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Last night I was listening to an alternative news segment about immigration. It seems that the government has compiled a database of immigrants who are here legally, and is making the database available for corporations to cross reference when hiring a new employee. The idea seemed pretty reasonable to me until they mentioned that Dunkin' Donuts is the latest corporation to adhere to this method.

Sweet mother of the lord! Just about every D&D I go is staffed at about 90% with people who hardly speak a lick of English, and you just know they're not here on anything more than a tourist Visa. Now if these people's records are examined, not only will they be terminated, but they will be ineligible to work again; blacklisted. The current set-up has at least a two-year turn around before the aliens can become official citizens. It's kind of absurd. The smartest thing to do with the whole debacle is to grandfather in the illegals, and start implementing a better system.

The Dunkin' Donuts effect wouldn't matter so much if there were a bunch of college kids out looking for summer work, but folks, we are in a full employment economy right now in most regions, so basically every position is filled. If you start firing illegals all willy-nilly, you're going to be faced with more homeless, more welfare, and higher taxes to compensate for that.

Right now the National Guard is watching the border in Arizona, but how does that solve the 'other' immigration problem, which is when Luz, who lives in the Bronx flies her cousin Jorge into the country for a 'visit' and he just ends up staying here? How, I ask you, will the government sort that problem out?

Beware ye coffee drinkers! Beware of long lines at understaffed Dunkin Donuts! McDonald's iced coffee is pretty much the bomb right now, I'm jumping ship.



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