We’d better talk about border control

“Yes, newcomers everywhere tend to concentrate in less-skilled jobs, and food-service jobs are generally less-skilled jobs. Everyone has to start somewhere, and starting somewhere in the workplace is surely better than expecting welfare. Further, of course, many if not most people of Hispanic descent in the United States are native-born citizens _ particularly Puerto Ricans, of whom there are many in Connecticut, even if ignorant journalism persists in observing that someone “came to the United States from Puerto Rico,” as if Puerto Rico had not been a U.S. possession since 1898 and Puerto Ricans had not been U.S. citizens since 1917.

And, yes, the Immigration Control group’s survey of 152 McDonald’s restaurants in Connecticut was worse than unscientific; it classified the ethnicity of restaurant employees by guesswork. No one was interviewed….”

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