More bashing of Hispanics...

Mr James E Wyatt has written in to the Journal-Patriot to complain about several things (some of which I agree with) but can't resist saying

The only thing the Hispanics are helping in this country themselves, to free government benefits so they can live like kings. Also, they are helping Mr. Bush to destroy middle class Americans.

I am a little curious about this. Most of the Hispanics are illegal, which means they can help themselves to no government freebies of any sort. If they are employed by a legitimate business like Tysons (of course Tysons does not knowingly hire illegals) then they must be using a false social security number: so they pay the Social Security tax, but get no benefits. As for living like kings, I haven't seen much of that. And as for destroying the middle class, how many middle class Wilkes county people are trying for the same jobs Hispanics get? It is the ability to keep wages low for working class people that may be in question here, but that generally keeps middle class people employed. At Tysons, for example, which does hire many Hispanics (though only ones with proper documentation), it is the Anglo population that seems to get the management and supervisory jobs. And, of course, the middle class people running the filling stations, grocery stores, car dealerships, Wal-Mart, etc that skim off their fair share of the Hispanics pay.

Without the cheap labor, where do you think Tysons would be? Or any other number of little businesses catering to Hispanics? Their money circulates as well as anyone's and they pay taxes as well. I haven't noticed anyone in local government proposing to shut any of them down. But, I could be wrong.