January 6, 2008

800 Jobs Open in Springfield, Tennessee, For Americans and Legal Immigrants

More than a thousand illegal immigrants have high-tailed it out of Springfield, Tenn, - including 800 employed at a single factory - after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement began enforcing the law the prohibits employers from employing illegals. But Stacey Campfield is right about the headline on the paper's story, "Immigration raids hit Springfield hard." Springfield is portrayed as the victim of enforcement of the nation's laws against illegal immigration. That's backwards. Fault lies not with ICE doing its job, but with the illegal immigrants themselves, and with the employers that hired them.