Economy stirring illegal immigration tempest?

Rising unemployment leaves both citizens, aliens battling for jobs News reports around the country tell of illegal aliens struggling to find work in a slumping economy and some workers thinking about returning home; but at least one analyst is warning that "hostility" between unemployed citizens and out-of-work immigrants is more likely to strike first. Jim Gilchrist is founder of the Minuteman Project, an organization that advocates for enforcement of U.S. immigration law. Gilchrist told WND that illegal immigrants may be out of work, but that doesn't mean they're re-crossing the border. "It's not the reverse exodus, the repatriation back to their homelands, that the media or government bureaucrats might want you to think it is," Gilchrist warned. "There are still 3 to 4 million illegal aliens entering this country every year and not going home." The Wall Street Journal reported last week on the story of a Hollywood job center that is seeing an increase of all sorts of people seeking jobs. "Everybody is coming to look for work," Rene Jemio, outreach coordinator for the hiring hall, told the Journal. "It's not just your average immigrant anymore; it's African-Americans and whites, too." "For the first time in a decade," reports the Journal, "unskilled immigrants are competing with Americans for work." READ FULL STORY
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