PERMITS -- 160,000 PER MONTH

951,247

That is the number of PERMANENT work permits given in the form of green cards to working-age immigrants over the 12-month period.

(SOURCE: U.S. Office of Immigration Statistics)

None of these people has ever gotten a green card before.

. Every year, our federal government hands out PERMANENT access to U.S. jobs to nearly a million foreign adults through our legal immigration system. In 2008 while our economy was suffering the worst collapse since the Great Depression, our government continued to flood the occupations of beleaguered U.S. workers at this incredible pace.

We should just make them all citizens! from canada to argentina!

13% unemployment among Hispanic Americans and 15% unemployment among African Americans is apparently too LOW a figure for some people. What could be their motivation?

The Border Guard is investigating a number of possible cases of arranging illegal immigration in the Kymenlaakso and Loviisa areas of south-eastern Finland. Officials suspect restaurateurs of bringing in illegal workers from abroad on several occasions.

The restaurant owners are suspected of arranging cheap labour for themselves in this manner over a period of several years.

The restaurants in question are foreign-owned and represent the low end of the price spectrum, says Lt. Jan Sundell of the Border Guard, who is heading the investigation.

He declined to say which countries the cheap labourers come from.

As part of the probe, the Border Guard, Kymenlaakso Police and tax authorities made joint raids on several restaurants in the Kotka and Hamina areas on Wednesday.

Last spring, they carried out searches of homes in Loviisa and Porvoo based on similar suspicions.