Print
E-mail
Share
digg
Newsvine
Facebook
Stumble
Technorati
reddit
Fark
twitterLetter: Illegal workers help economy
Sunday, July 2, 2000 | 10:45 a.m.
Nonetheless this segment of our community, particularly the much-maligned illegal aliens who endure discrimination and harassment by unscrupulous employers, have and are contributing to our economic growth and prosperity. In fact, the AFL-CIO and business leaders recently pushed Congress to grant general amnesty to illegal workers as well as to repeal the law which makes it a crime for an employer to hire an undocumented worker.
Despite what disgruntled xenophobes may think or say about our demographic changes, immigrants are business owners, investors, workers, taxpayers and consumers. Most national economists would agree on this point. Mr. O'Callaghan and the Las Vegas Interfaith Council should be applauded for addressing this matter.
EDWARD OCHOA
President Ochoa Consulting Services
archive
- Most Read
- Discussed
- Most E-mailed
- Harrah’s working on plan to take over Planet Hollywood
- Judge’s divorce filing follows arrest of her husband, a lawyer
- ‘DWTS’ champ Donny Osmond still deft afoot in return to Flamingo
- Task force taking down mortgage scammers, one at a time
- Two years after Sports Illustrated feature, Bellfield says gamble paid off
- Contractors make another bid for Fontainebleau
- Martha Stewart has no business criticizing Palin
- UNLV zaps Holy Cross, 80-59
- Shooting in parking lot of CVS leaves man dead
- Las Vegas expecting more visitors this Thanksgiving
Blogs
The Kats Report
Could a savior of shuttered Las Vegas Art Museum be ... Peter Max? (3 Comments)
For Paul Stanley and KISS, rock and roll is not over (3 Comments)
Twenty years ago today, Human Nature took root on the farm (1 Comment)
Robin Leach's Las Vegas Celebrity Watch
Photo Gallery: Donny Osmond’s triumphant return to the Flamingo
The Kats Report
'DWTS' champ Donny Osmond still deft afoot in return to Flamingo (8 Comments)
Politics: The Early Line
Meeting of GOP governors draws challengers, not Gibbons (3 Comments)
Politics: Ralston's Flash
Oscar loves forcing developers to sign labor peace agreements, Culinary loves the city's downtown plans and all is forgiven (7 Comments)
Calendar »
- 27 Fri
- 28 Sat
- 29 Sun
- 30 Mon
- 1 Tue
-
Bill Cosby at Treasure Island
Treasure Island Theatre
-
The Las Vegas Locomotives vs. the Florida Tuskers
Sam Boyd Stadium
-
Papa Roach at the House of Blues
House of Blues | 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.
-
Tuff-N-Uff at the Orleans
Mardi Gras Room | 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
-
David Spade at the Venetian
The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino
The Sun
Locally owned and independent for more than 50 years.
